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Compliance Risk Assessment at Siemens
What has dental care to do with risk management?
Everybody knows that preventive measures like brushing your teeth twice a day, using dental floss daily and going to a dentist...Read more
Jan Hansen
Head of Compliance Strategy & Risk , Siemens AG, Germany
What You Need to Know about the United States International Trade Commission, Unfair Competition, and Protection of Intellectual Property
The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) is a federal administrative agency with investigative and legal powers over trade. It protects the domestic industry of the United States of America...Read more
Rodney Sparks
Senior Biotechnology Patent Counsel, University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group, USA
FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) Requirements. Russian Aspects
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is quite a popular topic in legal society at this time. Although due to the complexity of regulation and volume of information there...Read more
Stella Gukova
Head of Legal and Compliance, JCS Sumitomo Mitsui Rus Bank, Russian Federation
Digital Media in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Oportunities and Legal Challenges
The term digital media is widely understood. According to the open-access encyclopedia Wikipedia digital media shall mean a “form of electronic media where data are stored in digital (as opposed...Read more
Marc Bauer
Legal Director, AMGEN (Europe) GmbH, Switzerland
Developing Effective Processes to Manage Risk in M&A Transactions
By their very nature, merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions can be unwieldy and complicated. The number of people involved and the different functional areas involved seem to grow exponentially as...Read more
Derek Devgun
Senior Legal Specialist Mergers and Acquisitions, Medtronic Inc., USA
The Rule of Corporate Counsel
Australia has seen a significant growth in the number of corporate counsel over the last 20 years. Companies continue to recognise the value of cultivating legal expertise internally, from better...Read more
Jon Downes
General Counsel and Company Secretary, Ace Group, Australia
Benchmarking
In practise, benchmarking is a comparison method in order to assess and/or to evaluate a performance making a comparison with others performances of the same type. The comparison can be...Read more
Marina Vitale
Regional Legal Counsel, Hewlett Packard, Italy
Commercial Communications to Consumers: Concerns and Considerations
Whilst marketing departments are one of the main pillars of commercial activity of those companies dealing with consumer clients, our European Union legislators sometimes show a lack of sectorial knowledge...Read more
Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain
The Potential of Impact: Kirtsaeng, dba Bluechristine99 v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. On In-House Legal Department Enforcement Strategies
The Supreme Court reaffirmed the limitations on copyright owners’ exclusive rights- via the First Sale Doctrine with its ruling in Kirtsaeng, dba Bluechristine99 v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc....Read more
Vanessa Soman
Vice President Associate Counsel, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., USA
Joseph Drayton
Partner, Cooley, USA
Jamie Melendez
In-house Counsel, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., USA
The Conception of Public Policy and its Applicability with Respect to Enforcement of Awards of International Commercial Arbitrations in the Russian Federation
One of the most important steps of arbitration is often the process of arbitral award's recognition and enforcement, this process as such sometimes may turn out to be not less...Read more
Svetlana Björkman
Associate Legal Counsel, Wärtsilä Finland oy, Finland