Vol. 2, No. 6, Winter 2009

Participating in virtual worlds (‘VWs’) is big entertainment and big business. Given the enormous and diverse participation in these computer generated environments, VWs offer an exciting new channel for intellectual...Read more

The Directive 2004/18/EC on “the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts” was approved by the European Parliament Council on...Read more

Mergers and acquisitions represent a dynamic process of corporate culture and strategy. Empirical evidence indicates a high rate of failure of M&A’s to create value for the shareholders of the...Read more

KCC (Kent County Council) Legal Services has thrown off the traditional mantle of public sector lawyers. Whilst remaining faithful to the needs of our core corporate client, we have undergone...Read more

For more than ten years I have been working as a lawyer in the telecommunications industry (I will stick to the traditional term “telecoms/telecommunications” instead of the only recently introduced...Read more

In the second article of the series highlighting practices of different countries followed as compared to the Corporate Governance Code in India, we are presenting in this Article Corporate Governance...Read more

Government contracts are complex instruments that require rigour, discipline and foresight well beyond the signature and execution of the deal. These contracts have unique obligations and duties not generally intuitive,...Read more

I recall that my strict adherence to Solicitors Code of Conduct by describing my employers as “my client” , in the conduct of written correspondence on behalf of my employers,...Read more

Based on Canon Europe’s experience of implementing a SOX-compliant whistle-blower policy, this paper looks at how US-style whistle-blower policies in Europe can clash with various national laws (mainly data protection)...Read more

Commercial litigation requires speed and cost effectiveness. Businessmen need to see their differences settled as quickly as possible and with the least amount of expense. The complexity of disputes in...Read more

General Counsel today, in addition to the traditional myriad of responsibilities, are business unit managers, in much the same way as line management. Accordingly, General Counsel are also responsible for...Read more

Romania, like most of the European countries, is a civil law jurisdiction. The main sources of Romanian law are the Constitution, the Acts of the Parliament, international treaties having direct...Read more

Perceptions of remuneration and reward can play an important role in employee behaviours, motivation, engagement, performance, retention and ultimately organisational productivity. They can also call into question the alignment between...Read more

Open source software has defied its sceptics and become a big business. Governments at the national, state and local level across the globe are requiring open source in their projects....Read more

The role of the regulatory affairs (and antitrust) department in a vertically integrated company operating in highly regulated markets is by definition a central one. Most of the activities carried...Read more

A man cannot serve two masters. One will invariably take a free ride at the expense of the other. A company manager is the custodian of his company’s assets. He...Read more

Law schools usually teach future lawyers to work based on a very important tool: case law, that is, the collection of reported cases and their decisions that throughout the years...Read more

Current stresses in markets and the daily industry and worldwide financial developments generated by such stresses raise specific challenges for corporate counsel which I have attempted to detail below in...Read more