Vol.13, No. 50, Winter 2020

On April 30, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division (the “DOJ”) published updated guidance (the “DOJ Guidance”) on the evaluation of a company’s corporate compliance program (a “CCP”)....Read more

Alike industrial revolutions, the digital revolution has deeply impacted our social, economic and technological models. We are nevertheless only on the brink of great overturns that will challenge our uses...Read more

Blockchain technologies have emerged as a disruptive way of executing business processes in decentralised environments. It was originally created to facilitate cryptocurrency transactions (such as Bitcoin), which are currently facing...Read more

Power Exchanges (PX) have been at the cornerstone of the liberalisation of the wholesale electricity market in the 1990s and then of the integration of the single internal electricity market...Read more

Arbitration is not a new concept, in fact it has been used for centuries, with Plato writing about arbitration amongst the ancient Greeks. As international trade and commerce have grown...Read more

Having set out my perspective on the impact and implications of artificial intelligence, machine learning and technology on the legal profession in Asia, and having highlighted the need for...Read more

All people should, by virtue of their essential humanity, enjoy all human rights. Exceptional distinctions, for example between citizens and non-citizens, can be made only if they serve a legitimate...Read more

In the past decade, much has changed for those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or queer (LGBTQ). LGBTQ characters are frequently featured in movies, broadcast and cable television...Read more

Currently, the reputation is one of the most precious assets for a company and because of that the companies are becoming more rigor and not tolerating behaviors that...Read more

In contrast to other jurisdictions, German patent law still provides for automatic injunctions in case of patent infringement. In other words, injunctive relief is not a discretionary remedy, but must...Read more

This article discusses the corporate attorney-client privilege as applied in the United States. As in the United States, other common law countries apply the privilege to in-house counsel. The attorney-client...Read more

Capability maturity model (CMMI) has been developed as an industry standard for software service delivery since almost 25 years. The model provides guidelines to build, improve and measure capabilities and...Read more

This paper reviews certain complexities related to the post-acquisition integration process, focusing on the legal corporate function and other departments dedicated to risk prevention. Study after study has shown that...Read more

When an international company grows through the acquisition of small independently run businesses, ingrained and traditional procedures are not easily standardized. In the case at hand, standardizing sales terms and...Read more

The last century had witnessed a number of efforts to harmonise the rules on carriage by sea through international conventions, which have continued in this century. These conventions are Hague...Read more

In this article we discuss how our work putting a better understanding of consumers at the heart of everything we do and our work readying Barclays for Open Finance, incentivised...Read more

On 31 January 2020, aerospace giant Airbus SE entered into coordinated agreements with the French, UK and US authorities in the largest corruption enforcement action in history. The company was...Read more

In a context where companies are facing increasingly complex regulatory requirements, more stringent legal enforcement restrictions and NGO activism (including ethical and environmental), the compliance part of the M&A due...Read more