Vol.16, No. 62, Winter 2023
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Vol.16, No. 62, Winter 2023
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Contents
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Negotiating Commercial Agreements

Home advantage is an oft-quoted adage which might work well in the sports world, but might be a false friend in negotiations. In blunt terms, it’s really hard to walk...Read more
Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
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Incentives by the Government of India for promoting Intellectual Property Rights
With phenomenal growth of the Indian economy, it is vital that Intellectual Property (IP) Rights are generated in India and then legally protected and exploited. IPs are increasingly becoming crucial...Read more
Safir Anand
Senior Partner and Head of Trademarks, Contractual & Commercial IP, Anand and Anand, India
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Don’t Waste All your Lawyer’s Time on Legal Matters
Hire In-House General Counsel, Because You are Adding Four Key Workhorses All in One
1. A broad technical expert in all the engineering and science aspects of your company.
2. An unconventional...Read more
Paul Grahovac
Building Envelope Codes, Standards and Field Support, General Counsel, Director of New Business Develo, PROSOCO Inc, USA
Page 8185
Immigration - Related Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions: Impact on Work Visas and Permanent Immigration Processes – United States


As global mergers and acquisitions are forecasted to continue strong in 2023, albeit more frequent and smaller in size, an informed in-house counsel must understand how these transactions and resulting...Read more

Mark Girgis
Chief Legal Officer, Hypertec Group, Canada

Olga Prygoda
Solicitor, Bcf, Canada

Julie Lessard
Partner, Bcf, Canada
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How to Sustain the Unstainable - Coping With a Blizzard of Demands

Despite the long hours and relatively high rates of burn out within the legal profession, there is often still a lack of support for in house lawyers working under extreme...Read more

Richard Reade
General Counsel, Coats Group, UK
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The Inner Development Goals – A Framework of transformative Skills Needed to Confront Implicit Cognitive Biases in International Arbitration

The present paper has been inspired by the invitation made by Claudia Salomon, the President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration, to join her on the...Read more

Edoardo Marcenaro
Former Head of Legal & Corporate Affairs, Enel Grids srl, Italy
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My aim is to consider the legal regulation of the public corporation and its governance from the perspective of natural law theory. There are many theories of natural law that...Read more
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Michael Ambrosio
Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law, USA
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Digital Content Consumption at the Time of Web 2.0. 
TV companies in Europe lost €3.21 billion in 2021 because of people using illegal streaming sites to watch TV, that’s a number revealed by a study published by Bournemouth University....Read more

Christine Maury-Panis
EVP, General Counsel and Public Affairs, Viaccess S.A, France
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No Contract is an Island
Contract liability and liability under a contract can be seen as two separate concepts. The former covers liabilities arising under contract law; the latter covers all the actual and potential...Read more
Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
Page 8245
Russian Counter-Sanctions
In response to Russian “special military operation in Ukraine” (known in the EU and the USA as “Russian invasion of Ukraine”), starting from February 2022, the European Union, the United...Read more

Vladislav Gorobinskiy
Head of the Legal Support Department for International Projects, Mediator, New Investment Group LLC, Russia
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Are Lawyers A Shoo-In for Sustainability?
In their 2021 Focus 15 Report, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) described sustainability as a growing business concern that has become a strategic priority. Much of this increased importance is...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer, Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
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Compliance Risk Based Approach: Mission Impossible?

We are living in times where growth at all costs tends to be outdated. Companies have started shifting their strategies from fueling short term profits at unsustainable levels to building...Read more

Camélia Gardot
Senior Director of Compliance, Hertz, France

Isabelle Rust
Head of Third Party Compliance Management, Airbus Defence and Space, Germany
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What Every Lawyer Should Know About Digital Forensics
Retaining a subject matter expert should provide you with not just the sound analysis of the technical subject but also an education for you and perhaps a judge and jury....Read more

Jon Berryhill
President & COO, Berryhill Computer Forensics Inc., USA
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Creating Effective and Sustainable Outside Counsel Relationships
One of the most important challenges facing international in-house counsel is building and sustaining effective relationships with outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions. By “effective” I mean those which result in...Read more

Michael Fawlk
Founder & CEO, Exemplify Consulting LLC, Switzerland
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The Interpretation of EU States National Legislation Through the Lens of EU Directives
If, in the initial legislative stages of the European Coal and Steel Community the decisions addressed directly to the enterprises that activated in this field were the most used instruments,...Read more

Dan Degan
Lawyer Romania and Adriatic Region, Viatris, Romania
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Patent law differs in each country, but there are some important equitable doctrines that apply across borders. One such a doctrine is prosecution history estoppel.
The term Estoppel ...Read more
Shafaq Akhtar
Other, University of Law, UK

Roy Girasa
Professor of Law, Pace University, USA

Madelein Kleyn
CEO, Mad K IP Consulting (Pty) Ltd, South Africa

Mark McCareins
General Counsel, Metals Service Center Institute, USA
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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property and Judicial System
Stephen Hawking referred to artificial intelligence (AI) as a science that could help in resolving the issues that occupy humanity. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) considers AI...Read more

Vera Albino
Legal Manager - Trademark and Patent Attorney, Inventa, Portugal
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New Data Protection Bill in India
This article attempts to share key provisions of the Digital Data Protection Bill, 2022 that is set to bring new law on data privacy to life in India. Whilst it...Read more

Kiran Chitale
B.Com, LL.B., FCS, Pune, India, India