Discusses how vital it is to implement a solid electronic information retention system and provides practice pointers for choosing an appropriate methodology to fit your company's budget.
In this guide, authored by Lex Mundi contributors, the basic legislative and economic framework of Japan is explained. Learn more about Japan's investment policies, trademarks, exchange controls, structures of business and more in this informative article.
This is a sample employment agreement between the company and its executive.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide to a Q&A that gives an overview of the legal system; foreign investment, including restrictions, currency regulations and incentives; and business vehicles and their relevant restrictions and liabilities in Germany.
This is a sample company employee handbook.
This InfoPAK will discuss the role of a compliance program in a corporation’s organizational structure, the various options the corporation has when deciding who will lead the program, and the impact of each on the program’s operations.
These Rules and Regulations provide participants (regulated persons) in the capital market with more precise notice of what is expected of them, what conduct will be sanctioned and also promotes fairness and equality of treatment among similarly situated persons.
In this session, we will cover important recent U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) developments, rulemaking and enforcement trends. We will update our Dodd-Frank scorecards and review the most significant recently adopted and proposed rules. The session will also cover important lessons from the 2013 proxy season, with a particular focus on stockholder activism, and updates in the auditing and accounting arena — calling out hot spots in SEC accounting reviews. This will be a fast-moving session that assumes participants have a working knowledge of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act.
Discusses how the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program can be of great benefit to your legal department, if your company does business with the federal government, and identifies best practices to mitigate the risks associated with obligations under FSS contracts.
Australia has been through a remarkable period of tort reform. Major reforms of the liability system have been implemented in an extraordinarily short period of time, compared to the usual slow pace of legislative change. If you are a prospective defendant, you should be aware of some important consequences of these changes when facing litigation in Australia. The old rules and assumptions regarding the value of a claim may not necessarily apply.