The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
This program will provide basic legal tips in foreign investment distribution agreements, dealer and agent relationships, labor agreements and antitrust and enforcement trends for doing business in Latin American countries. Other areas to be discussed are the challenges with the jointly and several liability in labor of distribution relationships and enforcement of foreign jurisdiction and foreign applicable law clauses in Latin American countries.
An overview of the NAFTA trade activity in the past 10 years. Includes review of NAFTA dispute settlements, trade levels between member nations, and history of the agreement.
Presented at the Global Corporate Counsel Association 2002 Annual Meeting in France. The program titled: WHAT EVERY IN-HOUSE LAWYER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS:
PROTECTING COMPANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
AND STRATEGIC NON-PUBLIC BUSINESS INFORMATION
Our panel of expert in-house counsel will provide a sound introduction to the methodologies for doing business in Mexico, Latin, and South America. The panel includes counsel who represent companies that regularly do business in these regions. Included in their presentation will be ideas for establishing a foothold, cultural considerations, advantages to the locations, and general contracting provisions, sending you home with a solid checklist of steps to follow to make inroads into the regions.
Conducting commercial business involves a multitude of risks, and rendering in-house services as a legal professional involves responsibility for decisions that affect the risk profile of your company. This session will examine significant areas of direct corporate risk: regulatory, product/service performance, compliance, reputation and financial, among others, as well as mechanisms for effectively managing such risks.
This session will focus on the experiences of the major business players in Latin America and their domestic and cross border product and services transactions, as well as financial operations, including raising capital (debt and equity) through the stock exchanges.
Purchasing international health benefits is an increasingly complex responsibility. Don’t be caught unaware. A wide variety of US laws and regulations (federal and state) and other jurisdictions’ regulations may apply to the coverage that employers purchase for their global employees. Understanding the compliance environment is the first step in developing a strategy to manage and minimize the risks associated with purchasing international benefits.
This article includes information regarding investing in Latin America (focus on Mexico), including cross-border distribution, joint venture agreements, NAFTA and the Inter-American Investment Corporation.
Annual Meeting 2006: Is Latin America an untapped market for your organization? If so, expanding business into the region can be a great benefit for your company. Knowing the rules of the game in advance can only make your foray there that much more successful. In this session, you will learn how to effectively manage government and media relations, labor and employment law issues unique to the region, including those related to ex-pats, conducting M&A activities, including dealing with competition law issues, and running operations in Latin America.