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Andreas Stargard, Paul Hastings; and John Oxenham, Nortons Inc.
9 pages

This paper examines the role that the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) plays as a multi-national organization that enforces competition law.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: Africa, Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Ariel ezraChI, Director, University of Oxford Centrefor Competition Law and Policy
Hassan Qaqaya, Head, UNCTAD Competition and Consumer Policies Branch
7 pages

This initiative is dedicated to information exchange between competition agencies,
as part of its ongoing work on capacity building and international cooperation.

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Interest Area: Compliance and Ethics
Source: Resource Library
Region: Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, United States
Laurie Adamson

Admission to practice law in Switzerland takes several years. The candidate needs to obtain an undergraduate and a graduate law degree from a Swiss university, which can take five years. In order to become a lawyer, candidates must train for at least one year in Swiss law firms and tribunals, and they must also pass a bar examination on theoretical and practical aspects of the law. Switzerland-native Emmanuel Grand, some- what of an iconoclast, took the route less traveled, though no less rigorous.

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Interest Area: Compliance and Ethics
Source: ACC Docket
James A. Nortz

The author contrasts two health clubs — one is focused primarily on maximizing profits while the other is focused primarily on helping people live healthier lives— as a way to illustrate that an organization’s defined purpose can have a profound impact on every aspect of the business.

This article provides answers to questions, when inside counsel represent corporate affiliates: (a) under what circumstances must they consider the propriety, under DR 5-105 and DR 5-108, of representing or continuing to represent those affiliates? (b) may a conflict between those affiliates be waived? (c) are there steps that can be taken in advance that will enhance the possibility that inside counsel may continue to represent some or all of the affiliates after a conflict arises?

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Interest Area: Compliance and Ethics
Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
Andres Hidalgo, Partner, Llordea Camacho & Co.

This Top Ten explores Anti-Trust Concerns in M&A Transactions in Colombia

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Source: Resource Library
Region: Colombia
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee

This is a criminal enforcement agreement between the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee/Department of Justice and DOJ Pilot Travel Centers LLC.

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Interest Area: Compliance and Ethics
Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
James A. Nortz

Compliance and ethics risks are unique because they are the only enterprise risks driven entirely by the behavior of your directors, employees and agents. To effectively manage your compliance and ethics risks, you must have a working model of organizational behavior and a means of measuring key factors that drive behavior.

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Interest Area: Compliance and Ethics
Source: ACC Docket
Paul Godlewski, Thomson Reuters U.S. Legal, Corporate Segment, Fraud & Investigative Solutions

The following are ten findings, pulled from two surveys, reveal both surprising and not-so-surprising insights for General Counsels and their Compliance officers pertaining to Anti-Money Laundering and Compliance issues in the United States.

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Interest Area: Compliance and Ethics
Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
LexMundi

An effective anti-corruption program deters the risk of wrongdoing, positively affects corporate culture, improves the company’s relationship with regulatory authorities and provides the company with options for remedial measures should they need to be undertaken quickly. Read this article to learn how to achieve these benefits.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: United Kingdom, United States
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