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In today's global economy, strategic alliances have taken center stage. Organizations of all shapes and sizes, across all geographic and industry sectors, are actively building partner-centric business models and designing partner-leveraged strategies. These corporate networks of alliance relationships pose some interesting legal challenges for in-house counsel. How are strategic alliances structured, negotiated and implemented? How should issues such as limitation of liability, protection of intellectual property and confidentiality be addressed?

An article reviewing changes in the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act regarding treatment of repeat offenders.

This powerpoint presentation on Managing Competition Law Risk by the law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin was presented to the ACC Ontario Chapter on Thursday, Jan 31, 2008

The Data Protection Directive requires anyone who handles personal information to comply with a number of important principles. Among them: ensure that the personal information is lawfully processed, accurate and up to date, processed in line with the individual’s rights, secure and not transferred to other countries without adequate protection.

As companies expand into new markets, move production facilities abroad, and deal with counterparties based in other countries, they can find their legal liabilities globalized. A straightforward domestic litigation can be complicated by an aggressive party filing countersuits in a variety of jurisdictions. Attend this session to explore the challenges to resolving a transnational dispute.

In the session, attendees will be divided into groups led by counsel of varying jurisdictions and will conduct the stages of investigating employee misconduct through a case study. The various stages of an investigation will be covered, including: planning the investigation, determining the scope, gathering the evidence, conducting witness interviews and reaching findings.

With its rapidly growing economy and expanding middle class, India has become an increasingly attractive market in which to invest and do business. While there has been a liberalization of the Indian economy, regulatory constraints and other challenges remain. Learn about the key bureaucratic, regulatory and legal considerations of making investments, creating joint ventures and distributing products in India, including protecting technology transfers to India and selecting suitable dispute resolution mechanisms.

Thissession will provide an opportunity to share ways on how to apply the optimized legal touch.

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) have been on the top of the agenda for management and in-house counsel during the last years and trade compliance may or may not be getting the attention merited by the current complexities of this area of law. This will certainly have an implication on the current trade compliance landscape and how in-house counsel should respond to it. This session will bring more clarity to the current status and provide concrete recommendations for your daily operations.

Perhaps no area of law varies as greatly in the global context as employment law. In some jurisdictions, laws can comparatively conflict and may appear largely unintuitive to an outsider. How can global company employment policies be written at a high enough level to apply across all regions, yet include a reasonable level of specificity to allow for regional variances in practice? Furthermore, how can global policies encompass the ever-growing mobile and outsourced workforce to ensure fair, consistent and legally-enforceable practice?

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