This brief article discusses who business associates are, what are some required elements of a business associate agreement, and how to manage risks of business associate agreements in the United States.
This article addresses those who are novices to the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (“UNIDROIT Principles”) or skeptics to using a different legal regime than (i) their home law or (ii), if they cannot impose their home law, to using something else than a ‘neutral’ state law such as English or Swiss national law.
Different rules and damages apply when a director resigns from their post in Germany. In this policy statement, those positions are clarified to better prepare companies for such an event.
While the Cybersecurity Regulations require several technical controls (e.g., monitoring network activity and implementing multi-factor authentication and encryption), most of the requirements involve instituting information governance (“IG”) practices and structures to manage cyber risks. In the following, we set out five steps which address the key IG issues and requirements that can help your organization come into compliance with the Cybersecurity Regulations.
This policy explanation delves into some FAQs for Tenant Company Administration guidelines.
Based on responses from 1,800 in-house counsel in 53 countries, the Global Perspectives: ACC In-house Trends Report covers trending topics such as the inside-outside counsel relationship, career mobility, professional development, department resource allocation, cybersecurity, professional privilege, and more.
This report summarizes the discussions among in-house counsel and leading experts at the 2016 Lex Mundi Emerging Africa Conference in Cape Town in March 2016. The wide range of topics discussed included underlying growth drivers and investment trends, implementing growth strategies in line with local development objectives, changing regulatory frameworks and structuring of transactions to satisfy broad stakeholder interests and public concerns.
This Top Ten gives ten key tips to avoid common risk allocation drafting pitfalls, and achieve legal and business objectives.
How will that contract you just drafted stand up to the scrutiny of a judge or jury? Each year, some of the largest jury verdicts in the United States are awarded in breach-of-contract cases. In this program, faculty will discuss lessons learned from trying contract cases to help you evaluate, prepare for, and win contract-related litigation. Topics will include unique issues that arise in trying contract claims; how commonly used contractual clauses can backfire at trial; minimizing risk in contract drafting and negotiation; restricting application of fiduciary duty and the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing; third-party vendor liability; and damages.
This is a sample questionnaire for classifying contracts according to risk.