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This resource discusses how to best protect confidential information, such as trade secrets, personally identifiable information and company proprietary information. The resource further discusses the relevant laws, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.

This article from the June 8th, 2010 ACC Ontario Chapter program discusses 15 practical and straightforward things that your organization can do to avoid procurement trouble. This document also cites key procurement cases.

This resource provides tips for buyers and sellers looking to merge with or acquire businesses.

This document analyzes Canada's Competition Act and includes helpful tips regarding competitor agreements, advertising, mergers, and pricing and distribution.

This Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) training course will help you recognize "red flags" — situations presenting a risk of FCPA violations — and deal with them appropriately.

To access the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35562-fcpa-anti-corruption>www.acc.c…;.

Despite the global economic crisis of 2008, China still represents a major market and resource for many businesses along with its plan of four trillion RMB stimulus packages. After over 20 years cash inflow, China has been lifted out of poverty and has decided it is time to take a different approach to foreign investment. Recent developments in various industries and areas from both legal and governmental approval aspects for PRC foreign investment and M&A will be addressed.

Recently, leading companies have learned the hard way about being the victim of a breach of data privacy – even though they complied with regulations and standards. Data privacy compliance is a task that is becoming more difficult, and more critical, with each passing month, as more and more jurisdictions (state, federal and international) add to the regulatory matrix, and as private requirements (like the credit card industry's PCI-DSS) become more complex.

A multitude of issues can arise during the term of a real estate lease and/or at the expiration of a lease term that require in-house counsel to get involved. Many of these issues can be more complex than one would imagine, can cost your company unnecessary money and are often not fully addressed in the lease agreement.

In recent years, many leading companies have learned the hard way about being the victim of a breach of data privacy — even though they complied with regulations and standards. In this program, you will learn from their painful experiences how to use the tools and techniques of corporate compliance to be prepared when your company gets hit — and maybe, how to postpone that pain.

Litigation in a foreign jurisdiction presents in-house counsel with unique challenges. Differences in procedure, remedies and costs make decision-making difficult and cost control problematic. How are those difficulties best addressed? This panel of experienced in-house counsel and foreign counsel will speak to specific techniques of managing commercial and IP litigation in foreign jurisdictions.

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