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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.

Learn about open business models that license and develop IP across organizational, industrial and national boundaries.

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?

This material comes from a program for those with established international practices, as companies need to constantly evaluate in a tight market if resources are being properly deployed.

This session will discuss monitoring and protecting intellectual property assets around the globe. Learn the risks and challenges other companies are facing, and how they are combating IP infringement. The topics addressed will include: identifying and protecting against risks to your brand; strategies for monitoring your brand name; tackling domain squatters and combating other brand abuse; developing strategies for protecting your brand on a global scale; and how counterfeit goods and piracy impact brands and the best practices for targeting suppliers of counterfeit goods.

This presentation covers EU and the data privacy and security movement, as well as it's history, and the comparison between the EU and the APEC.

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