Expert local accounts of corporate reorganisation and bankruptcy law worldwide, addressing: applicable legislation, excluded entities, secured lending and credit, competent courts, voluntary liquidations and reorganisations, involuntary liquidations and reorganisations, doing business during reorganisations, stays of proceedings and moratoria, set-off and netting, post-filing credit, expedited, successful and unsuccessful reorganisations, bankruptcy formalities, claims and appeals, voidable transactions, creditors’ enforcement, director and officer liability and international cases.
In this recent addition to the Getting The Deal Through series, local experts summarise legal practice for the life sciences industry in their jurisdiction. Topics covered include: organisation and financing of health care, advertising legislation, collaboration of the pharmaceutical industry with health-care professionals, infringements of competition law, compliance of medical device manufacturers, pharmaceuticals regulation, pricing and reimbursement of medicinal products and medicine quality and access to information.
This volume provides comparative analysis of real estate regulations in different jurisdictions worldwide, with answers to crucial questions in key areas such as: acquisition of real estate, including recording conveyance documents, foreign investors, investment entities, leases and mortgages and contracts and financing, including liens, interest, enforcement, protection of collateral, covenants and bankruptcy.
Cartel Regulation addresses the most important issues practitioners face to mitigate the fines imposed on clients under the scrutiny of antitrust authorities. Expert local insight into cartel regulation worldwide, covering crucial questions such as: relevant legislation and substantive law,industry-specific offences and defences, steps in an investigation, investigative powers, international cooperation, interplay between jurisdictions, adjudication, appeal process, criminal, civil and administrative sanctions, private damage claims and class actions, recent penalties, sentencing guidelines, leniency and immunity programmes, defending a case and getting the fine down.
Given the international mobility of wealthy individuals and their families, it is vital that they and their local advisers have a resource to guide them through the often significantly different legal frameworks they may face in other jurisdictions in which they choose to live, do business and invest. Private Client seeks to draw together the main issues of importance to a private client in this situation covering: rules in relation to tax, succession, the holding and management of property and immigration.
Investor–state arbitration is on the rise and it is now difficult to simply dismiss its growth as a passing fad. The principal institutions that administer investment arbitrations have seen significant increases in their caseloads during recent years and there is now heavy demand for relevant information on the subject. This guide presents all the key information needed to assess the feasibility and potential advantages of investment treaty claims against different states around the world.
Ports & Terminals provides a comprehensive overview of legislation and regulation affecting these crucial links of the global economy. With chapters written by international experts, topics covered include: information on key ports in major jurisdictions; port construction, development, and operation; state policies and legislative frameworks for port development and reform, including public procurement and PPP legislation; relevant regulatory authorities and their powers; competition regulations; tariffs; and contractual disputes and remedies.
Climate Regulation offers a comparative guide to the regulatory response to climate change in different jurisdictions worldwide, covering areas such as: impact of international agreements and regulations, national regulatory policy and regulatory authorities, national legislation, emissions and limits, emission allowances and trading, energy production, use and efficiency, renewable energy consumption, policy and general regulation, carbon capture and storage and climate matters in M&A transactions.
Comparative international analysis for corporate counsel and cross-border legal practitioners in key areas of environment law and policy: legislation, main areas of environmental protection, hazardous activities and substances, industrial accidents, environmental aspects in transactions, environmental impact assessment, regulatory authorities, judicial proceedings and international treaties and institutions.
Expert local insight into the major trademark law issues across multiple jurisdictions, covering: ownership and scope of trademarks, application for registration, appeal of failed applications, third-party opposition to registration, duration and maintenance of marks, assignment, markings, types of trademark enforcement proceedings, procedural format and timing, discovery, litigation costs, defences and remedies and appeals.
Mediation provides an overview of the treaties, cost, styles and procedures for one of the most popular methods of alternative dispute resolution. Topics covered include: treaties, domestic law, confidentiality, settlements, procedures, structures and processes, co-mediation, costs, training, accreditation of mediators and appointment.
Outsourcing, both as a market and as a deal type, has now come of age. It has reached global scale and is now important from an economic, commercial, governmental, legal and regulatory perspective. Getting the Deal Through - Outsourcing is aimed at all outsourcing practitioners, including lawyers working in the public and private sectors and those working in-house and in private legal practice. And it is also for commercial, corporate development and business development executives, procurement and sourcing executives, HR executives and advisers, and all those who have to consider or advise on outsourcing arrangements.
