The following is taken from a special paper produced for the In-House Community by Dr Justine Walker, Director Financial Crime (Sanctions and Bribery) at the British Bankers’ Association, which was presented to delegates at the recent Hong Kong Outbound Risk & Corruption Symposium, which took place on May 30th, 2013
Sascha Hindmarch, former General Counsel of the University of South Australia emphasises the importance of knowing who your client is. Dispelling the notion that all employees of an organisation make up the client, she advises that defining who the client is at the outset can avoid common pitfalls and minimise legal risk.
In our Capital Raising Special Report Kim & Chang explore recent developments unfolding in the world of capital markets in South Korea, and India's Phoenix Legal take us through some of the issues which have moved the needle on capital raising on the ground there.
The legal profession that Professor Richard Susskind OBE has been observing since 1981 is ‘on the brink of fundamental change’. He predicts that the practice of commercial law in particular, will be almost unrecognisable in 15 years from what it is today. Inevitably, in-house counsel teams are not immune. But with change comes opportunity ...
In our landmark ASIAN MENA-COUNSEL Deals of the Year report, we are delighted to bring you a comprehensive overview of our winners from 2012. A varied constellation of deals made it onto our shortlist this year and these consisted of some heavy-hitting M&A transactions, impressive energy projects, titanic IPO’s and various Islamic finance deals.
David Smyth and Warren Ganesh, of Smyth & Co in association with Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, summarise the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on legal advice privilege and some key points for lawyers, in-house lawyers and other professional advisers.
Here, Sesto E Vecchi, Managing Partner of Russin & Vecchi takes us through the finer points of legal professional privilege under Vietnamese law. Turning the lens on in-house counsel, we learn a great deal about how and when the privilege can be preserved.
