New Edition! International Corporate Practice

International Corporate Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide to Global Success provides guidance on building a comprehensive global legal department, including advice on structuring, staffing, and budgeting, as well as the use of foreign legal consultants and outsourcing.

Written by some of the nation’s leading corporate attorneys and edited by Carole Basri, this release for International Corporate Practice expands and updates the title with new material designed to enable lawyers to operate efficiently on the global stage. Topics discussed include the following:

  • International Attorney-Client Privilege: Chapter 2 provides updates on the privilege in the United States(Section 2:2.1); Germany, with special reference to the Volkswagen/Audi diesel scandal(Section 2:2.2[B]); Portugal, with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Law of 2017 (Section 2:2.2[F]); and Brazil(Section2:2.4[B]).
  • International Internal Investigations: Chapter 9 adds new material on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which replaced the European Data Protection Directive, particularly with respect to the requirement of adequate justification for transfers of personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area (Section 9:3.3[B]). Also covered are legal privilege issues in internal investigations in Germany and the United Kingdom (Section 9:4).
  • International Business Arbitration: Chapter 11 clarifies the difference between the “legal seat” of the arbitration and the “venue” (physical location) of the arbitration (Section 11.2.1[C], Section 11:5); addresses the use of temporary, emergency arbitrators (Section 11:2.2.3[A]); and explains the potential roles of the “court of secondary jurisdiction” and the “court of primary jurisdiction” in the enforcement or vacatur of an arbitration award (Section 11:10.2).
  • International Antibribery Laws: Chapter 18 highlights a variety of enforcement developments, including prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. corporations, and significantly increased penalties and fines (Section 18:4.1), as well as with multilateral efforts under the OECD Convention (Section 18:4.2).

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