May 2010 - US Healthcare Reform
The US Healthcare Reform Bill, signed into law earlier this year, is one of the most important pieces of legislation to be passed by the US Congress for many years...

March 2010 - Fraud, Forensic Accounting and the Downturn
Forensic accounting is now considered as one of the fastest growing specialisms in the accountancy industry...

February 2010 - Portuguese Banking Law
Privatisation of the Portuguese banking sector only started in 1989 but continued at a fast pace with the bulk of privatisations occurring in the first years of the 1990s, and being virtually...

January 2010 - Legal Awards
During the past six months the research team at Corporate International has been researching thousands of law firms across the globe, sourcing the very best law firms...

January 2010 - Cypriot Tax
As part of the accession process to the EU and in compliance with the OECD requirements against harmful tax practices, the Cyprus direct tax legislation has undergone major reforms...

December 2009 - Tax
The key objective in effective corporate tax planning is to identify the main factors in an organisation’s structure that dictate the opportunities for tax efficiencies...

December 2009 - Competition Law
Monitoring and maintaining competition in the markets has become an integral part of the global business environment and a mainstay of the...

November 2009 - Commercial Law Group
Established in 1992, Commercial Law Group (CLG) is an independent group of legal firms covering the major European Centres. Its members are in regular...

September 2009 - Legal Process Outsourcing: Changing the legal landscape
The managing partner of magic circle firm Freshfields was quoted as recently as October 2008...

August 2009 - LawNet Stronger Together
LawNet is one of the most established and well respected legal networks in the UK and Ireland, as evidenced by 20 years of helping mid-sized law firms compete and win business in an...

July 2009 - International legal Alliance: Noerr
Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz has been named Germany’s best law firm for M&A at the prestigious International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards...

July 2009 - Global Securitisation Market
The jurisdiction of Belize is in the process of developing an offering that will allow its corporate vehicles to be used as SPVs for the transfer of assets in a securitisation process...

June 2009 - Competition Legal Experts
Monitoring and maintaining competition in the markets has become an integral part of the global business environment and a mainstay of the business pages worldwide recently...

June 2009 - Entertainment Law Map
As the entertainment industry develops and expands and new technologies abound businesses in all sectors are being faced with not only new opportunities but new challenges. In order to meet...

June 2009 - Indian Competition Law
The competition regime in India has undergone a rapid period of change in recent years, resulting in the introduction of new legislation and governing bodies. Corporate International...

June 2009 - US Corporate Tax Law Who’s Who
Corporate taxation in the US is imposed both by the federal government and by most state governments. The federal income tax on corporations is the most prominent tax in terms of...

May 2009 - Product liability
The rapid developments in industrialisation and international trade have given rise to an increasing awareness of product liability and the topic has now become...

May 2009 - White-Collar Crime & Corporate Fraud
When Edwin Sutherland coined the term ‘white-collar crime’ in his address to the American Sociological Society in 1939, he used the concept to challenge conventional stereotypes and theories...

April 2009 - Employment Law Focus
Employment law is a complex legal field that requires helpful guidance and leadership. Both employers and employees need to be aware of the legal processes surrounding employment to make sure the process is undertaken correctly...

April 2009 - Cartels
A cartel is an explicit agreement among business ventures not to compete with each other. The agreement is usually secret, verbal and often informal...

April 2009 - Legal Advice in Restructuring and Insolvency
Restructuring a debt position, completing a distressed takeover, or dealing with the complexities of an insolvency, are all situations...

April 2009 - Employment Law Alliance
The Employment Law Alliance (ELA) is the world’s largest network of labour and employment lawyers, with attorneys in all 50 US states and more than 100 countries globally...

April 2009 - Public procurement who’s who
Public procurement is the purchase of goods, services and public works by governments and public utilities, and in most countries this...

April 2009 - Environmental Law
Environmental law has become a crucial area of legislation in recent years. It has expanded from simple regulations safeguarding the quality of...

April 2009 - EU Competition Law
European Community competition law is one of the areas of authority of the European Union (EU). Competition law, or ‘antitrust’ as it is known in the US...

March 2009 - Auditing Map
If the need for comprehensive auditing solutions was not self-evident, then a string of scandals over 2008 will have served as a timely reminder...

February 2009 - Full Service Law Who's Who
Full service law firms. The term is often spoken and heard, but rarely understood. This trend is set to change however, due to a variety of reasons. As usual, the credit crunch has been a prime factor in...

February 2009 - Merger control
The worldwide M&A landscape is becoming ever more complex, with an increasing number of deals encompassing cross border and multi jurisdictional elements. In response, merger control regimes, the procedure of reviewing M&A transactions under...

February 2009 - Employment Law
UK employment law covers legislative issues such as unfair or wrongful dismissal and related lawsuits, grievance and disciplinary procedure, redundancy, discrimination, health and safety, maternity and statutory sick pay...

February 2009 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
One consequence of recent economic strife is that businesses now face more litigious times. An increasing complaint of businesses is that it is cheaper to settle a dispute than risk the current high costs...

February 2009 - Channel Island litigation
For many lawyers and financiers, tumult in the world economy has led to constant uncertainty in the markets, verging on fully-fledged anarchy, and with no resolution in sight. However, for those who can remember it...

February 2009 - Shipping Law
Maritime Law, also referred to as Shipping Law, is a distinct body of private law governing the relationships between private entities that operate vessels on the oceans...

January 2009 - Pharmaceutical Advertising Law Who’s Who
The legislative controls for pharmaceutical advertising have now managed to achieve an element of harmonisation in their approach towards the promotional activities surrounding...

January 2009 - Renewable Energy
Renewable energy is one of the buzz phrases of the 21st Century and is becoming increasingly important as demand for energy, and therefore fossil fuels, increases rapidly with...

January 2009 - Construction Law
Construction law is a vast area that deals with the myriad legal issues that arise at all stages of the construction process. These can include contract administration, arranging project...

January 2009 - Competition Law
Competition issues have been a mainstay of the global business community recently. BAA’s battle with the Competition Commission over its domination of the airport network in...

January 2009 - Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is about how companies manage the business processes to produce an overall positive impact on its workforce, shareholders, clients...

December 2008 - Advising the Adviser - Eurocom C.I.
As the winter cold and the global recession begin to bite, white collar crime, institutional fraud and product counterfeiting are on the increase...

December 2008 - Knowledge Management in law firms across Europe
Knowledge Management is an increasingly important area for law firms as more and more legal professionals operate in...

December 2008 - Insolvency and Restructuring
The current economic situation has brought with it, and will continue to bring, opportunities for those working in the insolvency and...

December 2008 - International commercial crime review
In a world of electronic transactions and globalised business, commercial crime has become a predicament of immeasurable magnitude...

December 2008 - Global franchise law
Stop reading and take a look in your bin. Dig around even. What do you see? Starbucks coffee cup? Subway wrapper? Instead of a tasty footlong, you were sold a franchise...

December 2008 - CPR advisors who's who
The need to provide Competent Person’s Reports was dramatically highlighted by several high profile corporate scandals in the resources industry...

November 2008 - International shipping and maritime law
Shipping law is divided into two primary areas, namely dry shipping which concerns contractual issues, bill of lading and charterparty disputes, and disputes about...

November 2008 - Denton Wilde Sapte LLP – Focusing on New Technology
Denton Wilde Sapte is an international law firm headquartered in London with a geographic footprint across...

November 2008 - UK Shipping and Maritime Law
Curtis David Garrard (CDG) is a young and energetic UK law firm working exclusively in the global energy and shipping sectors. Based in London, our business is international in scope, and...

November 2008 - South Africa – Webber Wentzel - South Africa's leading full service law firm
Webber Wentzel (WW) is South Africa's leading full service law firm. We offer specialist legal advice covering all...

October 2008 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
The civil law landscape has changed dramatically in the UK during the past decade. A series of procedural reforms, put in place following Lord Woolf’s review of the civil system, have thrown...

October 2008 - Employment Law
During its 2007 to 2008 session, the US Supreme Court addressed more employment law issues than in any other term in history. In addition, 85,000 people filed discrimination suits against...

October 2008 - Intellectual Property
Idea and innovation are essential catalysts for growth in today’s largest economies, but they are increasingly tough to protect. Worldwide patent filings are rising dramatically year-on-year and topped...

September 2008 - IGAL: a global one-stop shop
With mid-market companies exposed to an ever more international business community, owner managers and directors can be quickly intimidated by operating across borders...

August 2008 - UK Tax who’s Who Forward
Perhaps the biggest news for UK companies this year is the change to the Capital Gains Tax regime. This will perhaps be best remembered for the climb down from Alistair Darling’s...

August 2008 - Sports Law: Fair Play
August promises to be an exciting month in the Sports world. The Beijing Olympics sees the coming together of athletes from many nations across the globe...

August 2008 - International Tax who’s Who
At present the EU represents a myriad different tax rates and approaches to tax legislation. However, the desire of the EU to create a harmonised system may change this in the future...

August 2008 - The IMA: promoting an industry
The Interim Management Association (IMA), originally named ATIES, was formed in 1987 to represent the interests of the then burgeoning interim management industry...

June 2008 - Dispute resolution in the UK and Europe
The last decade has been a period of significant change for the European commercial dispute resolution arena. With court time at a premium and a growing emphasis on alternatives to litigation...

June 2008 - Tackling International Commercial Crime
A magnet for global controversy, white collar crime has been in the spotlight as never before since US scandals transformed the fraud landscape at the beginning of this decade...

May 2008 - EU Corporate Tax
At present the EU represents a myriad different tax rates and approaches to tax legislation. However, the desire of the EU to create a harmonised system may change this in the future...

May 2008 - International Employment Law
Choosing to set up operations in more than one country can be hazardous for several reasons, and one of the most potent is the legislation of the destination country...

May 2008 - Exploring Shari' ah Law
It is estimated that the Islamic finance market is now worth more than £250 billion worldwide and is growing at 15 percent a year. British banks are racing against each other to launch...

April 2008 - Simplicity and Fairness? Corporate tax review 2008
As another tax year comes to a close, Daniel Wilkins caught up with a number of the UK’s leading tax advisers to discuss...

January 2008 - Terminating Employment: A Trickier Game in 2008
For the new year, employers will have to think twice before making collective redundancies and forcing retirement...

November 2007 - Entertainment Law
The glitz and glamour of the entertainment world goes hand in hand with developments originating in the notably geekier world of technology. With the arrival of digital media, web 2.0 and...

August 2007 - 2007 Corporate Tax Review
The UK’s corporate tax regime is a complex one. For our 2007 Corporate Tax Review, Corporate INTL spoke to a number of leading tax practitioners about the current regime...

July 2007 - Commercial dispute resolution is changing
The last decade has been a period of significant change for professional services in the dispute resolution arena. With court time at a premium and a growing emphasis on...

June 2007 - REITs: spreading the risks of investment
All year surveyors, property lawyers and tax advisers have been preparing for the introduction of REITs. But what are REITs and what are their benefits?...

April 2007 - Green is the new black
Once a minority concern, environmental management has become big news of late. As more and more UK businesses look beyond compliance to the potential benefits...

March 2007 - Acquiring into Poland
Polish accession to the EU had mostly positive impact on the attractiveness of cross border deals in Poland, although some negative implications may also be noticed...

February 2007 - Safeguarding innovations
Securing a firm’s intellectual property is becoming widely recognised as a central function of sound management. Corporate INTL spoke to Catrin Turner of law firm McGrigors...

December 2006 - The 2006 Regulation Roundup
In October of this year Lord Browne, BP’s Chief Executive was ordered by a judge in the USA to testify in the federal court case against BP concerning an explosion at its Texas refinery in 2005...

September 2006 - Corporate Tax: Complexity and Simplification
A month after a call from the leader of the Liberal Democrats for action to simplify tax for small businesses...

July 2006 - Shortfalls and simplification
Pension shortfall is an area of concern for businesses across the UK. There is talk of a crisis, and the voices are growing in volume. Meanwhile new regulations coming into force...

July 2006 - Shields and Swords: Competition Law
Competition issues have accounted for a sizeable number of the inches of business reportage across Europe of late. In June the news broke of investigations into British Airways...

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