Bored of Brics, the next emerging market wheeze is the Civets economies. What are they and how can FDs exploit them? BANKS SELL THEIR goods and services all over the world, which is why their charges are good at dreaming [...]

              A new court framework that would rule on validity and infringement cases stemming from proposed new unitary patents in the EU would be “prohibitively expensive” for small UK businesses to use, a committee [...]

The body which represents the interests of the global hedge fund industry has published a paper (39-page / 283KB PDF) which it says shows “substantial differences” between draft regulatory proposals and the advice of the European securities regulator.19 Apr 2012 [...]

King & Wood Mallesons is on the lookout for tie-up partners in the US and UK as part of its bid to become a leading international firm, with Nixon Peabody and SJ Berwin touted by market commentators as early contenders. [...]

                The blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng’s plight, which piqued much of the world’s attention the past fortnight, has fully exposed the shocking failings of China’s law-enforcement apparatus. Chen was forced to seek shelter [...]

Introduction Available remedies Out-of-court recovery Introduction. The breakthrough and subsequent boom of the Internet, and the speed with which it has developed, have resulted in an increase in conflicts and abuses related to the improper use of domain names – [...]

This afternoon Secretary of State Clinton announced that the U.S. is “suspending” the existing financial and investment sanctions on Burma (Myanmar). However, the details on how the existing sanctions will be suspended are still being worked out and the existing [...]

            It sometimes feels like a week doesn’t pass without some former head of state or other alleged outlaw on the front page as a new international trial opens. This week alone there’s Charles Taylor’s [...]

          The UK Bribery Act 2010 (“the Bribery Act”) came into force on 1 July 2011, and represents a comprehensive revision of United Kingdom’s anti-bribery laws. The Act is the product of a long period of [...]

Remedies for “Hardship” under the CISG International Sales Convention and the Decision by the Belgian Supreme Court in Scafom International v. Lorrain Tubes (2009) In light of the decision by the Belgian Supreme Court in Scafom International v. Lorrain Tubes [...]

SoundWave lets an ordinary laptop function like a Kinect sensor When you learned about the Doppler Effect in high school physics class—the wave frequency shift that occurs when the source of the wave is moving, easily illustrated by a passing [...]

Dubai property investors are set to get a full refund if developers default on handover under a proposed new Investor Protection Law that could be in force by the end of June 2012. The proposal also makes it mandatory for [...]