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Welcome to the Legal Media Group (LMG) Women in Business Law 2021, 11th edition.

11/09/2021

The Implementing Regulation of the Payment Systems Regulation: Payment Services Providers

Following the issuance of Bank Indonesia Regulation No. 22/23/PBI/2020 on Payment Systems

10/09/2021 Maria H Sagrado, Makarim & Taira S, Indonesia Budhy Apriastuti Evita, Makarim & Taira S, Indonesia Rahel Olivia Manurung, Makarim & Taira S, Indonesia

The principle of the bankruptcy administrator’s disclosure of the debtor’s commercial secrets

Where a company goes bankrupt, the controlling rights of the company’s original shareholders over the company are restricted due to the entry of new entities enjoying such rights

09/09/2021 Nafisa Nihmat, Zhong Lun Law Firm, China

The importance of diversity in crisis management

The crisis has set in, now what?

31/08/2021 Ana Carolina Lourenço, Machado Meyer Advogados, Brazil Marcius Filipe Goncalves Modesto, Machado Meyer Advogados, Brazil Sávio Pereira de Andrade, Machado Meyer Advogados, Brazil

US Supreme Court declines to review whether the Federal Arbitration Act forecloses public-policy challenges to arbitration awards

For the second time in four years, the US Supreme Court has declined to resolve an arbitration-related issue that state and federal courts have been wrestling with over the last decade

31/08/2021 Sarah B Biser, Fox Rothschild, US

Much has been written about COVID-19 and about mental health issues in times of the pandemic… but what is it like to live it in the flesh?

I still cannot believe the size of the pandemic in many ways: the deaths, the families, the lost jobs, the milestones that will never be (graduation from high school, college, the postponed weddings, the toddlers that haven’t socialized and so many others

30/08/2021 Laura Collada, Dumont, Mexico

Covid-19 inspired changes to the Danish in-court restructuring rules

The current Danish restructuring rules came into force in 2010

30/08/2021 Pernille Bigaard, Skau Reipurth & Partnere, Denmark Anders Ørskov Melballe, Skau Reipurth & Partnere, Denmark Louise Krarup Simonsen, Skau Reipurth & Partnere, Denmark

Matheson partners Julie Murphy-O’Connor and Tara Doyle discuss work-life balance, the firm’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and provide useful advice on how to develop your career

How do you think the covid-19 pandemic has or will impact gender parity in the legal profession within your jurisdiction?

30/08/2021 Tara Doyle, Matheson, Ireland Julie Murphy-O’Connor, Matheson, Ireland

International effect of Judicial Sale of Ships

Ships are responsible for as much as 90% of the carriage of world trade providing the main life line for global trade

29/08/2021 Ann Fenech, Fenech & Fenech Advocates, Malta

African continental free trade and shipping

It is International trade left to its natural course without tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions.

26/08/2021 Kashimana Tsumba, Foundation Chambers, Nigeria

A novel injunction pushing India’s IP frontier

On May 3, 2021, India got its first Anti-Anti-Suit injunction

26/08/2021 Vaishali Mittal, Anand and Anand, India

Setting the pace for family office in Hong Kong

Now home to more than a quarter of the world’s billionaires, family offices are gaining popularity in Asia

25/08/2021 Tracy Ho, EY, Hong Kong Karina Wong, EY, Hong Kong

Age-based restrictions for pilots and crew gender equality – overview of recent discrimination issues in the aviation sector

On 13 April 2021 the Italian Supreme Court issued the Judgment No. 9662/2021 on a case concerning the legitimacy of an Italian national measure setting special age restrictions for aircraft pilots involved in national intelligence operations

18/08/2021 Laura Pierallini, Studio Pierallini, Italy

Diversity in the legal profession: Ecuador’s fight for inclusion

Ecuador is a small country located at the equator line in South America

16/08/2021 Cecilia Falconi, Falconi Puig Abogados, Ecuador Angelina Galletti, Falconi Puig Abogados, Ecuador

The daily legal minefield manufacturers have to face

The product liability practice has drastically changed these past few years in law firms

16/07/2021 Sylvie Gallage-Alwis, Signature Litigation, France

An impending flood of formal insolvencies or a continued decline?

Conventional wisdom says there will be a flood of insolvencies in a recession, but there are other forces at work

08/09/2020 Jennifer Ball, Clayton Utz, Australia

Portuguese courts are up and running

September marks the return of different activities and institutions after the summer break and this includes the courts that resume full operations at the beginning of the month

03/09/2020 Inês Gomes da Cruz, PLMJ, Portugal

Q&A with Florencia Heredia

Partner, Allende & Brea

02/09/2020 Florencia Heredia, Allende & Brea, Argentina

Transfer pricing planning and documentation during a global pandemic

The outbreak of COVID-19 has led to a global healthcare crisis that is having ripple effects across the world economy

31/08/2020 Ágata Uceda, KPMG Meijburg & Co, Netherlands Ioanna Ninou, KPMG Meijburg & Co, Netherlands

My Lockdown Memoirs

I went into lockdown on 24th March, this year, after a week of speculations on what the government would announce

26/08/2020 Uwa Ohiku, Jackson Etti & Edu, Nigeria

Battery minerals. The case of lithium in Argentina

Lithium has become one of the minerals with increasing relevance and potential value, due to its use in manufacturing batteries

25/08/2020 Florencia Heredia, Allende & Brea, Argentina

Permanent establishment: a tax concept that every business executive should appreciate

The concept of permanent establishment (PE) is arguably one of the most important issues in treaty-based international tax law

25/08/2020 Becky Lai, EY, Hong Kong

Malta’s Maritime Vocation reflected in our Maritime legal development

As a maritime legal practitioner I consider myself to be very fortunate indeed to operate out of a jurisdiction which is synonymous with the maritime sector

24/08/2020 Ann Fenech, Fenech & Fenech Advocates, Malta

Merger Control Regime In India In Relation To Minority Investments

This article briefly discusses the treatment of minority investments under the Indian merger control regime and its implications for private equity funds

23/08/2020 Nisha Kaur Uberoi, Trilegal, India

US Supreme Court Rules that State-Law Principles Allowing a Nonsignatory to Enforce an Arbitration Provision Against a Signatory May Be Applied to International Contracts

In cases involving contracts between US companies, courts frequently allow a nonsignatory to a contract to enforce an arbitration provision in the contract against a signatory, when the signatory to the contract relies on the terms of that agreement in asserting its claims against the nonsignatory

19/08/2020 Sarah B Biser, Fox Rothschild, US

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