Expert Guides - Women in Business Law

Euromoney LMG Europe Women in Business Law Awards 2017 - shortlist announced

The shortlist for the seventh annual Euromoney Legal Media Group Europe Women in Business Law Awards has been announced

17/05/2017

Euromoney LMG Americas Women in Business Law Awards 2017 - Shortlist announced

The shortlist for the sixth annual Euromoney Legal Media Group Americas Women in Business Law Awards has been announced

02/05/2017

Women in Law: It’s time to step up to the plate

Nowadays the number of female professionals has significantly increased in contrast with the past, particularly in the field of law

26/08/2016 Emanuela Nespoli, Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo e Soci, Italy

Tax Planning for Foreign Ownership of United States Homes

The high net worth foreign client who buys a home in the United States for personal use has potential exposure to federal income taxes on rental income produced by the real estate, to federal income taxes on the sale of the real estate, to federal gift tax and possibly the federal...

26/08/2016 Carlyn S McCaffrey, McDermott Will & Emery, US John C McCaffrey, McDermott Will & Emery, US

APA in Portugal

The Deloitte Portugal transfer pricing practice is led by Patrícia Matos and consists of 27 transfer pricings specialists, located in three offices

26/08/2016 Patrícia Gomes de Matos, Deloitte, Portugal

Diversity and its discontents

This publication is about diversity in the sense of “women in business law”

26/08/2016 Ágata Uceda, KPMG Meijburg & Co, Netherlands

Trademarks in China: Significant Recent Developments & Practice Updates

The last 12 months have seen much action and noteworthy developments for trademark owners in China

26/08/2016 Ai-Leen Lim, AWA Asia, China

Strategy Rethink: Canada’s Changing Trademark Topography

There is good news for brand owners in Canada: important civil, procedural and administrative changes mark a decisive shift in the enforcement of trademarks, providing a broader scope of rights and swifter mechanisms in Canada

26/08/2016 Monique M Couture, Gowling WLG, Canada

Q&A with Gabriela Kennedy

This is my second career. I read English and French at uni

26/08/2016 Gabriela Kennedy, Mayer Brown JSM, Hong Kong

Intellectual Property Law in the Digital Society: Challenges and Opportunities

The advent of digital technologies has indeed changed the world and our life. Many areas of today’s reality are affected and among them intellectual property

26/08/2016 Natalia Gulyaeva, Hogan Lovells, Russia

Class actions “à la française”, the new cuisine

The introduction of a class action mechanism under French law has been discussed for decades

26/08/2016 Cécile Derycke, Hogan Lovells, France Christine Gateau, Hogan Lovells, France

Q&A with Mika Reiner Mayer

When I was a child, I came up with an idea for a travel toothbrush. It was a small toothbrush connected to a stopper that fit into a container filled with liquid toothpaste

26/08/2016 Mika Reiner Mayer, Cooley, US

Potential Crisis in Patent Law? Patent Eligibility of Medical Advances

“A potential crisis of patent law and medical innovation” — that is how two concurring judges described the decision that found a groundbreaking non-invasive prenatal diagnostic test ineligible for a patent in Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc.

26/08/2016 Lisa B Pensabene, O'Melveny & Myers, US Caitlin P Hogan, O'Melveny & Myers, US

Thinking Global: The unexpected payoffs of keeping soft IP and hard IP under the same roof

Lawyers, like biologists, tend to have a weakness for taxonomy. In the past decade, many IP departments have divided themselves into several subdivisions, or in some cases into a maze of totally independent departments, some specializing in “soft” IP (trademarks, designs, copyright) and others in...

26/08/2016 Catherine Mateu, Armengaud Guerlain, France

When it comes to biologics, Canada dances to a different tune

The “patent dance” in the U.S. has received a great deal of attention in the last few years, with pharmaceutical companies, their counsel and the courts struggling to determine the scope and meaning of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA)

26/08/2016 Daphne C Lainson, Smart & Biggar / Fetherstonhaugh, Canada Nancy Pei, Smart & Biggar / Fetherstonhaugh, Canada

Q&A with Mirjam de Blécourt

Basically, it combines all my interests and passions: It has a tough business aspect to it, as you have to take into account the interests of large multinationals

26/08/2016 Mirjam de Blécourt, Baker McKenzie, Netherlands

Extraordinary Damages in Canadian Employment Law

Reviewing the state of damages in Canadian employment law, one notion overshadows all others – progressive

26/08/2016 Natalie C MacDonald, Rudner MacDonald, Canada

Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace in Italy

Diversity has never been such a hot topic as it is now in the shadows of the great ‘migration’ debate manifested in the now historical BREXIT vote

26/08/2016 Giulietta Bergamaschi, Lexellent, Italy

Is the Brazilian legal framework friendly to women?

Brazil has a complex and detailed labor and employment legal framework

26/08/2016 Thais Galo, Pinheiro Neto Advogados, Brazil

Q&A with Elise M Bloom

For as long as I can remember, I was always fascinated by how our legal system worked and the fact that, as a lawyer, you could make a difference

26/08/2016 Elise M Bloom, Proskauer, US

Incentives to RES projects and the electrical interconnection of Andean countries

The electric infrastructure in Peru has experienced an unprecedented expansion thanks to policies launched for the past 25 years, aimed at promoting private investment, mostly in the power generation and transmission sectors

26/08/2016 Maria Teresa Quiñones, Rodrigo Elías & Medrano, Peru

Starting-Up a Business in Portugal: A corporate legal approach

Portugal is a country that offers a cost-competitive and skillful labour market, good infrastructures and a great geostrategic location – which has enabled in the past the Portuguese to dominate maritime exploration during the Age of Discoveries

26/08/2016 Sofia Barros Carvalhosa, CTSU – Sociedade de Advogados, Portugal Joana Pereira Dias, CTSU – Sociedade de Advogados, Portugal

Survey on gender quota for supervisory boards

As from 2016, the statutory gender quota of 30 per cent for supervisory boards of listed and codetermined companies came into effect. Manuela Schwesig, Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, said in December 2014

26/08/2016 Daniela Favoccia, Hengeler Mueller, Germany

Global Cartel Enforcement Update1 Guidance on Managing International Investigations

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has continued to successfully prosecute corporations and individuals for criminal violations of the U.S. antitrust laws, i.e., cartel violations. Both companies and individuals located in Europe, Asia, Latin America and other jurisdictions may be...

26/08/2016 Wendy W H Waszmer, King & Spalding, US

Recent Developments in Merger Control in India

The merger control regime in India has been in force for over five years and has significantly transformed the manner in which M&A activity is governed in India

26/08/2016 Nisha Kaur Uberoi, Trilegal, India Soumya Hariharan, Trilegal, India Gaurav Bansal, AZB & Partners, India Nikhil D’Souza, AZB & Partners, India

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