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Cybersecurity in the Boardroom: Lessons learned from working with boards and senior management
Phyllis Sumner, who leads King & Spalding’s Data, Privacy & Security practice, spends more and more of her time these days counseling corporate boards and senior executives on the perils and pitfalls of data security. She explains her work and the lessons she draws from her...
Read MoreDeal with Iran Is Major Diplomatic Feat: But the implementation battle is just beginning
On July 14, 2015, negotiators from Iran, the EU, and the P5+1 countries – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany – announced that they had reached a consensus on the final text of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) with Iran...
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Pushing Back on Piling On: Heaping regulatory penalties on businesses that plead guilty may not be the answer
“A slap-on-the-wrist culture.” This is how Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), speaking publicly this spring, characterized recent decisions by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators not to impose the most severe regulatory penalties...
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Anticipating Investor-State Disputes: Bilateral investment treaties are crucial to institutional investors in emerging markets
Institutional investors looking overseas for potential investment opportunities should take into account the existence of bilateral investment treaties (“BITs”) when structuring their overseas investments. Such structuring may prove to be critical should the host government take...
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Food Safety and Recalls – A Global Challenge: Manufacturers can reap long-term benefits from short-term compliance adjustments
MCC: What issues are top of mind for your clients in the food and beverage industry? Stansbury: My clients include global food and beverage manufacturers, distributors, food industry trade associations, and retailers such as grocery stores. In 2015, food safety continues to be a hot topic as...
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Fiduciary Duties of Directors in Latin America
Introduction The board of directors of a corporation is the principal body ultimately responsible for the corporation’s management. Compliance with fiduciary duties to the corporation and shareholders is a matter not to be taken lightly and can come as a source of stress, especially...
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Market Trends in Middle-Market Leveraged Financing Transactions
MCC: Please give us a 2014 market recap for middle-market leveraged finance transactions. Hong: 2014 continued to be a year that generally favored borrowers and private equity sponsors, and terms in the loan transactions became increasingly more borrower and sponsor friendly. Many elements...
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