Comparative Law Yearbook Of International Business 40

This is the fortieth volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, and it includes reports by practitioners and experts from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Germany, India, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Turkey, and the United States who deal with topics from national and regional perspectives. Authors from Australia and Turkey examine issues relating to investment. Authors from Italy, India, and Slovakia treat matters concerning corporate law. Authors from Germany, Italy, India, and the United States report on topics dealing with litigation and dispute resolution. Authors from Argentina, Belgium, and The Netherlands deal with issues relating to restrictive covenants, commercial law, and trade secrets.

This is the fortieth volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, and it includes reports by practitioners and experts from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Germany, India, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Turkey, and the United States who deal with topics from national and regional perspectives. Authors from Australia and Turkey examine issues relating to investment. Authors from Italy, India, and Slovakia treat matters concerning corporate law. Authors from Germany, Italy, India, and the United States report on topics dealing with litigation and dispute resolution. Authors from Argentina, Belgium, and The Netherlands deal with issues relating to restrictive covenants, commercial law, and trade secrets.

The current volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business addresses a variety of issues relating to the regulation of business entities and investment, as well as a range of general issues. In the fields of business entities and investment, practitioners from Panama, Brazil, Chile, Russia, Gibraltar, Canada, Singapore, Romania, Indonesia, and Hong Kong examine protection of minority shareholders, antitrust and competition law, securities regulation, corporate taxation, fund administration and management, joint ventures, protection of foreign investment, regulation of mutual funds, and corporate governance. Commentators from Nigeria, the United States, Japan, Spain, and The Netherlands also review issues relating to copyright and trade mark protection, court jurisdiction, insolvency, and telecommunications.

The Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, published under the auspices of the Center for International Legal Studies, in this 41st volume spans an arc from nuanced discussion of the notion of ‘creativity’ under various copyright regimes and product designations over corporate organization, acquisition and criminal conduct, regulation of payment services and tax evasion to dealing with disruptive behaviour in international arbitration. The authors, practitioners and academics from Japan, Poland, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Spain and England bring a medley of perspectives addressing developments and pressing legal issues for businesses that are engaged in international commerce and investment, such as the difficulty of prosecuting corporate crimes, disincentives for tax offenders to cooperate with authorities, and new paradigms for banking. What’s in this book: Among the broad spectrum of aspects, the book covers such issues and topics as the following: – reorganization of the concept of creativity by functions; – designation of products, business and entrepreneurs; – dividend distribution in public companies; – tax evasion, disproportionate punishment and lack of remedies; and – transposition of the European Payment Services Directive 2. How this will help you: As a scrutiny of the updated developments in the legal fields, this Yearbook helps readers gain insight into national and regional perspectives on the interpretation of laws. The presentation of the reports aids in understanding the impact of such legal developments in practice. Thus, this book serves as a source of knowledge for lawyers and academics to comprehend the changing legal rules and regulations and to confidently apply them in solving problems.

The Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, published under the auspices of the Center for International Legal Studies, in this 43rd volume spans an arc of timely and challenging concerns for business law practitioners and academics alike. It discusses: how arbitrability of intellectual property rights disputes might improve worldwide IPR enforcement; how the “disregard of legal entity” may be used to establish implied consent by a person or entity that is not a signatory to an arbitration agreement; how an effective cross-border insolvency framework under the Indian insolvency and bankruptcy code can borrow from the UNCITRAL Model Law’s and other jurisdictions’ approaches to the tension between “universality” and “territoriality”; how a promising new mediation act for Pakistan may help resolve a backlog of millions of cases in a jurisdiction with a patchwork of traditional and modern alternative dispute resolution mechanisms; how the European Union seeks to balance the taxation of digital services; how Brazil is addressing the taxation of offshore indirect transfers; how private equity capital structures in the unique market of professional sports create opportunities as well as risks; how Securities Market Regulation theory plays a role in the organization and development of active securities markets, particularly in emerging markets; and how non-signatories can be bound by arbitration agreements in Brazil through “disregard of legal entity” to ascertain implied consent. The authors are practitioners and academics from Brazil, England, France, India, Pakistan, Singapore, the United States and Uzbekistan. They offer a broad and diverse perspective on some of today’s pressing business law issues in a shrinking world.

The 2003 volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business deals with a variety of topics in the field of commercial law. These range from mergers in Nigeria and joint ventures in Thailand and Hungary to the fight against corruption on an international level, as well as corporate fraud in the United States, with attention being focused upon the new Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Some authors have dealt with subjects that involve finance, such as foreign investment in e-commerce in China, employees' stock purchases and option plans in the United States, pension funds in Nigeria and preferential tax regimes in Madeira. There is also a review of the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures. Other popular areas of commercial law that are covered in this volume include consumer protection in Bulgaria and alternative dispute resolution. Arbitration in Paraguay is discussed, along with the conducting of mediation by legal professionals. In addition, European Union law arises in relation to the likelihood of association, with another chapter detailing the economic association between Mexico and the European Union. The Commentators in this book are leading professionals in their respective fields and the interesting mix of topics should be of value to those involved in business in the international arena and their legal advisers.

In this thirty-eighth volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, once again practitioners and experts in a variety of legal fields examine issues from national and regional perspectives. Authors from Germany, Japan, Nigeria, and Poland deal with issues relating to data protection and privacy. Investment and infrastructure topics are examined by authors from Brazil, Colombia, Greece, and the United States. Subjects ranging from corporate responsibility, patent infringement litigation, and credit portfolio transfers to medical and family leave, food and beverage product representations, and distribution agreements are treated by authors from Belgium, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, and the United States.