9th IBA European Corporate and Private M&A Virtual Conference
17 Jun - 18 Jun 2021
Online, England
Developing business relationships with new corporate clients: focus on women lawyers
17 Jun 2021 1300 - 1400 BST
Online, England
Maintaining judicial integrity and ethical standards in practice: an IBA study on criminal and disciplinary measures
21 Jun 2021 1300 - 1400 BST
Online, England
Mediation of IP disputes - a new era
22 Jun 2021 1000 - 1130 BST
Online, England
The Fundamentals of International Legal Business Practice: Global Trends in Changing Times
22 Jun 2021 1300 - 1400 BST
Online, England
Charting a new course: Covid-19 as an accelerator for global cross-border practice and lawyer regulatory change
24 Jun 2021 1300 - 1415 BST
Online, England
‘Sandboxes’ and legal services regulation: the new playground for non-lawyers?
28 Jun 2021 1600 - 1700 BST
Online, England
Innovation in mining – carbon reduction and the circular economy
29 Jun 2021 1200 - 1300 BST
Online, England
'Teaser' Event for the IBA 7th Annual Corporate Governance Conference: Executive Compensation Update in the Age of COVID-19
29 Jun 2021
Online, England
The LGBTI world in the pandemic
29 Jun 2021 1400 - 1500 BST
Online, England
Publications
How to make the transition from face-to-face to virtual meetings: Business Development and Marketing Subcommittee guide, June 2021
Particularly in the legal profession, having face-to-face meetings are essential to build up and maintain a relationship with clients, members of staff and other persons important to your practice. For most of us this has changed drastically overnight when working from home became the norm.
Portugal: cash pooling arrangements and exemption from stamp duty
For more than ten years, multinational enterprise groups operating in Portugal with cash pooling arrangements were faced with the interpretation that such intragroup financing was subject to – and not exempt from – stamp duty. In 2020, the country’s stamp duty code was amended to include a specific exemption applicable to cash pooling arrangements. The question is whether this will work in regard to cross-border arrangements and what remedies may be available.
Co-chairs note - Technology Law Committee
A message from the Co-Chair of the Technology Committee from the June 2021 e-Bulletin
Indian data laws that made the headlines
This article discusses the technology and data related developments which made headlines recently and have the potential of changing the way companies do business in India.
The perspective of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court on the right to be forgotten
Everyone has something in their life that they would like to simply erase from their memories. However, it is undeniable that while living in the information era and with today’s technology this may be difficult, as everything is recorded and registered and information spreads almost instantaneously around the world. The Brazilian Federal Supreme Court recently positioned itself with regards to the right to be forgotten.
Open banking and emerging opportunities for fintechs in Nigeria
Open banking is an emerging financial services model that focuses on the portability and open availability of customer data held by financial institutions. With the growth of financial technology (‘fintech’) companies, open banking may lead to a situation where a customer banking with multiple institutions can manage their accounts from a centralised location without having to check out from one system to another.
Domain names, still a (very) appreciated digital asset
It has been more than 20 years since companies, individuals and all type of organisations started building their digital identities around a domain name. That made sense in the late 1990s, when domain names were the natural extension of well-established brands and search engines and other digital tools were not as developed as they are now.