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The Food Safety Modernization Act Image

The Food Safety Modernization Act

Michael A. Leichtling

<b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</i></b><p>By being proactive in adopting safe food processing operations, such companies hope to protect their reputation and business from the negative publicity and possible financial disaster arising from the sale of contaminated food and non-compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

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The Privacy Shield Scheme: Should Your Company Join? Image

The Privacy Shield Scheme: Should Your Company Join?

Jonathan Armstrong & André Bywater

The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the EU-US Privacy Shield for business. This is vital in order to enable businesses to make an informed decision on whether or not to join this scheme.

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Update on Protecting IP In China

Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

For most global entertainment and media companies, the need to think about how to protect intellectual property in China is an inevitable reality. For a few years, there have been indications that China is willing to be more protective of IP owners' rights. But recent events signal there's still work to be done. These developments highlight that, despite small gains, protecting intellectual property in China can still be a major headache for companies and in-house attorneys.

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EU Push to Filter 'Illegal' Content Raises Alarms in Silicon Valley Image

EU Push to Filter 'Illegal' Content Raises Alarms in Silicon Valley

Ben Hancock

The European Commission (EU) is ramping up pressure on tech companies to more aggressively use automated filtering to scrub "illegal" content from the Internet, a move that is drawing criticism from some lawyers and free speech activists in Silicon Valley.

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Update: The China Equipment Leasing Market Image

Update: The China Equipment Leasing Market

Jonathan L. Fales

<b><I>Reaching an Inflection Point</I></b><p>As the Chinese government tightly regulates leasing, it is problematic that the industry has never been able to develop a unified position on important licensing, tax, capitalization, regulatory and other requirements. This needs to change if the industry is to continue to expand, particularly among small and medium enterprises.

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The Alien Tort Statute

Lanier Saperstein & Carol Lee

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide the long-awaited issue of whether corporations can be liable under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), enacted by the First Congress more than 225 years ago.

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China's New Cybersecurity Law

Dan Whitaker

<b><I>The Challenge of Complying</I></b><p>In a bid to assert control over cyberspace, China passed a sweeping cybersecurity law that affects virtually every company doing business in that country. Despite its broad reach and potential for disruption, it appears that very few legal professionals are aware of the law.

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NY Divorce and UK Pension Rights Image

NY Divorce and UK Pension Rights

Gerry Wendrovsky & David Salter

What happens when a New York matrimonial litigant's pension benefits are foreign, administered by a plan administrator outside the jurisdiction of a New York court? As the authors state, the importance of specialized and expert legal and tax advice cannot be underestimated.

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GDPR Gets Real Image

GDPR Gets Real

Jason Straight

A procrastinator's guide to overcoming technical challenges in GDPR compliance.

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Cayman Court Facilitates Chapter 11 Restructuring of Parent Company Image

Cayman Court Facilitates Chapter 11 Restructuring of Parent Company

Tony Heaver-Wren, Jeremy Snead & Dave Bulley

the authors were heavily involved in the cross-border restructuring of CHC Group Ltd. (CHC Parent). CHC Parent was the ultimate holding company of the CHC Group (the Group), being one of the world's largest commercial helicopter services providers, primarily engaged in servicing the offshore oil and gas industry. This article provides a narrative about the case.

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