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Chapters A Comparison of Registered Design and Trade Mark Protection - A South African Perspective  A Critical Review of Existing Insurance Laws an Regulations in Nigeria  A Revolution in the Nigerian Petroleum Industry  Acquisition of Equity Interests in Italian Companies  Agency Contracts in Colombia  Agreement on Trade - Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - TRIPS  Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures: A Five-Year Review  Aircraft Financing and Leasing  Amendment to the Malaysian Trade Mark Act 1976: An Extension of Protection of Well-Known Trade Marks  Antidumping Investigations: Ukraine and the WTO  Antitrust in Brazil: Legal Aspects  Application of the Doctrine of Legitimate Expectation in Australian Immigration Cases  Arbitration as Dispute Resolution Mechanism in Mergers & Acquisitions  Arbitration Costs: Advance Payments and Reimbursement  Arbitration in Paraguay  Arbitration in Turkey  Arbitration Law Developments in Singapore  Arbitration Versus Litigation in Transnational Contracts: Recent Trends in the United States Relevant to Japanese Parties  Austrian Capital Maintenance Rules – A Challenge for Group-Finance Transactions?  Bank Secrecy in Israel  Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law the in Arab World  Best Practices for Drafting Arbitration Clauses  Binding Non-Signatories to International Arbitration  Brazilian Syndicalism and Collective Bargaining: Norms and Dispute Resolution  Business and Investment Law in the Ukraine  Business Law Aspects of the New Brazilian Civil Code  Cartel Investigations and Their Effects on International Companies Doing Business in Brazil  Challenges in International Arbitration for Non-Signatories  Changes in the Legislative Framework Applicable to Portuguese Companies  Chilean Securities Regulation  China Trials and Tribulations  Civil and Commercial Obligations under the New Romanian Civil Code  Claim and Dispute Resolution Provisions of FIDIC's 1999 Major Forms  Comity in Practice: Recent Developments in Foreign Insolvency Proceedings  Commercial Agency and Distribution in Egypt  Commercial and Controversial: the Ukraine Codifies Its Business Legislation  Commercial Companies in Portugal  Commerical Companies in Portugal  Companies and the UK Human Rights Act 1998: A Model for Domestic Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights?  Comparative Analysis of the Newly Enacted Korean Security Rights Registration Act  Comparative Visions of the Concept of Fiduciary Duty: Toward a Global Definition That Promotes Socially Responsible Investing  Competition and Universal Service Obligations in Brazil's Telecommunications Market  Computer Law in Greece  Computer Law in Hungary  Computer Law in Luxembourg  Concealed Employment in Selected Jurisdictions  Concealed Employment in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary  Consortium Agreements, Fifth Framework Regulations and Technology Transfer  Consumer Protection in Argentina  Consumer Protection in Spain  Contracts with Public Authorities  Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions in Turkey  Corporate Tax in Canada  Corporate Tax in Russia  credit crunch litigation  Criminal Law Implications of International Business Transactions  cross border mergers under German law  Current Foreign Capital Investments Regulation in Brazil  Current standard of duty of care of Chilean Corporate Directors: Consequences of the 'FASA' case  Cybertorts & Global Private Attorneys-General  Damage Caps: Recent Trends in American Tort Law  Data Protection Law in the European Union and the United Kingdom  Decentralisation of the EU Internal Market  Designing Legal Strategies to Address Institutional Effects on Telecommunications - Regulatory Regimes and Investment Decisions  Developments under the Federal Arbitration Act  Different ways of implementing the EU Market Abuse Directive (2003/6/EC), especially from a Swedish perspective  Digital Signature Act  Distribution Agreements in Spain  Distribution and “Commercial Representation”  Doing Business in Estonia  Doing Business in Guatemala  Economic dependency in franchising: is the franchisee a weak contracting party or simply an inattentive one?  Electronic Contracts and Signatures in Brazil  Electronic Contracts and Signiatures in Japan  Electronic Discovery and its Implications for International Arbitration  Emerging Data Protection Issues and Recent International Agreements  Employment Law in Estonia  Employment Laws in India  Employment of Expatriate Staff in Nigeria  Entertainment Law in Italy  Environment - Criminal Sanctions  Ethics of the Legal Professional  EU-Israel Trade in the Automobile Sector: Is Israel's High Taxation of Cars Legal under the Association Agreement?  European and American Law Affecting the Disabled Worker: A Guide for the Transnational Business  European Community Directives on Audio Visual Products and Their Application in Italian Law  European Cooperative Company  European Debate on the Takeover Directive  Exclusive Distribution Contract  Exit Clauses Applicable to Joint Ventures under Belgian Law  Expert Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration - Current Practice and New Trends  Financial Assistance and Acquisition Finance  Financial Collaterals in Slovenian Law  Foreign Exposure to American Antitrust Laws in the Patent Context  Foreign Investment in China: Law and Policy  Foreign Investment in Indonesia  Foreign Investment in Iran  Foreign Investmentin E-Commerce in China  Foreign Litigants in American Courts  Franchising Agreements in the Ukraine  Franchising Agreements under Italian Law  Franchising Law in Canada  French and European Law on Transfers of Undertakings and Protection of Employment  Frustration of Contract in French Law  Gibraltar  Give Me That Ol' Time Religion, but Perhaps not in the Workplace  Has China a Coherent Private Law? - Its Eastern and Western Origins  Hiring-Out of Workers in Europe  Implementation of the Market Abuse Directive  Independent Drug Testing Body of the IOC  India's Nuclear Liability Regime  Insider Trading in the Netherlands  Insolvency Risk and Creditors' Rights in Peru  Inspection Mechanisms of International Development Banks  Intellectual Property in Peru  Intellectual Property Licensing in Canada  Interconnection in Austria: Key Aspects from a European Perspective  International Arbitration Practice in Germany  International Broker-Dealer & Investment Banker Strategies  International Corporate Insolvency in Denmark  International Estate Planning - The First Step to an Asset Protection Plan  International Investment: An Overview of Multilateral, Regional and Bilateral Trade Related Investment Measures  International Joint Ventures in Colombia  International Merger and Acquisition Career of Telecom Italia: From Hunter to Prey  International Mergers and Acquisitions: Comparative Legislation  Investment Funds Law and Regulation in Serbia  Investment treaty disputes - selected Developments in 2008 and First Half of 2009  Investment Visa Categories to the United States and Hong Kong  Israel as a Trust and Business Center  Italian Rules on Conflict of Laws  Japanese Patent Act Revision 2011  Joint Ventures in Hungary  Joint Ventures in Singapore  Joint Ventures in Thailand  Key Amendments in the New Austrian Insolvency Code  Key Aspects of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions in Brazil  Labour and Employment Law and Pensions in Austria  Laws and Regulations on International M&A in Japan  Legal Considerations in the Merger, Consolidation, Acquisition or Takeover of a U.S. Company  Legal Framework of Privatization in Romania  Legal Issues Arising When Non-U.S. Athletes Choose to Compete Professionally in the United States  Legal Issues Surrounding "Lolita" and "Lo's Diary"  Legal Process Outsourcing and Legal Ethics  Legal Regime of Foreign Investment in Colombia  Legal Regulation of Foreign Investments in the Russian Federation  Legal Review of Greek Electricity and Gas Regulations  Legal Structures for Business in Argentina  Liberalization of Competition in the Brazilian Telecommunications Market  Licensing Intellectual Property in Mexico  Liechtenstein Tax law - Innovations, Restrictions and Influences  Likelihood of Association under the Influence of the European Community Law  Love it and 'leave' it: Comparing and Contrasting Irish and American Work Leave Statutes  Market Abuse in Finland - A Regulatory Regime in Transition  Mediation and Lawyers  Memorandum concerning the Main Aspects of the Organic Telecommunications Law in Venezuela  Merger Provisions of the Nigerian Federal Competition Bill  Mergers, Acquisitions and Foreign Capital Ownership in the Brazilian Cellular Telecommunications Market  Mexico-European Community Economic Association  Modernising Trust Law in Hong Kong  New Civil Code in Romania  New Class Action Law in Mexico  New Developments in Swiss Competition Law and their Impact on Foreign Undertakings  New forms of offering of foreign securities in Chile: 'Huaso Bonds' and MILA  New Legal Tendencies in Spain's Antitrust Legislation  New Portuguese Insolvency Code  New Reinsurance Regime in Argentina  New Romanian Civil Code  New Ukraine Bankruptcy Law  New Zealand’s Personal Grievance System  Observations on Trends and Developments in Public and Private Cartel Enforcement in Australia  Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Special Circumstances: Anton Piller Orders and the Internet Defamation  Opening of the Telecommunications Market in Costa Rica: Key aspects of the new regulatory framework  Outlook on Carbon Trading Practice  Outsourcing in a Global Market: United States  Outsourcing Legal Services in France  Outsourcing Legal Services: Impact on US Law Practices  Overview of the Most Recent Changes in the Corporate Laws of the Russian Federation  Panama's Substantive Law on Captive Insurance Company  Panamanian Securities Legislation: The Road to Transparency and Accountability  Pension Funds in Nigeria  Piercing of the Corporate Veil in Brazilan Law  Piercing of the Corporate Veil in Brazilian Law  Piercing the Corporate Veil: Proposal for a New Law in Mexico  Preventive Law in Belgium  Privacy Protection in Digital Age  Private International Law and insolvency proceedings  Private International Law and insolveny proceedings in Spain  Processing of Personal Data in the Employment Context in Hungary  Protecting United States-Based Assets Owned by Non-United States Debtors  Protection and Benefits to Private Investments in Peru  Protection and Registration of Industrial Designs in Indonesia  Protection of Consumers of Financial Services in Nigera  Protection of Foreign Copyrights and Trademarks under Nigerian Law  Protection of Foreign Investment in Romania  Provisional Measure No. 1710-1 of September 18, 1998  Public Private Partnerships  Public Private Partnerships in Greece  Real Property Law in Spain  Recent Canadian Trends in Extraterritorial Taxation  Recent developments in Australia regarding amendments to patent specifications during infringement proceedings  Recent Developments in Litigation in Australia  Recent Practice and Experience with the Swiss Merger Act  Recent Trends as to the Liability for Wrongful Trading of Directors of Finnish Companies  Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Italy  recovery of damages under Argentine law  Regulation of Mutual Funds in Indonesia  Residence Permit for Self Employed Persons  Responsible Resource Development: An Opportunity for Uganda  Restructuring and refinancing routes of mortgage-secured debt in Spain  Romanian Corporate Governance Principles under Capital Markets and Securities Law  Romanian Law on Electronic Commerce  Romanian regulation on shares  Rules of the Litigation in an International Trial Judged in Romania  Securities Exchange Law in Taiwan  Securities Law in Spain  Security Interests in Immovables and Related Property  Security Interests on Real Estate in Argentina  Serbia's New Law on Protection of Competition  Setting-aside, Recognition and Enforcement of Private Commercial Arbitration Awards in Mexico  Settlement of Investment Disputes in Nigera  significant amendments under New Turkish Commercial Code concerning Joint Stock Companies  Slovakia's New Bankruptcy Act - Tilts Playing Field Toward Debtors  Slovakia's New Bankruptcy Act Tilts Playing Field Toward Debtors  Societas Europaea  Spanish Competition Law  Spanish Telecommunications: A Business Case  Square Pegs in Round Holes: The Impact of Western Norms in Corporate Governance Practices in Hong Kong  Swedish and UK Takeover Regulations and Their Supervision  Swiss Disclosure Rules on Significant Shareholdings - Overview and Recent Developments  Tax and Investment in the Czech Repbulic  Tax incentives for U.S. and Foreign Pharmaceutical Companies to Enter into Out-Sourcing Arrangements with Unrelated Puero Rico Manufacturers  Telecommunications Law in Colombia  Telecommunications Law in the Netherlands  Telecommunications Law in the Philippines  Telecommunications Law in the United States  Telecommunications Liberalization in Argentina  Termination of Franchise Agreements  The Ability to Bridge Cultural Differences: A Prerequisite for Good Counsel in International Transactions  The Absence of a Market for Corporate Control for Panamian Public Corporations: Replicating Its Effects as a Mechanism for the Protection of Minority Shareholders  The Competition Act, 2002  The Efficacy of the Legal Framework for Settlement of Trade Disputes in Nigeria  The European Commission's proposed directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers: Inevitable Regulations with an unpredictable impact  The European Insolvency Regulation and Its Application in the Member States  The Exchange Control Regulations in Venezuela  The Extending frontiers for PE business in Nigeria: Understanding the legal and regulatory framework  The French Perspective on Company Duties in a Transfer of Undertakings  The Harmonization of Trademark Law as a Mean to Fight Intellectual Property Rights Violations  The International Commercial Aribtration in Italy  The Japanese Court's Jurisdiction Over International Cases  The Law on Protection of Competition  The Most Common Anti-Crisis Measure: Reducing the Workforce  The New Chilean Competition Act  The New Corporation Law in Japan  The New Spanish Insurance Mediation Act  The New Turkish Commercial Code  The Next Battleground in Antitrust Litigation: Private Enforcement of Articles 81 and 82 in the Courts of the European Union's Member States  The OECD and the Work on Harmful Tax Competition: Preferential Tax Regimes from a Perspective of the Island of Madeira  The Panamanian Legislation on Private Interest Foundation  The Prevalence of Employment Law Class Actions Knows no Frontier  The regulation of the Franchise Contract under Spanish Law Special reference to the Spanish Franchisors Registry  The regulation of the Franchise Contract under Spanish Law Special reference to the Spanish Franchisors Registry  The Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002  The Spanish Insolvency Act 2003  The Success of the Mexican Reorganization Law in Cross - Border Insolvency Cases  The UNIDROIT Principles for International Commercial Contracts: Harmonization and the Growth of International Commercial Law in the Asia-Pacific Region  The United States Federal False Claims Act and Employee Qui Tam Suits: Impact on Non-United States Companies  The Use of Intellectual Property as Collateral In Secured Financing: Practical Concerns  The Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods  The War against Corruption Goes International  Trade Dress or Packaging  Trade Mark Registration in Hong Kong  Trademark Counterfeiting and Unfair Competition in Romania  Transactions Secured with Real Property  Transactions Secured with Real Property in Mexico  Turkey's Merger Control Regime  Ukraine Adopts Law on Joint Stock Companies  Unfair Competition Cases for Breach of Secrecy in Colombia  United States Business Immigration  United States Securities Law Implications of Employee Stock Purchase and Option Plans  United States-China Relations on Intellectual Property Issues  Western Property Laws in China and Indonesia  What to Expect as American Asbestos Litigation Industry Moves to Europe  Wind Project Risk Analysis: Which Way does the Wind Blow in Central America