In-house lawyers have plenty to keep them up at night when companies expand internationally. That was the consensus reached by in-house counsel speaking at the DLA Piper Global Technology Summit in Menlo Park on Wednesday, which included a panel discussion on the topic on the legal challenges to expanding globally.
“If it were only one or two risks, I wouldn’t be kept awake,” said Qualcomm Inc. general counsel Carol Lam. She said there is no such thing as a singular “international law.” Instead, there’s a patchwork of regional laws that sometimes—but more often don’t—overlap.
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