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Reducing Your Risk When Growing Your System Abroad

Growth can be expensive, but it is always more expensive when the expansion is taken without risk assessment. Whether domestic or foreign, many risks can be reduced or avoided by proper consideration of differences between where you are now and where you want to go.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Reed Smith Eyes US Merger and Plans ABS Conversion

The Am Law 100 firm is looking for ways to "future-proof" itself.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Nestle, Cargill Child Slavery Suit Gets Revived by 9th Circuit

Ninth Circuit Judge Dorothy Nelson: "In sum, the allegations paint a picture of overseas slave labor that defendants perpetuated from headquarters in the United States."
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Gibson Dunn Ends Saudi Arabia Lobbying Contract

The firm has declined to expand the scope of its lobbying to include meetings between Ted Olson, a former U.S. solicitor general under the George W. Bush administration, and members of Congress against legislation affecting oil-producing countries.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Financial Centers in Europe, Asia, Middle East Form Alliance

The alliance was proposed by the financial centers of Frankfurt, Moscow and Paris in December 2016 with plans to facilitate cooperation and the exchange of best practices to contribute to economic growth.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Global Arbitration Lawyers Flock to Saudi Arabian Conference Amidst Boycott

As "Davos in the Desert" dries up due to the controversy surrounding Jamal Khashoggi, international arbitration lawyers from around the world were scheduled to rub elbows with Saudi leadership at another conference down the road.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Amid Boycott, Saudi Arabian Conference Draws in Global Arbitration Lawyers

As "Davos in the Desert" dries up due to the controversy surrounding Jamal Khashoggi, international arbitration lawyers from King & Spalding and other big firms were scheduled to rub elbows with Saudi leadership at another conference down the road.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Cuba, Iran OFAC Sanctions Add Up to $5.3M for JPMorgan Chase

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control counted dozens of suspect transactions for two undisclosed airline associations with members in the U.S. and abroad.
4 minute read

International Edition

China's New Cybersecurity Rules Could Expose US Trade Secrets, Experts Say

Most companies that operate in China were already wary of losing their grip on intellectual property assets. Now, in light of the new, far-reaching rules, doing business in China is likely to be more challenging, privacy and information security lawyers say.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Human Rights Lawyer Who Fought Trump Travel Bans Picked for MacArthur Fellowship

The years of work that Becca Heller has put in as a human rights lawyer who works as director and co-founder of the Manhattan-based International Refugee Assistance Project has paid off in the form of a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
3 minute read

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