Countries in Africa suffering the effects of the oil crisis have the opportunity to diversify their economies by developing their energy, tourism, agribusiness and infrastructure sectors
Amendments to law mean board secretaries should take a supervisory role in relation to compliance and should ideally have a legal background
Knowledge of cybercrime among company directors is improving, but many board members are ‘technologically challenged’ and don’t act on information
Partnership between the legal sectors in the four countries that make up the Latin American trade bloc is vital if the alliance is to reduce business risk and attract investment
External law firms must understand better the role of in-house lawyers and ‘provide advice in bullet points, not 30-page memos’
Transparency is the best way for arbitrators to eliminate any suspicions about their impartiality and independence
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa – such as Angola and Mozambique – are making progress on introducing business-friendly reforms, but ‘predictability in regulation´ is crucial
EU antitrust damages directive aims to frame the national procedural rules applicable to actions for damages relating to breaches of competition law
Companies may be better served if they give responsibility for data-protection to more practically minded employees, such as IT professionals
Experts say that IBA´s new guidelines for conflicts of interest in arbitrations will better enable those accused of impartiality to counteract such challenges
