Uk and Emea Corporate Counsel Handbook

A unique and invaluable aid to corporate counsel, and other legal advisors, to guide corporate response and decision making, presented with ease of accessibility and a practical, pragmatic focus. It is a first port of call for those charged with advising their key business leaders on difficult and disputed legal issues that engage and tax the board room.

It presents the legal considerations implicit in the business functional areas common to commercial practice, be it sales, productions, marketing, human resources, finance and accounting etc, and additionally explores some of the following topics that are typically top of corporate counsel agenda:

- Commercial Contracting, with particular emphasis on the risks of Agency and Distribution arrangements in EMEA
- Regulatory and Legal Compliance considerations across EMEA
- Product compliance
- Advertising and Promotion within EMEA
- Geo-Political Legal Considerations

It also includes helpful chapters on the topics of Company Secretariat obligations, geopolitical legal considerations in EMEA and the emerging field of Islamic commercial and legal interface with local law.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 1 Regarding the ‘Business of the Business’
Chapter 2 Selling in EMEA
Chapter 3 Agency and distribution agreements
Chapter 4 Advertising and promotion
Part 2 Regarding Humans: The Heartbeat of the Business
Chapter 5 Human resources
Part 3 Regarding the Governance of the Business
Chapter 6 Accounting and the law
Chapter 7 Anti-corruption
Chapter 8 Anti-money laundering
Chapter 9 Antitrust and anticompetitive practices
Chapter 10 Communications compliance
Chapter 11 Data protection in the EMEA
Chapter 12 Environmental, social and governance
Chapter 13 Product compliance and related issues
Chapter 14 Transparency and fairness in supply chains
Part 4 Regarding Geo-political Upheaval and the Business
Chapter 15 Geo-political considerations for corporate counsel – Brexit
Part 5 Regarding the Future of the Business
Chapter 16 Future challenges and opportunities
Part 6 Regarding any other Business
Chapter 17 Primer in trusts
Appendix A EU controller to non EU/EEA processor – standard clauses
Appendix B EU controller to non EU/EEA controller – standard clauses
Appendix C EU controller to non EU/EEA controller – standard clauses
Appendix D Specimen CCTV policy – EMEA
Appendix E Specimen AML policy – EMEA
Appendix F Specimen third party due diligence policy – sanctions screening policy – EMEA
Appendix G Specimen modern slavery/transparency in supply chains statement
Appendix H Specimen competition policy – EMEA
Appendix I EU Preparedness Statements on Brexit*
Appendix J Types of undertakings to which the accounting directive applies

About the author

Walter Thomas practiced as a solicitor prior to moving in house and over the past 19 years has worked for the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, SDL PLC, ESAB Holdings, ACI Worldwide, Esselte Group Holdings (Luxembourg) S.A and currently works as Associate General Counsel, EMEA for ACCO Brands EMEA.Robert Grimes is In-house Counsel for Brown Bag Films, a multi-award winning and Oscar nominated animation studio in Dublin, having previously served as General Counsel, and member of the Executive Management team at Lighthouse Studios, and In-house Counsel for Cartoon Saloon. Rob advises on the legal aspects of creating indigenous intellectual property and producing animated content for partners such as Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney, Amazon and Warner Bros.

He started his career in investment banking in London and later practiced as a barrister in Ireland, litigating commercial, trust and succession law cases. He has authored several legal textbooks, including the Irish Probate Practitioners Handbook, the Probate Pocketbook, and Succession Law in a Nutshell (Thomson Reuters) and also the UK and EMEA Corporate Counsel Handbook (Bloomsbury Professional), established and edited the Irish Probate Law Journal and has contributed chapters to a range of other published texts. Rob has since worked internationally as a senior in-house lawyer at Ford, General Motors and ACCO Brands plc. He holds a degree (with a specialisation in economics and finance) from University College Dublin, a Diploma in Legal Studies and Barrister-at-law degree from the Honourable Society of Kings Inns in Dublin.

Summary

A unique and invaluable aid to corporate counsel, and other legal advisors, to guide corporate response and decision making, presented with ease of accessibility and a practical, pragmatic focus. It is a first port of call for those charged with advising their key business leaders on difficult and disputed legal issues that engage and tax the board room.

It presents the legal considerations implicit in the business functional areas common to commercial practice, be it sales, productions, marketing, human resources, finance and accounting etc, and additionally explores some of the following topics that are typically top of corporate counsel agenda:

- Commercial Contracting, with particular emphasis on the risks of Agency and Distribution arrangements in EMEA
- Regulatory and Legal Compliance considerations across EMEA
- Product compliance
- Advertising and Promotion within EMEA
- Geo-Political Legal Considerations

It also includes helpful chapters on the topics of Company Secretariat obligations, geopolitical legal considerations in EMEA and the emerging field of Islamic commercial and legal interface with local law.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.

Foreword

Enables the practitioner to fast track the identification of salient and latent issues for internal clients and stakeholders across jurisdictions, navigating the business towards practical responses to common legal issues.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Grimes, Grimes Robert, Walter Thomas, Walter Grimes Thomas, Thomas Walter
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781526509505
• ISBN: 978-1-5265-0950-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Criminal Practice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, LAW / Commercial / General, LAW / International, International Law, Company law