This is the fortieth volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, and it includes reports by practitioners and experts from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Germany, India, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Turkey, and the United States who deal with topics from national and regional perspectives. Authors from Australia and Turkey examine issues relating to investment. Authors from Italy, India, and Slovakia treat matters concerning corporate law. Authors from Germany, Italy, India, and the United States report on topics dealing with litigation and dispute resolution. Authors from Argentina, Belgium, and The Netherlands deal with issues relating to restrictive covenants, commercial law, and trade secrets.

This is the fortieth volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, and it includes reports by practitioners and experts from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Germany, India, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Turkey, and the United States who deal with topics from national and regional perspectives. Authors from Australia and Turkey examine issues relating to investment. Authors from Italy, India, and Slovakia treat matters concerning corporate law. Authors from Germany, Italy, India, and the United States report on topics dealing with litigation and dispute resolution. Authors from Argentina, Belgium, and The Netherlands deal with issues relating to restrictive covenants, commercial law, and trade secrets.

The current volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business addresses a variety of issues relating to the regulation of business entities and investment, as well as a range of general issues. In the fields of business entities and investment, practitioners from Panama, Brazil, Chile, Russia, Gibraltar, Canada, Singapore, Romania, Indonesia, and Hong Kong examine protection of minority shareholders, antitrust and competition law, securities regulation, corporate taxation, fund administration and management, joint ventures, protection of foreign investment, regulation of mutual funds, and corporate governance. Commentators from Nigeria, the United States, Japan, Spain, and The Netherlands also review issues relating to copyright and trade mark protection, court jurisdiction, insolvency, and telecommunications.

The Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, published under the aegis of the Center for International Legal Studies, Austria, in this 44th volume, aims to add to the contemporary discourse by exploring a wide array of challenges faced in the arena of business law. It serves to provide insight to business law practitioners and academics on the latest developments. The following topics have been discussed: How uniformity of the treaties and conventions is compromised after they are subjected to the varied interpretation of domestic law. How the contractual laws of different jurisdictions deal with situations such as global health crises. The role of the World Trade Organization in enhancing the legitimacy of global economic governance within the scope of the trade laws. How the concept of naked licensing in trademark law differs in the United States, United Kingdom, and India. How the best effort clauses operate as a mechanism to deal with unenforceable obligations in pandemic-like situations and how it is difficult to implement and comply with the same. Whether PRIME Finance is the last link in the global governance of financial institutions on international law-making or just a part of the social circle. Whether mediation should be made compulsory for all commercial litigation cases or is it time for the new rendition of Halsey v. Milton Keynes? The legal challenges faced by the adoption of Insurtech in the Fintech Industry. How the ex-post mechanism of Corporate Insolvency and Bankruptcy laws differs with respect to the rights and position of creditors in the liquidation process in India and Germany. How the Corporate Governance Code varies across different jurisdictions such as Mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Germany. How the international investment law uncovers the inequalities between foreign investors and states, developed and developing states, and foreign and domestic investors. The authors are practitioners and academics from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, China, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. They provide a nuanced perspective on a large spectrum of issues witnessed in the arena of business laws.

The Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, in its 2007 edition, treats two major topic areas: litigation and dispute resolution and banking and finance. The litigation and dispute resolution section examines various issues relating to international arbitration, such as the status of non-signatories, the employment of electronic discovery, the use of expert evidence, and costs. It further surveys the recognition of enforcement of foreign judgments in Italy, developments in litigation in Australia, Anton Pilar Orders and Internet defamation, and Italian conflict-of-law rules. The banking and finance section of the Yearbook examines Austrian capital maintenance rules, bank secrecy in Israel, and broker-dealer and investment banking strategies. Miscellaneous articles deal with Mexicoand’s commercial bankruptcy law, Slovakiaand’s new bankruptcy legislation, trade marks and the Madrid Protocol, trade mark registration in Hong Kong, franchising in Italy, data protection, Spanish antitrust legislation, and cartel enforcement in Australia.

In this thirty-eighth volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, once again practitioners and experts in a variety of legal fields examine issues from national and regional perspectives. Authors from Germany, Japan, Nigeria, and Poland deal with issues relating to data protection and privacy. Investment and infrastructure topics are examined by authors from Brazil, Colombia, Greece, and the United States. Subjects ranging from corporate responsibility, patent infringement litigation, and credit portfolio transfers to medical and family leave, food and beverage product representations, and distribution agreements are treated by authors from Belgium, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, and the United States.

The 2003 volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business deals with a variety of topics in the field of commercial law. These range from mergers in Nigeria and joint ventures in Thailand and Hungary to the fight against corruption on an international level, as well as corporate fraud in the United States, with attention being focused upon the new Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Some authors have dealt with subjects that involve finance, such as foreign investment in e-commerce in China, employees' stock purchases and option plans in the United States, pension funds in Nigeria and preferential tax regimes in Madeira. There is also a review of the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures. Other popular areas of commercial law that are covered in this volume include consumer protection in Bulgaria and alternative dispute resolution. Arbitration in Paraguay is discussed, along with the conducting of mediation by legal professionals. In addition, European Union law arises in relation to the likelihood of association, with another chapter detailing the economic association between Mexico and the European Union. The Commentators in this book are leading professionals in their respective fields and the interesting mix of topics should be of value to those involved in business in the international arena and their legal advisers.

The Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, published under the auspices of the Center for International Legal Studies, in this 43rd volume spans an arc of timely and challenging concerns for business law practitioners and academics alike. It discusses: how arbitrability of intellectual property rights disputes might improve worldwide IPR enforcement; how the "disregard of legal entity" may be used to establish implied consent by a person or entity that is not a signatory to an arbitration agreement; how an effective cross-border insolvency framework under the Indian insolvency and bankruptcy code can borrow from the UNCITRAL Model Law's and other jurisdictions' approaches to the tension between "universality" and "territoriality"; how a promising new mediation act for Pakistan may help resolve a backlog of millions of cases in a jurisdiction with a patchwork of traditional and modern alternative dispute resolution mechanisms; how the European Union seeks to balance the taxation of digital services; how Brazil is addressing the taxation of offshore indirect transfers; how private equity capital structures in the unique market of professional sports create opportunities as well as risks; how Securities Market Regulation theory plays a role in the organization and development of active securities markets, particularly in emerging markets; and how non-signatories can be bound by arbitration agreements in Brazil through "disregard of legal entity" to ascertain implied consent. The authors are practitioners and academics from Brazil, England, France, India, Pakistan, Singapore, the United States and Uzbekistan. They offer a broad and diverse perspective on some of today's pressing business law issues in a shrinking world.

With this edition of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International business, experienced practitioners examine a wide range of issues relating to corporate and investment law in Taiwan, Serbia, Switzerland, Japan, Greece, Germany, and the European Union, deal with franchising issues in Ukraine, Spain, Italy, and the review aspects of Internet governance and liability. In the Miscellaneous section of the Yearbook, practitioners review bankruptcy and insolvency in Arab countries, employment of expatriates in Nigeria, exchange controls in Venezuela, regulation of natural gas markets in Greece, and insurance mediation in Spain.