This second edition provides an up to date description and analysis of the relevant international treaties, legislation, administrative practices and rulings by international and domestic courts and tribunals. This text is essential for any student or practitioner dealing with international business transactions.

The authors of International Business Transactions: Problems, Cases, And Materials have compiled multi-lateral agreements, model codes, and U.S. statutory law in a Documents Supplement that supports and enriches the study of this dynamic field of law. The supplement features multilateral agreements from various United Nations Conventions, the International Chamber of Commerce, the World Trade Organization, and other leading international organizations. Selected provisions from the Uniform Commercial Code and various international treaties are included, along with guidelines for multinational business enterprises for organizations such as the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). New to the Fourth Edition: TThe 2017 amended version of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) (1995) Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgements in Civil and Commercial Matters (Recast) (Recast Regulation) The 2018 revised versions of: Alien Tort Claims Act (Alien Tort Statute) (ACTA, ATS) Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA), 46 U.S.C.A. § 30701 hist. n. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA): Anti-Bribery and Books & Records Provisions (Selected Provisions) The 2011 revised version of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

This course book offers entertaining and systematically organized content to explain the many complex legal regimes governing international business transactions. The book is written by an experienced international business lawyer and introduces all major legal aspects of cross-border business, focusing on U.S.-based law practice. This book covers transactional, regulatory, and treaty regimes, with special emphasis on the modern need to protect intellectual property and plan for disputes. It integrates visual aids, career advice by eminent practicing attorneys in each legal field, policy problems, and practice problems to hone skills in issue spotting and applied legal analysis.

In developing countries, because of economic development pressures that deeply pervade all aspects of enterprise, international business transactions give rise to crucial issues that practitioners cannot afford to ignore. In this new book Rumu Sarkar, whose Development Law and International Finance has quickly taken its place as the preeminent theoretical analysis of the new legal discipline of development law, at last gives busy lawyers engaged in international business as practical a text as they could desire. Transnational Business Law shows that the decisions and strategies of lawyers involved in the hectic daily routines of creating and executing cross-border transactions can serve the best interests not only of their businesses but of economic development as well. In essence, this is a classic international business transactions handbook, with the overarching dimension of development law added. It offers detailed principles for structuring transactions, negotiating the underlying finance and related documents, and navigating dispute resolution mechanisms. It provides annotated forms, negotiating exercises, hypothetical examples, and actual case summaries and analyses. It presents economic development issues as they arise in such areas of activity as the following: cross-border financing of goods and services, technology transfers, and intellectual capital; structuring cross-border transactions through private equity, corporate debt, and multilateral development bank financing; managing commercial risks; negotiating debt work-outs for non-performing loans; mitigating non-commercial risks through credit enhancement strategies such as obtaining political risk insurance; and contracting for arbitration or other dispute resolution methods. Important factors such as 'long-arm' U.S. law, international legal regulation of business conduct, and relevant underlying local law and local legal traditions are all brought to bear on the issues when appropriate. Transnational Business Law will be especially useful to practitioners in developing countries whose legal decisions in relation to cross-border transactions often involve critical economic and political ramifications. Through her detailed exploration of how international transactions unfold within the context of economic development, Professor Sarkar greatly enhances the growth of a commitment among the international business community to achieve mutually constructive ways to conduct business between developed and developing countries.