THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

High Court ruling acknowledges the extraterritorial effect of US secondary sanctions.

With the rising popularity of arbitration, companies are seeking resources to help them understand the cost regimes and distinguishing features of leading arbitral institutions. Global Co-Chair of Latham's International Arbitration Practice Claudia Salomon and Litigation & Trial associate Shreya Ramesh share their primer for understanding these arbitration costs and differentiators with Bloomberg Law.

English High Court stays litigation pending mediation.

Article in Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal examines two procedural changes that impact concurrent district court patent infringement litigation and inter partes proceedings before the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Latham lawyers Stuart Alford QC, Nathan Seltzer, Christopher Ting, and Harriet Slater have authored an article for the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.

The 2019 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters offers certainty in cross-border enforcement of judgments.

The French National Financial Prosecutor and the French Anticorruption Agency have released guidelines on the French deferred prosecution agreement, that offers a few welcome clarifications.

Unternehmen müssen künftig öfter auf Auskunftsanträge und Schadensersatzklagen reagieren.

Objective test applies if a prior concluded contract exists, but subjective test applies if there is a continuing common intention.

Guidance sets out the SFO’s expectations for investigations but leaves open questions, particularly for cross-border investigations.