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Fighting Payment Fraud: Some key considerations for the EU legislator

9 September 2024

The Proposed CSDD Won't End Our Societal Sustainability Stalemate

When it comes to sustainable ESG, the past decade has felt like a massive re-enactment of the well-known Spiderman pointing meme: three supposed superheroes pointing at each other...

1 July 2022

Davine Roessingh

Dennis Horeman

Law and Autonomous Systems Series: Machine Performance and Human Failure

Autonomous machines are on the rise. In many use cases, their performance today already exceeds human capabilities. However, machines do not operate flawlessly—defects and accidents occur. This raises a couple of important regulatory...

2 November 2018

Horst Eidenmüller

Recouping Liquidation Costs through Litigation against Directors—a Dubious Practice

In the last few years there had sprung up in New Zealand a series of first instance cases where judges had acceded to pleas by liquidators that the damages for...

20 July 2018

Peter Watts

Blockchain & Liability

Over the past several years, interest in distributed ledger technology (‘DLT’), such as Blockchain, has exploded. Regulators, consultants, technology firms and academia are promoting DLT for financial services. Blockchain technology...

Increased Threshold to Trigger Directors' Liability in Insolvency Scenario?

IntroductionThe Sapin II Act of November 8 2016 amended the regime governing directors' liability in an insolvency scenario in order to encourage the recovery of honest directors of failed businesses.Article...

30 April 2017

Bird & Bird

Direct Claims Against UK Insurers of Insolvent Defendants

This post comes to us from Jones Day. It has been co-authored by Ian F. Lupson, ...

1 August 2016

Jones Day

Smart Contracts: the Next Frontier?

This post comes to us from Andy Robinson and Tom Hingley from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Before email (we are reliably informed), contracts would be posted, received, marked-up, re-posted...

23 May 2016

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal: Lessons for Corporate Governance? (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this post, I posed the question why risk-averse managers at VW might have failed to launch an internal investigation into any potential smoking guns...

18 May 2016

John Armour

Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal: Lessons for Corporate Governance? (Part 1)

Even hardened cynics were shocked by the revelations in September that Volkswagen had programmed its diesel cars to defeat emissions tests. Whilst it was no secret that manufacturers attempted to...

17 May 2016

John Armour

Fighting Payment Fraud: Some key considerations for the EU legislator

The Proposed CSDD Won't End Our Societal Sustainability Stalemate

Law and Autonomous Systems Series: Machine Performance and Human Failure

Recouping Liquidation Costs through Litigation against Directors—a Dubious Practice

Blockchain & Liability

Increased Threshold to Trigger Directors' Liability in Insolvency Scenario?

Direct Claims Against UK Insurers of Insolvent Defendants

Smart Contracts: the Next Frontier?

Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal: Lessons for Corporate Governance? (Part 2)

Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal: Lessons for Corporate Governance? (Part 1)

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