The 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.

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 practiced as a barrister in commercial, trust and succession law litigation in Ireland prior to moving in-house, working for Ford, General Motors and the Bank of Nova Scotia in both Europe and North America. He also holds a degree in Commerce from University College Dublin and a Barrister at Law Degree from the Honourable Society of Kings Inns in Dublin.