This special volume of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business is devoted to the offshore industry: an industry which is today flourishing and caters for clients ranging from multi-national corporations to high net worth individuals. The book contains separate chapters from all of the world's leading offshore jurisdictions and the authors describe the various vehicles available in their countries for minimizing liability to taxation. With the increasing interest in going offshore', competition is running high between the different jurisdictions and this has led to the...

This special issue of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business examines a variety of issues relating to international dispute resolution.

This edition of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business provides a general examination of issues vital to the world's economic recovery. In the field of company law, practitioners examine changes in Russia's corporate law and the new Ukrainian law governing joint-stock companies. In the area of competition law, lawyers review Serbia and Bulgaria's new laws on the protection of competition and the private enforcement of Articles 101 and 102 in Europe's national courts. Dispute resolution occupies two chapters, one dealing with best practices for drafting arbitration clauses and...

DENNIS CAMPBELL AND MARK MILLER Introduction Within the last decade, there has been significant expansion in both the frequency and quantity of direct foreign investment by Western countries and multinational 1 corporations (MNC's) in the forni of joint ventures in Eastern Europe. These joint ventures, as well as other forms of mutual-cooperation trade arrangements, represent positive evidence of the increasing enthusiasm towards East-West trans actions now found on both sides of the European frontier. The spirit with which Western governments and business interests have sought to expand...

This text examines the increasingly important area of consumer protection law in an international context. The contributing authors are legal practitioners and scholars from a variety of jurisdictions who have focused on the intricacies of consumer protection in their countries. Consumers are often aware that they have rights when purchasing, but are not always sure exactly what those rights are. This book elucidates and clarifies the many confusing aspects of this area of law, giving special regard to service standards, testing, advertising claims, trade descriptions and price controls.

The concept of the nation-state has as an essential element the control of territory, legal and political authority over the acquisition, ownership, use and disposition of land. The rapid increase during the 1970s in the pace of foreign 1 investment -with the acquisition of real property as a centerpiece-has stirred new concern for the ability and disability of aliens to invest in and acquire title 2 to the physical territory of a given state. With a variety of factors now stimulating 3 foreign investment in land, increased attention has been given in many countries to the role of the state...

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...

Shareholder liability was once discussed only in terms of liability for the debts of the corporation in which the shareholders hold interest. That is now a shifting scene, influenced in the main by the emergence of shareholder activism and derivative litigation, with its attendant increase of risk for officers and directors, and -fee shifting- provisions in corporate bylaws, allowing corporations to seek legal fees from unsuccessful shareholder plaintiffs.

In this edition of the Comparative Law Yearbook for International Business, practitioners from 10 jurisdictions examine...