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.

This updated textbook explains the legal concepts, regimes and actors that regulate international business transactions. The book guides readers through the major aspects of international business law using state-of-the-art teaching techniques and offers comprehensive coverage on key treaties, legal aspects of international commerce and the regulation of global trade and investment.

Law of Cross-Border Business Transactions aims at giving a structured introduction to the law and practice of investment deals (e.g., greenfield projects, M&As and hybrid forms) and of non-investment transactions (e.g., trade, technology transfer and services). Cross-border business deals are nowadays routine matters for business entities all over the world and the related legal aspects are becoming more and more complex. This book provides extensive general background information. It also covers numerous specific issues of relevance in the context of cross-border projects. Substantive law issues, procedural aspects and skills-related considerations such as contract drafting, structuring options and cross-cultural lawyering techniques are included, adding up to an unusually comprehensive and useful guide in the field. What's in this book: The author describes a wide spectrum of transaction types. He explains underlying principles from a conceptual and a comparative point of view with a focus on transactional issues, using case studies from a variety of jurisdictions to demonstrate the significance of particular aspects in the context of multi-jurisdictional legal practice. Among much else, topics include the following: international lawyering and cultural diversity; lex mercatoria; conflict of laws; letters of intent, position papers, heads of agreement, confidentiality and exclusivity agreements; structure and contents of international contracts; e-contracts and smart contracts; protection of intellectual property rights and technology transfer; trade, countertrade and trade financing; insurance; agency and distributorship; greenfield investments and M&As; competition law and merger control; employment law; corporate governance and corporate social responsibility; international taxation; and dispute settlement and cross-border enforcement of awards. This second edition updates the discussion of the different topics comprehensively. It also expands many parts and adds sections in relation to new themes that have gained importance since the publication of the first edition. In particular, it addresses legal issues arising out of the digitalization of the global economy with a special focus on choice-of-law questions, smart contracts, e-bills of lading and online dispute settlement. It also draws attention to the impact of China's Belt and Road initiative, Brexit and the 'America First' foreign policy. How this will help you: Of special value is the author's precise guidance on drafting techniques and contract practice. The clarity of the presentation, the uncompromising consistency in terms of structure and a large body of references to primary and secondary sources presented in this edition ensure that legal professionals, business managers and academics as well as other interested parties can gain easy access to comprehensive and detailed information across jurisdictions.

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 is a special break-out edition adapted from the authors' widely used International Business Transactions: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook , 11th. The purpose of this volume is to facilitate a focused study of the law of international trade and economic relations. After a brief introduction to the conduct of business in the world community, the book uses hypothetical problems to present some of the most typical and important issues regarding imports, exports, technology transfers, and dispute settlement in conjunction with related readings and materials. The primary focus is on lawyers, public and private, as problem solvers.

This book is a successor to Robin Burnett's Law of International Business Transactions. It provides an up-to-date analysis of the legal environment for international trade and covers:the changes made to payment and letters of credit by reason of the adoption of the UCP 600, which became effective in 2007, and other means of payment which are currently used;the provisions and possible adoption of the UNCITRAL Draft Convention on the Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea;recent developments in the law relating to international sale of goods;the question of international arbitration and other means of dispute resolution; andthe strategies and issues of international operations while incorporating and building on the comprehensive information and material in the previous book.It will assist practitioners and students in their understanding of the legal and practical aspects of international and overseas trade and operations.