A record 115 countries and government entities across the globe are regulating mergers and acquisitions, a 69% spike from the 68 jurisdictions that monitored mergers five years ago, according to a new White & Case survey. The 115 jurisdictions that currently police mergers include 110 countries plus regional regimes such as the European Union’s European [...]

There has been a spate of blog posts this week concerning the aspects of electronic discovery when U.S. litigation crosses borders into the European Union — an entity with strong privacy laws.  The lead off article was in the National Law Journal which you can access here. Further comment was provided by an exchange between [...]

We spent the last 9 days in Chicago, D.C., NYC and Philadelphia.  We met with Posse List members, law firms, e-discovery companies and staffing agencies, as well as a few in-house corporate legal departments where we have contacts.  We even managed meetings with our friends at the DOJ and some members of the Association of [...]

The following summarizes the replies we’ve made to various Posse members who have requested information on working in Europe.  If you have more questions not answered here, feel free to mail us: manager@theposselist.com.  We have two staff members who live in Europe and they handle these questions.  Our affiliate company in Brussels staffs projects in [...]