Publications — Articles

2008


April

04-16-2008
Association of Foreign Banks Newsletter - You and Your Temp Secretary: Maybe not so Temporary
By Nicola Whiteley

March

03-24-2008
Introduction to Private Water Infrastructure Financing in California
By Bob Feyer and John Wang
03-21-2008
Clarity on U.S. Repo Rights: A Good Decision for Mortgage Securities
By Jim Croke
03-17-2008
Stoneridge Alters Legal Landscape - National Law Journal
By Daniel Tyukody and Michael Hefter
03-13-2008
Data Protection Issues on EU Outsourcing
By Saam Golshani, Alastair Gorrie and Diego Rigatti
03-07-2008
Legal Business Publication - Major Sharad Samy: A Few Good Men
By Sharad Samy

February

02-28-2008
Foreign Investors in RMB Funds Face Double Taxation After China's Tax Reform
By Qingsong (Kevin) Wang
02-25-2008
Orrick partners Mark Beck and Walter Brown discuss trends in white collar criminal defense in California Lawyer

January

01-03-2008
Foreign Investment Industry Catalogue: New Revisions & Alignment with National Development Strategy
By Thomas Y. Man, Yan Zeng and Jing (Jean) Sun

2007


December

12-13-2007
Employee Recruitment and Hiring: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls
By Jill Rosenberg
12-03-2007
After 'eBay,' Injunctions Decrease - The National Law Journal
By Rob Isackson
12-03-2007
CDO Focus People to Know: Martin Bartlam

November

11-13-2007
Mike Torpey and Bob Varian Participate in Securities Roundtable

October

10-17-2007
Serendipity of Detection by Governmental Agencies in the United States of Major Financial Fraud: The Shooting Star Effect
By Frederick Holden, Jr.
10-15-2007
On a Safe Track? Recent Reforms in China's Pharmaceutical Regulatory Regime
By Elizabeth Cole
10-15-2007
Should Creditors Rely on the New PRC Enterprise Bankruptcy Law as a Useful Collection Remedy?
By Frederick Holden, Jr.
10-11-2007
How a SIV was Saved
By Jim Croke, Jonathan Gross
10-01-2007
Advertising and Marketing Litigation Best Practices
By Alastair Gorrie
10-01-2007
Partly Paid Notes, Global Report 2007, IFLR
By Patrizio Messina, Raul Ricozzi, Alessia Frisina

September

09-24-2007
A legal review of the Italian securitisation market - a new market for Italian covered bonds, published in Global Securitisation Review 2007/2008, Euromoney Yearbooks, 2007
By Patrizio Messina, Alessia Frisina,
09-21-2007
China Outbound Portfolio Investment: Fleshing Out Regulations For QDII Securities Institutions & Insurers
By Neal A. Stender, Xiaowei (Sherry) Yin and Xueyan (Sylvia) Gao
09-17-2007
Criminalization of Non-Compliance - A Roundtable Discussion featuring Orrick partner Walt Brown, published in GC California magazine

August

08-27-2007
Scope of Primary Liability - published in The National Law Journal
By Daniel Tyukody and Michael Hefter
08-23-2007
China Further Cuts Export Tax Rebate Rate – Policy, Trends and Impacts
By Qingsong (Kevin) Wang and Peter Connors
08-22-2007
Intellectual Property in the Brave New World of User-Created Games
By Gabriel Ramsey
08-01-2007
Repos Rising: New Structures Created by U.S. Bankruptcy Laws
By Jim Croke, Jonathan Gross

July

07-26-2007
SAFE Plugs Holes for China/Offshore Round-trip Investments
By Neal A. Stender, Selena M. She and Mingyi (Calvin) Jin
07-25-2007
China's Cut of Export VAT Refund Rate–Policy, Trends and Impacts
By Qingsong (Kevin) Wang and Peter Connors
07-15-2007
Pending Legislation to Expedite Corporate Reorganization in the Philippines
By Frederick Holden, Jr.
07-11-2007
"Supreme Court's Twombly Ruling Will Mean Higher Pleading Requirements for Some Securities Litigation Claims" published in the Securities Reform Act Litigation Reporter
By Michael Tu and Lucy Buford

June

06-30-2007
China Outbound Investment: Banks' Scope Broadened, Trusts Added
By Neal Stender and Sherry Yin
06-26-2007
A Practical Guide to Sophisticated User Defense in N.Y.
By Peter Bicks and Sarah Walcavich
06-11-2007
Implementing regulations of article 7-bis of Law 130
By Patrizio Messina, Alessia Frisina
06-06-2007
KSR v. Teleflex in Brief
By Cynthia A. Zuniga
06-01-2007
America's Framework: Market at Crossroads on Covered Bonds
By Jim Croke, Thomas Mitchell, Jonathan Gross

May

05-21-2007
PRC Taxes on Hong Kong & Foreign Companies: Clarifications, Changes, Challenges & Opportunities
By Neal Stender, Qingsong (Kevin) Wang and Peter Connors
05-02-2007
Developers Beware: Realism Can Come with a Lawsuit and a Hefty Price Tag
By Jason Angell and Siddhartha Venkatesan

April

04-16-2007
Symposium on Recent Developments in Securities Law as published in Securities Reform Act Litigation Reporter
04-16-2007
PLC Cross-Border Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook 2007
By Frederick Holden, Jr., Partner, and Alyssa Englund, Associate
04-11-2007
Evolving Corporate Reorganization in the Philippines, in Tandem with and Potentially Ahead of the U.S. Model
By Frederick Holden, Jr.

March

03-30-2007
Expansion Of International Arbitration In Latin America
By Alex Vallejo
03-30-2007
Partners Dan Tyukody and Bob Varian discuss current securities litigation issues in California Lawyer magazine
03-29-2007
China Introduces Tax Incentives for Venture Capital Investments in High-Tech Sector
By Qingsong (Kevin) Wang
03-23-2007
Analysis and Perspective: Amendment to California's Trade Secret Statute
By Thomas J. Gray and Daniel J. Weinberg
03-13-2007
Representative Roulette - Individual and Corporate Risks & Precautions Affected by China Law Changes
By Neal Stender, William Soileau and Yan Zeng
03-09-2007
Orrick partners Walt Brown and Melinda Haag discuss stock option backdating and attorney-client privilege in California Lawyer

February

02-16-2007
Orrick Partner Laurie Strauch Weiss and Associate Adam Zimmerman in the New York Law Journal: How One State's Law May Reshape the Vioxx Litigation
By Laurie Strauch Weiss and Adam Zimmerman
02-01-2007
Into the Lite
By Jim Croke, Thomas Mitchell, Sharad Samy

January

01-23-2007
Shareholder Suits: The Roles and Motivations of Minority Shareholders and Directors in Derivative Suits
By Alessandro De Nicola
01-22-2007
Security Regard
By Michelle Taylor

2006


December

12-23-2006
Surf's up on Capital Hill
By Adam Goldberg and Preston Burton
12-19-2006
New Hong Kong-China Tax Arrangement Lowers China Witholding Taxes for Foreign Direct Investments & Operations
By Neal Stender, Qingsong Kevin Wang and Yan Zeng
12-01-2006
Loan-Only Credit Default SWAPS
By Martin Bartlam and Karin Artmann
12-01-2006
State Administration of Industry and Commerce and requirements for foreign invested companies to appoint supervisors
By Neal Stender, Yan Zeng, David Tang, Kevin Wang

November

11-01-2006
China M&A competition review filings
By Neal Stender, Yan Zeng and Kevin Wang

October

10-30-2006
Structuring investments and operations: China and Hong Kong update
By Neal Stender, Qingsong Wang and Yan Zeng
10-09-2006
New Grounds for Unlawful Discrimination Highlighted
By Nicola Whitely
10-09-2006
Effective Management of High-Profile Corporate Crisis: Why Attorneys with Privileges Must Take the Lead
By Lanny Davis, Adam Goldberg and Joshua Galper
10-01-2006
Partners Mike Torpey and Bob Varian discuss securities litigation issues in California Lawyer magazine
10-01-2006
"Court Confusion" - An analysis of the divide among U.S. courts over applying the Central Bank ruling, as published in International Financial Law Review
By Daniel Tyukody

September

09-18-2006
Securitisation sensation
By Martin Bartlam, Karin Artmann
09-06-2006
National Law Journal Roundtable: Orrick Partner Bob Freitas Discusses Recent Supreme Court Decisions on Antitrust
09-01-2006
China Customs Valuation: Software Exempted; E-Content and IP Royalties Still at Risk
By Neal Stender, Cliff Mok and Zhihua David Tang
09-01-2006
China’s Foreign Invested Companies Changing and Converging with Domestically Owned Companies
By Neal Stender, Yan Zeng, Zhihua David Tang and Qingsong Kevin Wang
09-01-2006
Securitization plugs gaps in health funding, The 2006 Guide to Structured Finance, IFLR
By Patrizio Messina, Alessia Denaro
09-01-2006
Selected Aspects of The European Securitisation Practice
By Martin Bartlam, Pascal Agboyibor and Patrizio Messina
09-01-2006
Leveraged Acquisition Finance
By Hazel Miller
09-01-2006
Structured Finance and Securitisation
By Martin Bartlam
09-01-2006
Covered Bonds
By Pascal Agboyibor, Martin bartlam and Patrizio Messina

August

08-24-2006
How to cope when your top team resigns - First appeared in People Management on 14 September 2006 and reproduced by permission
By Nicola Whiteley
08-24-2006
Transactions on 'raw' healthcare receivables in the Italian market practice, Global Securitisation Review 2006/2007, Euromoney Yearbooks
By Patrizio Messina, Alessia Denaro

July

07-21-2006
Overview of Injunctive Relief in Patent Cases in Japan and the United States
By Alex Chachkes
07-01-2006
Green Energy Invites Investment, China Business Review, Posted with the permission of the US-China Business Council, Washington, D.C.
By Neal Stender and Evan Lestelle
07-01-2006
China Liberalization of Outbound Portfolio Investment: Precursor to QDII
By Neal Stender, Sherry Yin and Nicholas Sheets
07-01-2006
Current Foreign Exchange Reforms by SAFE
By Neal Stender, Lei Lui, Nicholas Sheets and Yan Zeng

June

06-12-2006
New Opportunities Opened up in the Italian Market: Covered Bonds (Law 80/2005)
By Patrizio Messina
06-02-2006
Selected Legal Aspects of the European Securitisation Practice, published by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, 2006
By Pascal Agboyibor, Martin Bartlam, Patrizio Messina
06-01-2006
Survival Strategies in the New IP Economy
By Bob Cote and Rodger Sadler

April

04-30-2006
Introduction to Pollution Control Financing in California
By Robert P. Feyer
04-18-2006
Covered BONDS - a global taxation perspective, The Euromoney Corporate Tax Handbook 2006
By Peter Connors, Patrizio Messina, Stephane Salou, George Wolf
04-05-2006
Orrick Partner Michael Tu's article on corporate liability under California's securities laws
04-01-2006
Renewable Energy Law Encourages a Hundred Flowers to Bloom
By Neal Stender, Zhihua David Tang and Qingsong Kevin Wang

March

03-17-2006
Orrick Partner Jonathan Ocker discusses proposed SEC's executive compensation disclosure rules in "8-K" Magazine
03-17-2006
Orrick Partner William Alderman discusses SEC executive compensation disclosure rules and their potential litigation impacts in "8K" magazine
03-17-2006
Orrick Partner Michael Tu's article on trends in securities class action litigation in in "GC California" magazine
03-17-2006
Orrick Partner Michael Torpey discusses internal investigations in the Corporate Governance Roundtable of "GC California"
03-17-2006
Orrick Partners Michael Torpey and Robert Varian discuss trends in securities litigation in "California Lawyer"

February

02-21-2006
An Explanation of Clean Renewable Energy Bonds
By Edwin Oswald, Michael Larsen

January

01-09-2006
Orrick Tax Articles January 2006
01-02-2006
Securitisation Transactions on Healthcare Receivables in the Italian Market
By Patrizio Messina

2005


November

11-21-2005
Securities Regulation and Legal Reforms: The Wind Still Blows From the West
By George T. Yates, III
11-08-2005
Privacy and Data Protection Conference Synopsis
By Alastair Gorrie
11-07-2005
Commercial agreements and competition law: An extract from The 2006 European Antitrust Review, a Global Competition Review special report
By Alastair Gorrie
11-01-2005
It's SAFE Again for China Venture Capital Round-trips and Red-chip Listings
By Neal Stender, Yan Zeng, Sherry Yin and Ying Zhu

October

10-01-2005
Solid Waste Recycling & Disposal: Manufacturers, Resellers & Land Acquirers Risk Liability as China's Domestic Standards Converge with EU
By Neal Stender and Yan Zeng
10-01-2005
China's New Environmental Impact Assessment Law
By Neal Stender, Dong Wang and Jing Zhou

September

09-14-2005
Using Descriptive Marks to One’s Advantage
By Thomas Zellerbach and Diana Rutowski
09-01-2005
Market Abuse in Italy, International Corporate Governance Review 2005 , Euromoney Books
By Alessandro De Nicola, Dorothy De Rubeis

August

08-16-2005
Orrick partners discuss securities litigation in "California Lawyer"
08-08-2005
Land Use Rights Defects and Disputes: Resolutions Clarified
By Neal Stender and Yan Zeng
08-04-2005
Recent Ninth Circuit Decision May Limit Landlords’ Ability To Enforce Letters of Credit Against Bankrupt Lessees
By William G. Murray, Jr. & Brian E. Goldberg
08-02-2005
Orrick partners discuss securities litigation in "8K" magazine
08-02-2005
Orrick Partners Discuss Corporate Governance
By Robert Varian

July

07-18-2005
Corporate law reform provides new structures, IFLR
By Patrizio Messina
07-01-2005
China Employee Retention, Share Options and Tax Planning
By Neal Stender, Sherry Yin and Aaron Bleasdale
07-01-2005
Corporate law reform provides new structures, The 2005 Guide to Structured Finance, IFLR
By Patrizio Messina, Alessia Frisina

June

06-23-2005
Les apports de la Directive Prospectus pour les émissions Stand Alone et sous programme au Luxembourg
By Véronique Roualet, Louis de Longeaux and Julien Baubigeat
06-10-2005
Change In Regulations Applicable To The Issue And Admission To Trading Of Securities In The EU
By Martin Bartlam
06-09-2005
Le secret bancaire en Allemange
By Alfred Fink
06-03-2005
Covered Bonds, published by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, 2005
By Pascal Agboyibor, Marin Bartlam, Patrizio Messina
06-01-2005
Changes in the Italian Securitisation Market: a Covered Bonds Legislation, Global Securitisation and Structured Finance 2005, Globe White Page, sponsored by Deutsche Bank
By Patrizio Messina
06-01-2005
The Benefits of a Hard-Line Approach
By Bob Cote

May

05-31-2005
Creditors Gain Leverage Against Business Debtors: Ten Changes that Favor Creditors
By Lorraine McGowen
05-02-2005
The Future of Descriptive Marks
By Thomas Zellerbach and Diana Rutowski

March

03-31-2005
How to Enforce Your Patent Portfolio: Many biotechnology companies are looking hard at their patent portfolios to raise extra revenues.
By Craig Kaufman (co-author)
03-01-2005
Franchising Procedures Clarify and Disappoint
By Neal Stender and Yan Zeng

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