“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
By Charles Wanguhu Well with Ash rising over European skies causing all kinds of travel chaos, it is quite suprising and hard to fathom the impact of one volcano is having on the continent of europe and over its neighbours. At the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi a stink has engulfed the main cargo centre where once freshly cut flowers
By: Ainsley Brown Cricket, lovely cricket…it would not be an overstatement to say that in India the love of sport of cricket is close to being if not equal to religious devotion. The Indian Premier League (IPL) it could be argued is the hottest tournament right now in the world of cricket. The broadcasting rights are reportedly worth $1 billion
By: Ainsley Brown While terrorism, terror financing and constitutional principles such as the rule of law and Parliamentary supremacy are not the usual subjects covered here at Commercial Law International, this seeming break from tradition is in fact not such a stretch. As our moniker indicates Commercial Awareness is Global – it is important to note and as will soon
First posted on Law is Cool on Jan 9, 2010. This is a blog post by current University of Western Ontario third year law student and Law is Cool blogger, John Magyar that I just had to share. It is a perfect illustraion of why here at Commercial Law International we say that: Commercial Awareness Is Global. The story featured in the post is
By: Ainsley Brown This is part of the Middle Passage Law Series and is cross posted on Law Is Cool. Now I know I have not posted a piece in this series in quite some time and for that I apologize – I have no excuse. It may seem that I am either picking on L´Oreal, as I have tracked
By: Ainsley Brown The world´s largest purchaser of hazelnuts and the maker of a very tasty treat, Ferrero Rocher, has been cleared in the English courts of a £20 million fraud. The suit was brought against the Italian chocolate company by the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi and others alleging that deceit, negligent misrepresentation and conspiracy for a deal involving the
This article is reproduces with the permission of the author and can be found on AccountancySA (South Africa´s leading Accountancy Journal). There is no doubt that the world we knew before the global economic meltdown will not return. The causes of the meltdown will not disappear, and lurking behind them is another set of even more fundamental issues facing humanity.
By: Ainsley Brown I have been wanting to do an Australian themed story for a long time, not least because of the global mandate of the site but also I am just a big fan of the land of Auz – I guess it´s just the rugby player in me but truth be told I am a bigger fan of
By: Ainsley Brown Switzerland´s second largest bank, Credit Suisse, in a sign of generosity – oh sorry, let me re-phrase that – in a sign of commercial awareness and good customer relations, has decided to compensate clients who suffered losses as a result of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It is the first investment bank to put forward such a
By: Ainsley Brown It is an understatement to say that the English take their tea very seriously. And it is little wonder why a small teashop in Surrey, England, even when faced with potential financial ruin, would not back down from a much larger German multinational. This is a tale about tea better yet teapots; a David and a Goliath;