Hewitt on Joint Ventures

• Provides in-depth examination of all aspects of joint ventures and a range of collaborative relationships
• Covers the practicalities involved in the drafting, negotiating and setting up of joint ventures
• Guides you through the planning stages of a joint venture or alliance
• Identifies and examines the principal issues for joint venture parties, including: capital and funding; governance and management; minority investment and protection; deadlock and breakdown; duties between joint venture parties; transfers of shares; exit, termination and change; and disputes – mediation, litigation and arbitration
• Sets out the relevant legal background
• Suggests ways of dealing with issues that may arise
• Includes a range of precedents and checklists, which also feature on a CD-rom for ease of use
• Recognises the international nature of many JV agreements
• Guides the reader through complex and specialist areas of a JV, with chapter by chapter coverage of tax planning; competition and regulatory controls, IP and technology, employment and accounting

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  • Good faith obligations
• Exercise of contractual discretion
• Default provisions and the law of penalties
• Transfers of shares in breach of pre-emption rights
• Duties of directors of joint venture companies
• Remedies for minority shareholders
• Parent company liability
  

Hewitt also covers the:

• Increasing impact of laws relating to data protection and anti-bribery and corruption
• Challenges affecting joint ventures with local parties in a number of key international jurisdictions (Brazil, China, India, Malaysia and United Arab Emirates)

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