BLG report: Top 10 legal risks for business in 2017

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) has released its annual thought leadership report, forecasting the top 10 legal risks for business in 2017. The firm expanded the report this year to provide deeper insight into the key trends and regulatory changes that will have legal implications in the year ahead.

BLG’s Top 10 Legal Risks for Business in 2017 report features commentary from the firm’s lawyers on the major issues facing business in the year ahead. Covering common themes from technology transformations to market concerns and public debates, the issues explored this year include innovation, disruption and the regulation of fintech, cybersecurity and data privacy, shareholder activism, conduct risk as an increasing threat, securities regulators, medical cannabis, natural resources under pressure and transformation, government’s evolving management of infrastructure, global trading system, and employment agreements.

To download the full report, visit www.blg.com/top10.