Learn the significance of the infrastructure bill, which regions will benefit the most and how it will impact the U.S. economy and commercial real estate (CRE) property markets. On November 15, President Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into law. Carved out of the more aggressive Build Back Better vision, it marks one of the most significant investments in physical infrastructure in the U.S. in at least half a century. In this report, we provide our...

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2021 was riddled with sneak previews of a “review of competition policy tools with unprecedented scope and ambition”. These sneak previews, alongside 2021’s other competition law developments, seem to point in the direction of a more ‘social’ side to competition law in 2022, as well as looming Big Tech and Big Pharma battles, intensified (international) cooperation, more clarity on merger-related obligations for companies, and shiny new vertical and horizontal block exemption regulations. 2022 will reveal how and when the...

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On 13 December 2021, the Council of the EU adopted restrictive measures against the Wagner group, a Russia-based unincorporated private military entity, as well as eight individuals and three connected entities charged with serious human rights violations and the performance of destabilising activities in three countries. What is new? These measures were implemented by amending four sanctions regimes (namely, by adding names to the lists of sanctioned persons though the adoption of implementing regulations): the sanctions regime already in force relating...

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The rules of global taxation are on the brink of change for the first time in nearly 100 years. The leaders of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) G20 met in Rome on October 30th 2021 to finalise the agreement for a global minimum tax.  Governments must now consider a range of alternative methods to stimulate business entity research and development (BERD), and successful innovation in the new global tax landscape. In this article, I have considered...

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In this week’s Roar, we bring you counter-intuitive news on cargo volumes at the Ningbo-Zhoushan port, sorting out the fees at LA-LB, 2022 expectations from BREXIT, peaking demand on global supply chains, and upward pressures on air rates. But first, a constant for the industry has been dealing with labor shortages. Here is a short video from WSJ.com that you might find insightful. Click on the chart below to view it. The increasing COVID-19 cases in the Belin district of Ningbo...

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It is hard to think of an industry that has been affected more since the outbreak of COVID-19 than the aviation industry. An industry with a business model that relies on moving large amounts of people across the globe, generally within close contact of each other, has been decimated in the past two years. While the ghostly scenes of scores of grounded planes parked on the tarmac and abandoned international airport terminals are not as prevalent as they were in...

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