06 Sep
Brexit News, Member News, News

Mason Hayes Curran In the News: Brexit Could Lead to a Legal Quagmire, Warns Top Lawyer

Below is an article featured in the Sunday Independent by Fearghal O'Connor on 25 August 2019 A no-deal Brexit will only be the start of the pain from Brexit, as a major legal quagmire lies ahead for the EU and the UK, the head of one of Ireland's law firms has said. Declan Black, the managing partner of Mason Hayes Curran, said that although legal firms and other professional services firms have experienced a bounce due to Brexit-related relocations to Ireland, he...

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05 Sep
Chapter News, News

A Role for Financial and Monetary Policies in Climate Change Mitigation

  By William Oman July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded on earth, with countries across the world experiencing record-breaking temperatures. A prolonged drought is affecting millions of people in East Africa, and in August 2019 Greenland lost 12.5 billion tons of ice in one day. A review of the literature by IMF staff aims to spur discussion of what policies to mitigate climate change could or should include. The review suggests that, while fiscal tools are first in line, they...

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04 Sep
Member News, News

Employment-Related Compliance Considerations for the Financial Services and Insurance Industries

Financial services and insurance companies of all sizes require innovative immigration strategies and support to remain competitive in the global marketplace. From moving business leaders around the world to on-boarding talent with cutting-edge data analytics capabilities, understanding key visa processes and compliance is essential. This primer provides an overview of several employment and immigration compliance topics affecting the financial services and insurance industries operating in the U.S. Hiring in the U.S. Companies of all sizes in the financial services and insurance industries...

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04 Sep
Member News, News

Houthoff Appoints New Representative in Houston

It is my pleasure to inform you that as of September Leonie Hamersma will be the firm's new representative in Houston. We are proud to have Leonie represent Houthoff in Houston. She started her career as a corporate lawyer more than 10 years ago, working in the international M&A field and various others, such as energy, healthcare and finance. As a representative, Leonie will be responsible for further developing close ties with clients and firms to create new alliances and...

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04 Sep
Member News, News

The Only Guarantee in Life Is Change

Excerpted from Dr. Joanna Massey’s upcoming book “You Raised Them, Now You Have to Live with Them in the Workplace: How Millennials and Gen Z Are Changing the Way We Work.” Benjamin Franklin famously said that there are only two things that are certain in life—death and taxes. Well, I would argue that the one thing death and taxes have in common is that they both create a change in your life. So, in my personal philosophy, the one guarantee...

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04 Sep
Member News, New York Related News, News

“New York’s Women Leaders in the Law” Features Reavis Page Jump as a Firm That “Sets the Legal Bar”

Today, Reavis Page Jump LLP takes center stage in the just-published 2019 "New York's Women Leaders in the Law" supplement to the New York Law Journal and New York Magazine.  Each year, the supplement features the city's top women-led firms that are doing outstanding work and driving women's leadership in the legal field. Featured on this year's cover, RPJ gets premiere billing. "Women Leaders in the Law" further profiles the firm in an article entitled, "Client Focused, Community Enriched, Women Owned Firm Sets the Legal Bar," which...

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04 Sep
Brexit News, Member News

Brexit Business Brief | Government guidance relaunched

The UK government has today started its ‘Get ready for Brexit‘ publicity campaign for businesses and individuals, relaunching the Brexit guidance which has accumulated over the past two years. Acting on the premise that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, the principal feature of gov.uk/brexit is a ‘checker to find out what you or your business will need to do to get ready for Brexit’. A series of questions are asked, and then links to relevant government...

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03 Sep
Chapter News, News

Illuminating Dark Corners of the Global Economy

By Gita Bhatt, Editor-In-Chief of Finance & Development Magazine and the Acting Chief of Policy Communications at the IMF This issue of Finance & Development reminds me of a Sufi parable. A woman sees a mystic searching for something outside his door. “What have you lost?” she asks. “My key,” he responds. So they both kneel down to look for it. “Where exactly did you drop it?” she asks after a few minutes. “In my house,” he replies. “Then why...

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03 Sep
Brexit News, Member News

September 2019 FX Outlook

Three forces are shaping the investment climate.  The US-China trade conflict escalates at the start of September as both will raise tariffs on each other's goods and are threatening another round in mid-December (US 25% tariffs on $250 of Chinese imports will increase to 30% on October 1).  Some third parties may benefit from the re-casting of supply chains, but the first impact is understood to weaken growth impulses.  That is aggravating the slowdown already evident in several large economies...

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30 Aug
Member News

Who Will Be the Next EU Competition Commissioner?

By Till Steinvorth and Boris Marschall On November 1, 2019 a new college of European commissioners is due to take office. Practitioners are eager to know who will be in charge of competition. Designation of the EU commissioners The new team will have one commissioner per Member State except the UK, which is preparing to exit the EU by October 31. All governments have designated their candidate except Italy, which first needs to complete the formation of a new national government coalition. Once...

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