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01 Feb
Member News

#FINUS100 Campaign – 100 Years of Finland – U.S. Diplomatic Relations

A rousing new social media campaign highlighting the centennial of Finland - U.S. diplomatic relations is underway! Every weekday the Embassy of Finland in DC and the U.S. Embassy Finland post photos online that commemorate the 100 year journey of upholding US and Finnish relations. The Finland - U.S. centennial social media campaign explores shared moments in our nations’ histories that include political encounters as well as important cultural exchanges. Who could forget the Reagans visiting Helsinki in 1988, or how Paavo Nurmi (a.k.a....

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31 Jan
Member News

DSM announces new Chief Innovation Officer

Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, today announced that Rob van Leen, Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) and member of the Executive Committee, has decided to step down from his position and focus on non-executive roles outside of DSM in the second half of 2019. Patricia Malarkey, in her most recent executive role Head of Research & Development and member of the Executive Committee at Syngenta, will join DSM as of 15 March to...

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31 Jan
Member News

Thompson Hine’s “Trade Secret Quarterly”; Winter 2019

Reliance on Technology May Compromise Your Ability to Protect Your Trade Secrets The use of smartphones, tablets, laptops and other personal devices in the workplace is commonplace. But allowing your employees to access trade secret information on them without implementing appropriate restrictions or protections could be fatal to a later enforcement action. A recent decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals underscores a company’s obligation to take sufficient steps to protect its electronic data if the company later wants to...

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31 Jan
Member News

USCIS Resumes Premium Processing for a Limited Number of H-1B Petitions

By Melissa Manna, Ogletree Deakins U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the reinstatement of the premium processing program for a limited number of H-1B petitions. Premium processing will resume on January 28, 2019, for fiscal year (FY) 2019 H-1B cap cases (those subject to the annual quota). FY 2019 H-1B cap cases were those that were filed in April 2018 and were subject to the annual H-1B lottery. Because most of those cases have already been adjudicated, the resumption of premium processing is...

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30 Jan
Brexit News, Member News

WEBCAST| Brexit update, 30 Jan: How should business interpret yesterday’s vote in UK Parliament?

By Mats Persson, EU UK& Brexit Lead & Specialist Advisor to the UK Prime Minister 2015-2016 Webcast today We will host an update webcast discussing yesterday’s developments including whether the EU will allow for any renegotiating of the Withdrawal Agreement, with Jan Grauls, a former senior Belgian Diplomat and Mats Persson, former Special Advisor to the UK Prime Minister. Register now. Wednesday 30 January, 14:00-14:30 then available on-demand using same link.   Latest developments: The UK Parliament last night voted on a series of amendments...

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30 Jan
Member News

Don’t Let These 10 Legal Myths Stop Your Doing Business In The U.S.: Myth #8 – The possibility of many employee lawsuits scares us

By Marc S. Friedman | Director of Professional Relations| Global Commerce Education In the most recent article in this series, I explained how many non-US companies, including Baltic businesses, refrain from doing business in the US because of  Myths #6 and 7 - The US is very litigious and that is too threatening to a small company like ours. As a result, the risk of liability and lawsuits relating to our products and/or services is too great. In this installment, I...

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29 Jan
Member News

The Italian Budget Law 2019

On December 29, 2018, the Italian Parliament enacted the Budget Law 2019 (Law n. 145 of 2018) (the “Law”). This article illustrates the most significant tax measures of the Law that may be of interest to U.S. multinationals or investors with operations in Italy. 1. Corporate income tax at 15% Starting from the 2019 fiscal year (the “FY 2019”), companies that meet certain requisites will benefit from a reduction of the standard 24% corporate tax income (the so-called “IRES”) by nine...

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29 Jan
Member News, News

EU bank steps up efforts to fight climate change and foster innovation

More than EUR 64 billion from EIB Group supported investment of EUR 230 billion in Europe and worldwide in 2018. Record business volume of more than EUR 10 billion at EIF to support start-ups and SMEs. EIB President Hoyer: “The EU bank shows the value created by working together as a Union.” In the year of its 60th anniversary, the EU bank supported EUR 230 billion of investment, meeting its Juncker Plan targets ahead of schedule and successfully navigating a politically difficult...

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28 Jan
Member News

The Government Shutdown and Its Effects on the FDA

By Ethan Jorgensen-Earp| Sara M Klock |Michael J Werner|    On January 25, President Trump announced that the White House and congressional leaders in the House and Senate have reached an agreement to fund the government on a short-term continuing resolution (CR) through Feb. 15 to end the 35-day government shutdown.   The CR would fund all currently unfunded departments, including the operations of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), at slightly less than FY 2018 levels, and would provide a vehicle to move...

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28 Jan
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Tradewind Funds Leading Tubing Manufacturer Based in Spain

Tradewind has announced that it has provided a $500,000 non-recourse export factoring facility to a leading designer, manufacturer, and exporter of technical tubes and hoses based in Spain. The company, whose products are used in the industrial, agricultural, construction, and gardening sectors, sells domestically and exports to countries throughout Europe. It will apply proceeds from the facility to fund the working capital needs of its tubing business so it can maximize growth abroad. Although the company was equipped with the...

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