Member News

28 May
Member News

GDPR: One Year Older But Are We Any The Wiser?

By Brian Johnston, Mason Hayes & Curran We have survived the first year of living with the GDPR. After all the panic and hard work, we look at what has happened in the last 12 months and what can be learnt. Security breach notifications a plenty What has happened? Over 89,000 notifications had been filed since May 2018. With a regime where over-notification suffers no penalty, but failure to notify could incur a fine, one could not blame businesses for taking this approach. This approach, however,...

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28 May
Brexit News, Member News

Vulcan Insight –  Flash report on European elections

Vulcan Consulting – Post European election analysis    From Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 May 2019 all 28 Member States of the European Union went to the polls to cast their votes in the European elections. While results are still coming in from some jurisdictions, we now know the following: this is the most politically fragmented European election in history. What you need to know Populists win: As predicated, Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant and nationalist parties nearly won nearly a third of the seats with 31 –...

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24 May
Member News

The New Closers: Why JRT Realty Rising Star Lauren Calandriello Is One To Watch

By: Miram Hall, Bisnow New York Lauren Calandriello’s path to commercial real estate was, in her own words, kind of random. Now a JRT Realty Group real estate associate, she was introduced to the firm’s CEO, Jodi Pulice, after taking a college study abroad program in Italy alongside Pulice’s son back in 2012. Pulice, always on the lookout for young talent, invited her in for a job interview two years later. “ likes to hire young women into the business and...

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24 May
Brexit News, Member News

Theresa May resigns: What does it mean for Brexit?

Latest developments Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that she will resign on 7 June. A contest will then resume between multiple candidates in the Conservative Party deciding who will replace her as leader of the Party and as the new Prime Minister. Though it remains to be decided and worked out, the contest is likely to be completed by the end of July at which point a new PM will take office. Theresa May will remain PM until...

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24 May
Brexit News, Member News

The Weekly Vulcan View | Analysis of Latest EU Developments May 20 – 24

Key Events This Week May announces resignation setting off leadership contest Theresa May ended months of speculation about her leadership this morning as she gave an emotional statement confirming she would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party on June 7th. She will remain as Prime Minister until a new successor is chosen by Conservative party members with the expectation that over a dozen candidates may enter the race. The Prime Minister’s fate was sealed this week after a bruising rejection from...

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23 May
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

President Trump Delays Implementation of Section 232 Tariffs on Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts

President Donald Trump today announced that his administration would delay for six months any action on the determination of the Department of Commerce (Commerce) in the Section 232 national security investigation into imports of automobiles and automobile parts. This investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 was self-initiated by Commerce in June 2018 (see Trump and Trade Update of June 1, 2018) and, while a final report and determination was presented to the president on February...

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23 May
Member News

Global Climate City Challenge supports climate action projects around the world

At the International Conference on Climate Action – ICCA 2019 – in Heidelberg, Germany, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and the European Investment Bank have announced the 20 shortlisted cities of the Global Climate City Challenge. Launched at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in September 2018, the Global Climate Cities Challenge aims to strengthen technical assistance and financing for climate action projects especially in cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America as well...

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22 May
Member News

Supreme Court Rules that Trademark License Rights Survive Rejection in Bankruptcy, Resolving Circuit Split

On May 20, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a circuit split on the treatment of trademark licenses in bankruptcy. In an 8-1 decision, the Court held that a licensor's rejection of a trademark license in bankruptcy does not rescind the rights conveyed to the licensee. Rather, the licensee may continue to use the trademark if it wishes to do so, so long as it continues to comply with its own obligations under the license (such as payment of...

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21 May
Member News

Trump’s Latest Tariffs Threaten the American Toy Economy – Help Us Push Back!

By Steve Pasierb | President & CEO | The Toy Association As a community that brings joy and developmental benefits to kids through toys and play, your Association and fellow toymakers are banding together to let President Trump know that his administration’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on all finished toys from our partner factories in China would destroy many successful American businesses – not to mention ruin Christmas, birthdays, and other special occasions for kids. With the fourth list of proposed...

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20 May
Member News

Huawei trouble lifting safe haven status in USD

Overview: The U.S. Dollar has managed to maintain its gains of an overall average of 0.5% thus far this May, according to the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index.Fluctuations in the FX market have not been totally unfavorable to the greenback, which has found its way back as a result of growing uncertainty over trade with developments that affected main communications company Huawei. The trade war targeting the company adds on to fear about the global supply chain being affected along with...

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