25 Feb
COVID-19 News, Member News

Cozen O’Connor | I-9 Documentation Review Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

As we approach April 1, 2021, employers should be aware of the ever-changing policies and procedures surrounding their requirements to complete the Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 (and E-Verify if they have registered to use it or are required to use it by law) for all new hires. Traditionally, the document inspection requirements of Form I-9 were completed in person when the new hire was going through the onboarding process of a new position, requiring the employee to complete...

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25 Feb
Chapter News

EU Commission proposes new Regulation to ensure EU travellers continue to benefit from free roaming

To ensure that citizens can continue to enjoy roaming without additional charges when travelling in the EU, the Commission proposed today a new Roaming Regulation. At a time when non-essential travel is discouraged, this is an important action in preparing a brighter future. The new regulation will prolong the current rules that are due to expire in 2022, for another 10 years. It will also ensure better roaming services for travellers. For example, consumers will be entitled to have the...

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25 Feb
Chapter News

Building a Climate-Resilient Future – A new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change

The European Commission adopted today a new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, setting out the pathway to prepare for the unavoidable impacts of climate change. While the EU does everything within its power to mitigate climate change, domestically and internationally, we must also get ready to face its unavoidable consequences. From deadly heatwaves and devastating droughts, to decimated forests and coastlines eroded by rising sea levels, climate change is already taking its toll in Europe and worldwide....

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25 Feb
Chapter News

ECB | Interview: Fiscal and monetary support are crucial

Interview with Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Ingūna Ukenābele on 22 February 2021 | How would you describe the current economic situation in the euro area? In the course of the pandemic, we have experienced the deepest economic downturn since World War II. After the strong decline in economic activity following the first wave of infections in the spring of 2020, we saw a strong rebound, supported by the decisive fiscal and monetary policy...

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25 Feb
Chapter News

OECD calls on countries to crack down on the professionals enabling tax and white collar crimes

Countries should increase efforts to better deter, detect and disrupt the activities of professionals who enable tax evasion and other financial crimes, according to a new OECD report. Ending the Shell Game: Cracking down on the Professionals who enable Tax and White Collar Crimes explores the different strategies and actions that countries can take against those professional service providers who play a crucial part in the planning and pursuit of criminal activity, referred to in the report as “professional enablers.”...

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24 Feb
Member News

UBP IAS | Change of CEO

The UBP IAS Board of Directors appointed Ms. Eva Kathrin Genovese-Delwing as the CEO of UBP IAS, replacing Mr. Deepak Soni who left to pursue other opportunities. Kathrin Genovese joined the UBP Group in February 2020 and took up her new position with UBP IAS on 18 January 2021. She has three decades of experience in the financial industry, including senior roles at a large Swiss bank and a family office, having held various leadership positions such as CFO and...

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24 Feb
Member News

A&L Goodbody | Review of Irish merger control in 2020

A&L Goodbody's EU, Competition & Procurement team has published its report on merger control by Ireland's Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) in 2020. It gives an insight into who bought whom, how long it took to get approval, when issues arose, which sectors were in play and so on. Despite the events of 2020, the number of deals notified to the CCPC was not down materially – 13% from 47 to 41. ICT, healthcare, financial services and retail were the sectors most in...

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24 Feb
Chapter News

IMF | The Great Divergence: A Fork in the Road for the Global Economy

As G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meet virtually this week, the world continues to climb back from the worst recession in peacetime since the Great Depression. The IMF recently projected global GDP growth at 5.5 per cent this year and 4.2 per cent in 2022. But it is going to be a long and uncertain ascent. Most of the world is facing a slow rollout of vaccines even as new virus mutations are spreading—and the prospects for recovery...

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24 Feb
Member News

Ogletree | Where to Open Shop: New Report Ranks the Best Places to Do Business in the U.S.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the global economy, and employers are increasingly considering which are the most and least employer-friendly places  new offices, distribution centers, and operational locations, both during the pandemic and after emerging from it. The Arizona State University Center for the Study of Economic Liberty recently released Doing Business North America 2020 (DBNA), a report analyzing and comparing data indicative of the regulatory context for business activity in a number of metropolitan areas. The report ranked 130 cities across...

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23 Feb
Member News

Galileo Global Advisors partners to launch the Capital Market Development initiative with former NYSE and LSE senior executives

Capital markets (dys)functioning and regulation  are again at the center of public attention and even congressional investigations. The need to recenter them on their core mission  and purpose has hardly been grater, not only for the marketplace, but for market participants. Even the court of public opinion is starting to believe that their valuation function is questionable. From my experience as a former Group EVP of the New York Stock Exchange, I decided to join forces with former exchange...

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