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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31 Jan
Chapter News, News

VIDEO: Fed Signals End of Interest Rate Increases

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chairman /Getty Images By Binyamin Appelbaum, New York Times Jan. 30, 2019 WASHINGTON — In suspending its previous plans to continue raising rates this year, the Federal Reserve signaled that its march toward higher interest rates may be ending sooner than expected. The Fed’s chairman, Jerome H. Powell, said economic growth remained “solid” and the central bank expected growth to continue. But in a sharp reversal of the Fed’s stance just six week ago, Mr. Powell said the...

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30 Jan
Brexit News, Chapter News, News

Speeches by President Juncker and Chief Negotiator Barnier at the Plenary session of the European Parliament on the occasion of the debate on the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU

Brussels, 30 January 2019 Speech by President Jean-Claude Juncker Mr. President, Honourable Members, In less than 60 days, the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union. This is a bad decision, as I find. Even as the Commission has defended the interests of the European Union, this spirit of respect and friendship has accompanied us at every step in these negotiations. The Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration agreed by all 27 Leaders and the United Kingdom government is the result of that....

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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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30 Jan
Chapter News, News, Trade & TTIP Related

EU-U.S. trade talks: European Commission publishes progress report

Brussels, 30 January 2019 The European Commission has today published a report on the implementation of the 25 July 2018 Joint Statement agreed by Presidents Juncker and Trump. In line with the Commission's commitment to transparency, the report provides a detailed overview on the state of play of the talks so far. The document was sent today to the European Parliament and Member States. The Joint Statement launched a new phase in EU-U.S. trade relations, preventing an escalation in trade tensions and setting out...

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29 Jan
Brexit News, Chapter News, News

UK parliament rejects move to delay Brexit

By Charlie Cooper, Politico 1/29/2019 LONDON — MPs opted not to back an attempt by backbenchers to remove the threat of a no-deal Brexit on March 29 in a key vote in the U.K.'s House of Commons. A proposal put down by Labour MP Yvette Cooper that aims to force the government to delay Brexit day was backed by 298 MPs with 321 voting against — a deficit of 23. The amendment, which was opposed by the government, would have carved out...

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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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