17 Aug
Chapter News

Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data

For many years, open access to data has been viewed as an important means of improving government transparency and accountability and deepening citizen engagement, and today hundreds of local and national governments worldwide are using open data portals to publish data and documents that they produce over the course of their operations. But open data has proven to be more than just tool for advancing open government and citizen engagement, it is proving itself to be an important tool for...

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17 Aug
Member News

CBP Expected to Publish New Regulations on ADD/CVD Evasion

Pursuant to the newly-enacted Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act (the “Act”), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) is expected to publish regulations later this month detailing new procedures for CBP investigations into allegations of antidumping and countervailing duty evasion. The anticipated regulations have the potential to significantly alter the CBP enforcement landscape.  The regulations will not only be enforced by a newly-created Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Division but also will allow for private entities to force CBP’s hand in...

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16 Aug
Member News

Brexit and EU law – How does the European Union (EU) enter into trading agreements with third countries? It’s mainly about competence

Brexit is now bringing into sharper focus the way in which nations and economic blocs seek to negotiate international trade agreements. Ireland's role in those negotiations is defined by reference to and subject to its obligations of membership of the EU. The future of the UK's post-Brexit trading relationship in particular with the EU (but also with many other countries) remains uncertain. Depending on what that future arrangement finally looks like, the UK's post-Brexit trading relationship with the EU might...

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16 Aug
Chapter News

Euro area international trade in goods surplus €29.2 bn – €7.7 bn surplus for EU28

The first estimate for euro area (EA19) exports of goods to the rest of the world in June 2016 was €178.8 billion, a decrease of 2% compared with June 2015 (€182.8 bn). Imports from the rest of the world stood at €149.5 bn, a fall of 5% compared with June 2015 (€157.4 bn). As a result, the euro area recorded a €29.2 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in June 2016, compared with...

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16 Aug
Member News

Diversity on Corporate Boards

The issue of diversity has expanded from the workplace to the corporate boardroom, with initiatives spearheaded by investors and other stakeholders to address the lack of diversity on corporate boards. These initiatives are likely to lead to pressure on companies to enhance their disclosures about their board members and take steps to diversify their boards. This article describes some of these board diversity initiatives and the steps employers can take now to address possible concerns. Investors In March 2015, a group...

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15 Aug
Member News

How Brexit could downgrade London’s PE role

London is a hub for many pan-European funds, but Brexit could disperse that power. "Brexit means Brexit" said Theresa May, now U.K. prime minister, in the early days after the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union. There would, she said, be no attempt to remain inside the Union. Unfortunately, for anyone trying to plan ahead for a post-Brexit world, any attempt to interpret the phrase more deeply is doomed to fail. Nobody knows what Brexit will really mean. Britain has...

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15 Aug
New York Related News

NYCEDC Launches Emerging Developer Loan Fund

Fund includes $10m of capital committed by NYCEDC for pre-development and land acquisition loans Fund provides low-interest loans to NYC-based real estate projects including mixed-income and mixed-use residential, industrial and commercial projects with development costs under $30M The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), in partnership with Basis Management Group, LLC, today announced the launch of the Emerging Developer Loan Fund (EDLF), which includes $10 million of capital committed by NYCEDC. Many emerging developers, particularly minority and women-owned firms, often face...

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15 Aug
Member News

Factoring: the underappreciated but fast source of working capital.

It takes money to make money, as any business owner knows. But many businesses also know what it’s like to be turned down by a bank for a loan or line of credit, not get as much as they need, or simply not get the cash quickly enough. It’s not just start-ups that run into financing difficulties. Even an established company that is growing rapidly will frequently have financial challenges. To make matters worse, owners of small or early...

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15 Aug
Chapter News

The EACC Paris is proud to announce its new Deputy Executive Director

The EACC Paris is proud to announce the arrival of Jean-Yves as Deputy Executive Director of the EACC Paris. Until recently Jean-Yves was the Head of the Press and Public Affairs department and the Spokesperson of the British Embassy in France for six and a half years. Before that, he had been Deputy Spokesperson of the French Permanent Representation of France to the United Nations in New York, and then a communications officer for the French Presidency of the...

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15 Aug
Member News

RPL Partner Larry Brocchini Provides Overview of Landmark Federal Trade Secrets Act

Recently, Congress enacted, and President Obama signed, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”), the first comprehensive federal trade secrets legislation.  This landmark legislation provides a federal civil remedy for the misappropriation of trade secrets, thereby allowing trade secret owners to protect their innovations and seek redress in federal court—as owners of copyrights, patents and trademarks have already been able to—when violations of their rights occur. Unlike other types of intellectual property, trade secrets have primarily been defined and...

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