EACC Legal Committee

EACC Legal Committee

Mission & Goals

The mission of the European American Chamber of Commerce’s legal committee is to engage the international and U.S. legal community in New York and generate awareness about the programs and benefits the EACCNY and the organizations it represents have to offer to that particular community.

The international make-up of the EACC’s legal committee and the global nature of the activities the firms are engaged in gives us direct access to the key players in nearly every European market and throughout the United States, which provides us with a unique position among our peers.

The committee will offer the EACC’s law-firm members as well as the larger EACC audience timely & relevant information and resources on matters affecting the legal community and their target audiences in Europe and the U.S.

Its goals are to:

  • Contribute to and participate in targeted business activities and networking to engage the legal community, in alignment with EACC’s strategic priorities
  • Help raise the profile and visibility of the EACC and its thought-leadership in legal and regulatory matters locally, nationally and internationally within the legal community and its larger constituency
  • Identify the key legal issues affecting business relations between the U.S. and the EU and develop informative programs to educate EACC’s members and audience
  • Work with senior staff to engage current members and attract new ones
  • Inform U.S. and European executives about relevant regulatory issues in the United States and how they affect trans-Atlantic business transactions

Committee Responsibilities

  • Meet at least quarterly as a committee to identify, plan, and implement programs and activities aligned with the EACC’s mission and with the support of the EACC staff
  • Participate in annual committee leaders’meetings and EACCNY’s strategic meeting
  • Identify prospective members within the target audience of the committee and encourage them to get involved and become a part of the EACC
  • Engage in a regular discourse with the EACC Staff and program committee to help identify relevant topics, regulatory and legislative changes and business matters that could affect cross-border transactions, and help identify subject matter experts to present at the related seminars
  • Initiate a dialogue with relevant subject matter experts who can share their knowledge and present at EACC seminars

UPCOMING EACC EVENTS

INVITATION ONLY | Private Breakfast with Benjamin Angel – Update on the Global Minimum Tax

EACCNY is organizing a private discussion with Benjamin Angel, the Director for ‘Direct Taxation, Tax Coordination, Economic Analysis and Evaluation’ in DG TAXUD. This Directorate is in charge of a number of sensitive policy issues related to direct taxation, such as OECD/G20 discussions, non-cooperative jurisdictions and tax havens, tax avoidance and tax evasion, business taxation (including taxation of the digital sector) and tax cooperation between Member States (including the code of conduct). The focus topic of this meeting will be the Global Minimum Tax.

Webinar | Doing business in the United States: what you need to know about the US Start-up Ecosystem

The webinar series ‘Embracing global markets’ is a specialty workshop series developed by the European American Chamber of Commerce for the European Enterprise Network (EEN). The webinars have been developed exclusively for the 'Enterprise Europe Network' by the EEN USA consortium, comprised of EACC New York, EACC Texas and EACC Carolinas and feature subject matter experts on a variety of topis relevant to companies expanding into the US market.

    Legal Committee Members

    Sascha Leske [Chair]
    Tax Advisor, Partner/Rechtsanwalt
    NOERR LLP

    Deirdre Geraghty
    Partner
    A&L GOODBODY LLP

    Javier Gómez
    Partner
    PÉREZ LLORCA

    James Rosener
    Managing Partner
    TROUTMAN PEPPER LLP & President of EACCNY

    Katherine MacIlwaine
    Shareholder
    OGLETREE DEAKINS

    Brian Jenkins
    Director
    ALIXPARTNERS

    Joseph B. Cartafalsa [Proxy]
    Shareholder
    OGLETREE DEAKINS