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04
Sep
Financial services and insurance companies of all sizes require innovative immigration strategies and support to remain competitive in the global marketplace. From moving business leaders around the world to on-boarding talent with cutting-edge data analytics capabilities, understanding key visa processes and compliance is essential.
This primer provides an overview of several employment and immigration compliance topics affecting the financial services and insurance industries operating in the U.S.
Hiring in the U.S.
Companies of all sizes in the financial services and insurance industries...
04
Sep
It is my pleasure to inform you that as of September Leonie Hamersma will be the firm's new representative in Houston. We are proud to have Leonie represent Houthoff in Houston. She started her career as a corporate lawyer more than 10 years ago, working in the international M&A field and various others, such as energy, healthcare and finance. As a representative, Leonie will be responsible for further developing close ties with clients and firms to create new alliances and...
04
Sep
Excerpted from Dr. Joanna Massey’s upcoming book “You Raised Them, Now You Have to Live with Them in the Workplace: How Millennials and Gen Z Are Changing the Way We Work.”
Benjamin Franklin famously said that there are only two things that are certain in life—death and taxes.
Well, I would argue that the one thing death and taxes have in common is that they both create a change in your life. So, in my personal philosophy, the one guarantee...
04
Sep
Today, Reavis Page Jump LLP takes center stage in the just-published 2019 "New York's Women Leaders in the Law" supplement to the New York Law Journal and New York Magazine.
Each year, the supplement features the city's top women-led firms that are doing outstanding work and driving women's leadership in the legal field. Featured on this year's cover, RPJ gets premiere billing.
"Women Leaders in the Law" further profiles the firm in an article entitled, "Client Focused, Community Enriched, Women Owned Firm Sets the Legal Bar," which...
04
Sep
The UK government has today started its ‘Get ready for Brexit‘ publicity campaign for businesses and individuals, relaunching the Brexit guidance which has accumulated over the past two years.
Acting on the premise that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October, the principal feature of gov.uk/brexit is a ‘checker to find out what you or your business will need to do to get ready for Brexit’. A series of questions are asked, and then links to relevant government...
03
Sep
Three forces are shaping the investment climate. The US-China trade conflict escalates at the start of September as both will raise tariffs on each other's goods and are threatening another round in mid-December (US 25% tariffs on $250 of Chinese imports will increase to 30% on October 1).
Some third parties may benefit from the re-casting of supply chains, but the first impact is understood to weaken growth impulses. That is aggravating the slowdown already evident in several large economies...
30
Aug
By Till Steinvorth and Boris Marschall
On November 1, 2019 a new college of European commissioners is due to take office. Practitioners are eager to know who will be in charge of competition.
Designation of the EU commissioners
The new team will have one commissioner per Member State except the UK, which is preparing to exit the EU by October 31. All governments have designated their candidate except Italy, which first needs to complete the formation of a new national government coalition.
Once...
29
Aug
By Amy Ray | Orrick
Earlier this year, we covered the widespread interest in tech giants among international competition authorities, as well as the potential for divergence in intensity and type of enforcement across jurisdictions. We observed that while the U.S. enforcement agencies did not appear to support a regulatory approach to platforms and the digital economy, others like the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the UK Parliament’s Digital Culture, Media and Sport Committee may have a stronger appetite for...
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