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...

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...

Meet GL EVENTS at IMEX America, Stand B3827 - September 10-12, 2019 Dear #EVENTPROFS, We hope you will join us in less than 2 weeks at  #IMEXAMERICA to meet our #GLEVENTS venues team and discover over 10 New Venues & Destinations within our network, such as Johannesburg Expo Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa Salvador brand-new Convention Center, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil New congress center in Budapest, Hungary MEETT- New Exhibition & Convention Centre, Toulouse, France... Let’s Celebrate 50 Venues in 41 years!!! Share with...

By Simon Burgess, Head of Alternative Investments | OCORIAN Infrastructure investing is rapidly maturing. As institutional investors seek risk adjusted returns from their physical and real assets, Head of Alternative Investments, Simon Burgess highlights how infrastructure gives access to longer term income with enhanced capital security, with similarities to that experienced in real estate investing. Effective infrastructure is a vital foundation to economic development that supports sustainable, long-term growth. As time and technology have progressed, the umbrella of infrastructure has broadened to encompass...

By Joanna Massey, President & CEO, JDMA Inc. Millennials hate their label. Welcome to the club, because so did Gen X! Millennials were first called Gen Y back when they were just kids born in the early 1980s. Then 2000 happened—we partied like it was 1999, the 20th Century became the 21st Century, and overnight the young adults entering the workforce stopped being Gen Y and became known as millennials. As marketers tried to identify this generation, so they could better...

By Scott Ferguson, CEO | World Trade Centers Association  The way organizations approach global commerce is undergoing a radical change. Geopolitical instability is slowing growth in a volatile global economy as organizations are forced to adapt their tactics, making complex decisions that increase operational costs and, if mishandled, make them less competitive in an unforgiving business landscape. So, what can organizations do to navigate this ‘new normal’? As an association whose members deal with small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at the...

Tradewind has provided a $15 million credit facility to a 75-year-old manufacturer headquartered in Europe with a subsidiary in the USA. The company sells globally and is using the facility to support 120-day open account payment terms. The deal took shape after the client was pressed to extend longer payment terms to a major buyer of theirs. The buyer previously had a vendor finance program in place that arranged for early funding to the client and other suppliers. When the...