The Digital Planning Podcast is designed to educate individuals about all things digital in connection with estate planning, business planning and estate administration.   Your hosts, attorneys Jennifer Zegel of Kleinbard LLC, Ross Bruchof EstateGenie, and Justin Brown of Pepper Hamilton, will guide you through the digital world and aim to keep you informed of developments and updates in this ever-changing space. In our introduction episode, Jen, Ross and Justin discuss the creation and purpose of the Digital Planning Podcast.   And in our first episode, Jen sets the scene...

Doing business in the world’s largest single market area simply makes sense. But foreign companies need to be prepared for Europe’s varied HR rules and regulations. There’s a lot to gain from establishing operations in Europe, particularly the European Union, with its reduced trade barriers, lower business costs and increased efficiency as you sell your goods and services to a 500 million-consumer market. But the EU’s lack of border bureaucracy and harmonisation of company law doesn’t extend to all aspects...

Cost segregation has long benefited taxpayers with increased cash flow and long-term net present value benefits by reclassifying building or improvement costs to property with shorter tax lives, such as personal property or land improvement property. We discussed cost segregation benefits in light of tax reform in a prior issue of For the Record (see Cost Segregation Benefits from the Recent Tax Reform Act). In this tax reform update, we discuss how cost segregation continues to add value in light of recent changes...

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and MicroBank have signed a social entrepreneurship guarantee agreement in Spain supported by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the core of the Investment Plan for Europe. This financing agreement was also made under the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI). This guarantee agreement allows MicroBank to launch a new product, targeting 500 start-up and developing social enterprises across Spain over the next 2 and a half years. Under this EU backed program, Spanish...

By Daniel R. Sieck & Gregory C. Dorris | Pepper Hamilton| March, 3rd, 2019 U.S. technology companies raising funds from foreign investors should carefully consider whether the proposed financing transaction can be structured to avoid falling within the purview of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which now has jurisdiction to review certain financing transactions pursuant to interim rules under the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA). In particular, FIRRMA expanded the jurisdiction of CFIUS through...

By Marc S. Friedman | Director of Professional Relations| Global Commerce Education In the last installment in this series, I explained how many non-US companies, including Baltic businesses, may wrongfully refrain from doing business in the US because of  Myth #9 - There are no effective ways to control the risks to our business if we come to the US.  Today I address the last Legal Myth in this series - Myth #10 It is almost impossible to locate trusted advisers including...

By  Timothy S Murray |Christopher Colman What Is It? A two-year pilot scheme running in certain divisions of the English High Court, designed to reduce the volume of disclosure documents (discovery) produced in English litigation. What Will It Mean? In some cases - most likely smaller ones – the new scheme will result in the disclosure of more documents at an earlier stage in the proceedings. Previously, it was common practice for a limited amount of documentation (such as the relevant contract in...