By CHERRY HILL, N.J. TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®, has been recognized as a Green Lease Leader by the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Better Buildings Alliance. "This award recognizes our ongoing strategy to embed environmental provisions into our leasing process to further TD's operational footprint performance. This includes engaging with our landlord network and brokers, and continuously demonstrating leadership practices within the commercial real estate community since first launching our Environmental Management Plan in...

By Cedric C. Chao The world of international litigation and arbitration tends to move slowly. However, I expect the pace of change to accelerate in the coming decade as these six trends take hold. 1. Asia rising Asia-based companies and Asia-related transactions will become increasing sources of cross-border disputes. Asia's economies as a share of global GDP have been growing at an accelerating pace over the past decade. Asia's representation in the Fortune Global 30 grew from five companies to nine companies between...

Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced the introduction of the new Philips GreenPower LED toplighting high output with a light efficacy up to 3.0 µmol/J and an output of 800 µmol/s. The new module will help greenhouse growers improve the growth of vegetables, fruits, flowers and other crops that require a lot of light. The new toplighting is available as of September 2018. In addition to higher light levels and improved efficiency, the high output modules will have...

By Paul Wilden | Head of Capital Markets Services Change is coming to the European securitization market. Some of the changes and new regulations are clear and relatively easily implemented, while others remain vague and will probably have a high impact on business process. It’s no secret that securitization products played a big role in the US subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 - complex, opaque and lightly differentiated securitization led to a market meltdown. The effects of the crisis are still...

By Melissa Claessens Belgium has an attractive special tax regime for foreign executives and specialised employees temporarily employed in Belgium. 8 August was its 35th (!) anniversary. Since that day in 1983 the currently applicable regime has been set out in a Tax Letter. Although the tax regime is very attractive, it is not flawless and the reshaping of Belgian income taxes, over the past years, also had its impact. In the coming weeks, we will highlight and summarise the main...

Although legal collections in France tend to be expensive for a creditor, they can result in a judgment far in advance of the time required in the United States to secure a similar remedy. To begin with, it should be noted that the statute of limitations on B2B claims is five years, whether there is an existing contract or not.  It should also be noted that in the absence of a contractual provision, the statutory interest rate in France is...

By Yves Van Couter  The EU – US Privacy Shield was adopted in July 2016 as a replacement of the Safe Harbor regime, which was struck down by the EU Court of Justice (“CJEU”). Both regimes secured the transfer of personal data between the EU and the US. In order to receive personal data from the EU for commercial purposes, and in the absence of another legal ground for such data transfer, US companies have to self-certify with the US...

By Darrel H. Pearson and Margaret M. Kim On August 14, 2018, the Canadian government undertook public consultations to examine whether imports of seven steel products warrant safeguard action.1 The products under review are: steel plate, concrete reinforcing bar, energy tubular products, hot-rolled sheet, pre-painted steel, stainless steel wire, and wire rod (product description including HS codes are found in the Annex to the Department of Finance Notice). Consultations will address whether the named steel products are being imported in such increased quantities as to “cause or...