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By AEM Carnelutti «Balancing, innovating and competing. These are the three seemingly conflicting objectives of flexible working, a new approach to corporate organization where individual employees’ needs fit in with the needs of the company in a complementary manner». The above quotation was taken from the first paragraph of the Italian Labor Ministry’s website (www.cliclavoro.gov.it) on the Flexible Work Law governed by Law no. 81 dated 22 May 2017 (“FL”), “measures aimed to support flexible organization of work time and...

By Carrie Mast | Director of Operations | Loki Labs Inc. It’s Cyber Monday! In preparation for another holiday season, here are some tips to stay safe while you shop online this year: If you are shopping on your phone or computer and using an unknown Wi-Fi connection, save the purchases for later. Don’t enter any personal information such as name, address, or credit card number until you are on a secure and known connection. Before you do anything on a website,...

By Marieke Bredenoord-Spoek | Senior Associate Amsterdam | +31 20 546 03 43 | Stibbe On 14 November 2017, the European Court of Justice rendered its judgment on a request for a preliminary ruling from the French Supreme Court. The Court clarified the conditions under which competition rules must be applied to agricultural producer organisations (POs). POs are established to pursue the objectives of the common agricultural policy and may – if certain criteria are met – be exempted from...

By Loyens & Loeff When making cross-border investment decisions, Dutch resident entrepreneurs often face the question whether a foreign investment should be set up in the form of a foreign subsidiary (participation) or in the form of a branch (permanent establishment). Not only Dutch tax considerations play a part in this choice. Also in the country in which the investment takes place, the consequences of investing via a participation or via a permanent establishment may differ. In this issue of Quoted,...

By Sharon Sutherland | Nadia Woodhouse | Ernst & Young The ongoing digital business revolution is unlocking exciting new opportunities across sectors, but as our report notes, it is important that organizations and boards continue to acknowledge and address any associated new risks, including the following: New cybersecurity threats continue to emerge in part due to the increasing proliferation of connected devices and digital entry-points to business ecosystems. Markets are becoming more volatile and unpredictable whilst customers are becoming...

By Onno Bouwmeister | Malcolm Pobjoy | VISTRA Alternative investing has gone from a gold-rush industry to one of market turbulence, regulatory oversight, and intense competition. In turn, fund administration has transformed. What was once a relatively straightforward outsourcing of fund accounting has now become a more complex and tailored delegation of operational expertise that requires savvy professionals and sophisticated IT at the ready. Hedge funds were early adopters of outsourcing, but now private equity managers are responding, by outsourcing a variety...