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Member News
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Oct
By Robert Rosenblum, with contributions from Susan Gault-Brown, Greg Broome, Todd Carpenter, Amy Caiazza, John Sullivan, and Tyler Kirk. WSGR
Initial coin offerings (ICOs), token pre-sales, and similar sales of blockchain-based coins and tokens are quickly becoming an important fundraising option, and an important method of attempting to seed a token-based platform with sufficient "currency" (that is, tokens) to permit the platform to function as intended. With the end of 2017 in sight, it is useful to catalog what we...
13
Oct
By Eric Fort | Bruno Gasparotto | Alain Goebel |Thierry Lesage | Jan Neugebauer | Arendt & Medernach LLC
On 11 October 2017, and the last time before next year’s parliamentary elections, the current Luxembourg Finance Minister presented the budget law for 2018 to the Parliament (Chambre des Députés).The main tax-related provisions of the Bill of Law N° 7200 (“Bill”) as laid out below in more detail include inter alia:
Changes to the capital gains tax treatment of business restructurings;
Improvements...
13
Oct
By Jeffrey Mordaunt | Joshua Swedlow | Stout
Stout's Trends in Trade Secret Litigation Report details the latest findings from our continual monitoring of the federal trade secret litigation landscape.
The report also features the conclusions derived from our quantitative study on federal trade secret cases in which a verdict was derived or settlement information was publically available, over a 26-year period from 1990 to 2015. Our in-depth research and analysis focuses on:
The impact of the Defend Trade Secrets Act...
13
Oct
By Vulcan Consulting
BREXIT Negotiations reach a ‘’very disturbing state of deadlock’’ The fifth round of negotiations between the EU and UK concluded yesterday, with warnings from diplomats that talks had reached a political standstill and almost no substantial progress was made in the past few days. Although Michel Barnier, the EU’s top negotiator, said that decisive progress is still within reach before Christmas, he will not recommend to EU leaders at next weeks summit that ‘’sufficient progress’’ has...
12
Oct
By Pero Jolevski | Director | Blue Star Strategies, LLC
The June 2016 public referendum by the UK electorate to leave the European Union has dramatically affected London’s status as a banking and financial services hub. Previously, international banks operating out of London and doing business in the EU benefitted from the UK’s member status in the union. Now, with the UK’s pending exit, all that has changed, bringing new licensing requirements for banks whose EU operations are based in the...
11
Oct
By Philip A.S. Shepherd (Atlanta), Sara E. Herbek (Atlanta) Ogletree Deakins |
Following an announcement issued on October 2, 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin offering foreign nationals in certain categories the option to simultaneously file for work authorization and a social security number by filing a single form with USCIS. The new option, coming as a result of an interagency partnership between USCIS and the Social Security Administration (SSA), is effective immediately.
Applicants looking to take...
11
Oct
By Greet Wilkenhuysen | Romain Sabatier | Yoanna Stefanova| Nauta Dutilh
Modernisation of Luxembourg Company Law: General Meetings of Shareholders in an S.A. and an S.à r.l.
The Act of 10 August 2016 modernising Luxembourg company law and amending the Act of 10 August 1915 on commercial companies (the "Act") modifies certain rules with respect to the calling and holding of general meetings of shareholders of an S.A. and an S.à r.l.
The new rules are intended to facilitate the calling...
10
Oct
By World Ventures
What’s better than being your own boss, setting your own hours, determining your own salary and having an office wherever you happen to be? It’s a Utopian idea that is reality for tens of thousands of people working independently in direct sales worldwide. But getting there isn’t easy. It takes grit to abandon the familiar grind and build a business — especially in direct sales.
Just ask Wayne Nugent, founder and chief visionary officer of WorldVentures(TM), the leading...