Part 1: How to Claim Preferential Tariff Treatment Baker McKenzie experts from Canada, US and Mexico deliver a 75-minute session to understand the impact of the agreement from a customs perspective in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Panelists discuss the agreement’s most pressing issues in the customs landscape, including…
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to give rise to a wave of distressed companies looking for buyers or…
In the past months, also Austrian companies faced major challenges. Declines in business have made short-time work (Kurzarbeit)…
This series of ESG-focused thought leadership webinars will share insights and practical guidance for businesses considering what ESG means for them in the context of the current crisis and beyond. 1 July 2020 ESG and the Modern Customer View recording Speakers: Jo Hewitt (Chair), Beatriz Araujo, Nick O’Donnell and David…
Further guidance on flexible furlough has been published. The scheme was announced on 1 June 2020 and will go live on 1 July 2020. A new Treasury Direction for the scheme will be required; it remains to be seen whether this will alter or add to the announced conditions. In the meantime, the main new detail in the guidance is a seeming requirement for express written consent to be flexibly furloughed. There are also complex rules about how you calculate flexible furlough pay and when flexible furlough can start depending on if and for how long an employee was furloughed in June 2020.
The Autonomous Service of Registries and Notaries (“SAREN”) published on June 14, 2020 in its website’s news section and in its social media1 an announcement about the incorporation of Commercial Registries, Public Registries, Public Notaries and Principal Registries (“Registries and Notaries”) to the 7+7 easing timetable established by the National Executive.
The 7+7 easing timetable consists of seven quarantine days per seven easing days, until there is a vaccine for COVID-19. Registries and Notaries will only open in specific work hours within the seven days of the easing period.
To this date, no regulation in this respect has been published through an Official Gazette.
The European Commission (“Commission”) published a White Paper proposing to create three new review mechanisms aimed at addressing the potential distortive effects caused by foreign subsidies in the Single market generally; in acquisitions of EU companies; and during EU public procurement procedures.
A public consultation is now open until 23 September 2020 during which stakeholders can provide their views on the options set out in the White Paper.
The new mechanisms would apply to all non-EU companies benefitting from non-EU subsidies.
New filing obligations would apply if non-EU subsidies might have a distortive effect on competition on the EU market.
A tech-entwined world necessarily puts focus on technology companies and the opportunities that arise with them. TMT Talk, the Global TMT industry podcast, will help you navigate and prioritize via insights from top legal advisers in strategic technology markets. We’ll go into the issues, how they affect businesses, society, and the way players deal with them.
COVID-19 has led to an increase in online business dealings and transactions, which has resulted in a steady rise in cybercrime. Criminals are using techniques such as authorized push payment fraud to steal large sums of money from unsuspecting individuals and entities. Wian Steyn, Senior Associate, and Rui Lopes, Associate, in the Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Johannesburg, discuss how this fraud takes place, and the legal obligations and duties imposed on investment managers, investors and banks, to protect against it.
The CMA has begun to take action against businesses operating in the holiday accommodation sector that it considers are failing to comply with the law.
This follows the CMA guidance in late April on consumer cancellations and refunds, and the announcement that it would be focusing on the sectors against which it had received the most complaints. On 9 June the CMA press release stated that “following CMA action, a major holiday lets company is now offering refunds for cancelled bookings, while others are facing further scrutiny over their policies”.