On April 26, 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) sanctioned the Chief of Staff for former president Alvaro Colom and an elected delegate to the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala, pursuant to the 2016 Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (“GLOMAG”) and Executive Order (“E.O.”) 13818 of December 20, […]
The definition of what qualifies as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is not always clear — and alcoholism presents a particularly difficult issue. Although the disease of alcoholism falls within the scope of the ADA, the actions of an employer toward an alcoholic don’t always violate the law. One case that illustrates the […]
Click Here to Access the Recording, Download a Free Copy of the Presentation and Earn CLE. With climate change policy at the center of the Biden-Harris agenda, what impacts and opportunities will we see during the next four years, nationally and in California? A recent webinar featuring a nonpartisan panel of Manatt professionals from our government and regulatory […]
Eric J. Conn is a founding partner of Conn Maciel Carey and Chair of the firm’s national OSHA • Workplace Safety Practice Group. For more than twenty years now, Eric’s practice has focused exclusively on issues involving occupational safety and health law. Before launching his own OSHA Practice, Eric practiced for more than a decade alongside the […]
While famed business management consultant Peter Drucker (a la the Drucker Institute), once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it,” the challenge in 2021 is not a lack of metrics and data, but the overwhelming volume of them. Whether it is the influx of voluminous and complex business data from advanced IT […]
On the back of a challenging year (to say the very least), there’s reason for optimism when we consider that the Irish fintech industry experienced a record period of activity with almost $400m in M&A, venture capital and private equity transactions recorded in 2020 (source: KPMG – Pulse of Fintech H2’20 Report). The fintech industry […]
Introduction This note seeks to provide an overview of some of the key recent developments in the area of competition law with regards to the challenges brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic (“the pandemic”) and the disruption induced by digitalization and online marketplaces. Legal basis Competition law aims to ensure that firms operating in a […]
A recent decision1 of the Court of Appeal has clarified the principle of immunity from civil proceedings enjoyed by employers under the Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases (hereafter the “AIAOD”). This decision is also interesting in that it sets the record straight as to what does and does not qualify as constructive dismissal. Brief summary of the […]
A new political leadership was affirmed on April 5, 2021, at Vietnam’s 13th National Party Congress. The newly elected Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, a career security official, but also known to favor incentives for boosting economic growth, is anticipated to build on the positive economic ties fostered by Vietnam’s outgoing PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc. […]
PRESS RELEASE- On Wednesday, April 14, 2021, The Jerusalem Post put the spotlight on the professional services provided by The Aspen Trust Group for their commitment and understanding of Israeli business during its celebration of Israel’s 73rd Independence Day. As part of the newspaper’s focus on Cyprus as a regional business and investment hub, The Aspen Trust Group was featured as a leading service provider […]
Enduring a global pandemic may not be as traumatizing as military combat, but in both cases, the aftereffects can linger. When the smoke clears, there’s a lot of rebuilding that needs to happen to return to a state of normalcy. And as the COVID-19 pandemic finally begins to recede into the rearview mirror, another potentially disruptive […]
Foreward by Andrew Chilvers During the past two decades the key nations of Central and Eastern European (CEE) have grown significantly following moves to liberalise their economies. On average Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, to name a few, increased their per capita GDP by 115% between 2004-2020. Employment was at its lowest […]
