Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital Congress. The Senate is in recess this week, and will return Monday, July 20. House appropriators plan to approve all twelve of their FY 2021 spending bills in full committee by the end of this week. The full committee will markup Energy-Water and Labor-HHS-Education today, Defense, Commerce-Justice-Science and […]
On June 26, 2020, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an extension to Executive Order 2020-30 until July 26, 2020, and has suggested as of June 17, 2020, that potential tenant assistance grants may be available in August 2020 for those who have accrued rent due to a COVID-19 related hardship. This suspension effectively halts evictions for nonpayment of […]
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital The House. The House will vote this Friday on a bill to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state, marking the first time Congress has voted on the issue since 1993. The House Armed Services Committee will also start marking up its version of the annual defense authorization bill […]
The new Data Protection Law, DIFC Law No.5 of 2020 (“DP Law”), came into force on 1 July 2020, replacing the Data Protection Law, DIFC Law No.1 of 2007. The DP Law will bring the DIFC closer in line with international models which have been adopted in Europe and the US, such as the EU’s […]
Attorney at law Constantin BRÂNZAN, a career magistrate until 2018, with more than four decades of judicial experience, has joined POPESCU & ASOCIAȚII team within the Litigation and Arbitration Department. A renowned jurist, with a doctoral degree (2001), and a postgraduate degree in civil law (1987), he has a solid expertise, acquired during a long […]
July 6th, 2020 – Gall, a leading independent Hong Kong law firm focusing primarily on dispute resolution, announced today that Kajal Aswani has joined the firm as a Partner in the Family & Divorce practice. Kajal joins from Robertsons in Hong Kong where she was a Partner from 2015. “Kajal brings a depth of experience […]
Wolfs Advocaten is upon collaboration with Tom Zuber of Zuber Lawler (Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Silicon Valley) currently assisting an international cannabis grower with its registration for the new Dutch cannabis experiment and also with setting up the necessary legal entity in the Netherlands. Background The coffee shops in the Netherlands exist in their […]
ADG Egypt Series Part 1: Logistics, Manufacturing, Agriculture and Healthcare Written by Josh Kemp, Dina Assar and Shams ElkodamaJune 2020 After several years of instability in Egypt which has brought difficulties for its economy, the country is experiencing a resounding recovery. It has become one of the fastest-growing economies in the region, as the IMF […]
An employee is not automatically entitled to work from home during the corona crisis, according to a judgment in a provisional court proceedings. On May 6, the employer has sent an email stating that the employees were expected back in the office as of May 8. On May 7, a press conference was held by Dutch Prime […]
Foreward by Andrew Chilvers Businesses across the world are undergoing the biggest remote working experiment since Europeans first sailed from their home ports to set up trading posts in Asia 500 years ago. This time around, however, companies are moving colleagues out of their plush city centre locations to set up offices at home. What […]
Foreward by Andrew Chilvers Global commerce is by its nature a complex beast and it is inevitable that sometimes disputes arise between companies doing business across the world. As more international deals are signed off – often in greater degrees of complexity than will have been done in the past – it has also led […]
A special contribution from Dennis Boyle* Sanctions are a powerful tool in the United States’ foreign policy arsenal. Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA),1 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), armed with only an executive order, has the power to designate individuals, corporations, organizations or even countries […]
