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China-Cuba Foreign Direct Investment: U.S.’ Opportunity

June 28, 2017

Recent Chinese investment has failed to materialize into growth for Cuba. Further, bills from both the House and Senate to lift the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba spur a new opportunity for global companies. Situated 90 miles off the tip of Florida, Cuba has been subject to a trade embargo for 59 years, outliving the…

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Having Children Could Limit Travel For Italian Citizens

June 19, 2017

Reading the heading above, one would think that having children makes it more difficult for everyone to travel, no matter their nationality. Well, for Italians with minors there is one additional challenge which could become a big hurdle in case of divorces or separations. On June 26, 2012, a few things changed for Italian parents…

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Licensing Requirements For Setting up a New Corporation

June 14, 2017

Setting up a new business involves planning, making key decisions and completing a series of legal steps. A few preliminary steps include choosing a name, a business structure, and registering your business. Other steps include contemplating tax implications and licensing. For instance, the State of North Carolina does not issue a single business license; therefore,…

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Understanding Ballparks – Our Guide to American Idioms for the Business World

June 12, 2017

Americans love sports and we certainly love to talk about it! So it is not surprising at all that a lot of terms and expressions from the world of sports have become omnipresent in everyday language and are often used in the business world too. If you have ever wondered what your American business partners…

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Italian Citizenship jure sanguinis via ancestor and equality treatment

June 6, 2017

For many reasons it now seems there is an enhanced interest in obtaining a citizenship other than a US one. While I believe that having a dual citizenship in general is always a good thing, having a US citizenship plus another from one the EU countries is even better. For one, once you are a…

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Donald Trump and the German Trade Surplus

June 2, 2017

Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy has been the subject to much controversy in global politics and trade making European powers, particularly Germany, nervous about the stability of their alliances with the United States. At a recent campaign rally in Munich German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated, “the times we can completely rely on others are…

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NC Court of Appeals’ Clarifications on ADA Reasonable Accomodations

May 19, 2017

The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) requires employers to provide accomodations to employees with disabilities so that they are able to perform the essential functions of the job. However, to what extent can employers experiment with such accommodations? A few weeks ago, in Rittelmeyer v. Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina…

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Predictive Justice in France

May 10, 2017

Predictive Justice is a program developed by the start-up company Predictice that allows lawyers to assess their chances of winning a trial. Simply with a single click, an algorithm calculates the probability of resolving a dispute, the amount of available damages, and identifies the most influential elements in judicial decisions by searching through a database…

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Telecom Executives Agree to Pay Penalties for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violation

May 4, 2017

Sometimes foreign executives forget that U.S. law can reach them and their companies, particularly if they issue securities in the United States. The case of three former executives at Magyar Telekom, a telecommunications provider from Hungary, whom the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged with having violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is just…

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Phone scam using phone number from HHS Office of Inspector General’s hotline

April 24, 2017

The OIG hotline phone number for reporting fraud 1-800-HHS-TIPS has been spoofed. This means that thousands of individuals across the country have received scam phone calls with this seemingly trustworthy number appearing on the display. The callers managed to trick some of the individuals who answered the phone into giving and confirming personal information and…

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