We are pleased to publish this month a contribution entitled Post-Election Analysis 2016: Trade, authored by our colleagues Raul R. Herrera, Partner, J. David Park, Partner, Dana Weekes, Associate and Amy Davenport, Senior Policy Specialist, at the US law firm Arnold & Porter LLP.
Accidents, labor disruptions, financial crisis, news stories, class actions, etc. A multiplicity of more or less serious reasons may lead to negative media coverage for a company, whatever its branch of activity, its size, its location and its reputation.
We are pleased to publish this month a contribution entitled FTC Releases Report on Patent Assertion Entities, Calls for Reforms to Reduce Nuisance Patent Lawsuits, authored by our colleagues Kay Lynn Brumbaugh, Partner, John H. McDowell, Partner, Susan A. Smith, Partner, John R. Seward, Counsel, and Sushila Chanana, Associate, at the US law firm Andrews Kurth.
A recent case – there is no need to mention the name of the person involved since the media have extensively echoed the accusations made by boy scout victims of sexual abuses by a priest in the 1980’s and at the beginning of 1991 following the recent indictment of such priest on charges of sexual […]
In South Africa, the determination of whether a foreign entity is a company or partnership is an important one as it subsequently determines the applicable tax treatment of the foreign entity. The issue of whether foreign entities should be recognized as foreign companies or foreign partnerships in South Africa, was recently brought into the spotlight once again by the Taxation Laws Amendment Act No. 25 of 2015.