Sentences with phrase «foreign law issues»

Experienced litigator and regularly acts as counsel in arbitral tribunals, often where EU, competition or foreign law issues arise — in appropriate circumstances also acts as expert witness.

Further, the confidential arbitration proceedings in which David has been involved have frequently given rise to foreign law issues and disputes in relation to the interaction between the law of the contract and the law of a foreign state (e.g. in the context of capacity, authority, illegality or force majeure).

Not exact matches

Amid promises of more of the same, there is slight hope that the Conservative government might finally address a long neglected issue — foreign ownership laws.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Appearing generally supportive of the law's content, the substantial revision requests, which pertain to a range of issues beyond tax and foreign investment, are the latest hurdle in Russia's long road to cryptocurrency regulation.

-- With the spotlight on him, the president's son - in - law has become «paranoid,» CNN reports: «Kushner also feels that he has come under fire from his own West Wing colleagues recently, with the notion that «everyone is out to get him,» a source said... Kushner... told people that he suspected the timing of the story about his foreign contacts was coordinated to be released when issues surrounding his security clearance were in the news, according to a source familiar with his thinking.»

«Current - affairs news» is a broad term in China and encompasses all news and commentary related to politics, economics, military, foreign affairs and social issues, according to the draft version of China's online information law.

However, the removal of foreign criminals is effected by legal issues Green said, saying that the UK Borders Agency (UKBA) had to «operate within the law».

The France - Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, founded in partnership with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aims to bridge the disciplines of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Engineering, Business and Law, addressing historical and contemporary issues of significance for France and the United States from a broad range of perspectives.

It will keep law enforcement from wasting resources intended to fight serious issues like human trafficking on investigations of legitimate international dating agencies and help reduce the still powerful stigma against the overwhelmingly positive relationships between Western men and foreign women that start online.

Volume 37 — Issue 3 Fordham International Law Journal «Getting Caught Between the Borders: The Proposed Exemption of the Canadian Mutual Fund from the Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules»

The foreign tax credit rules are very complex, and it's not obvious whether the Mexican taxes at issue are creditable under U.S. law, or even if payments for a given year would generate tax credits that would be usable by Pride.

The other issues in Rio are mostly trouble for an American president, having to do with foreign assistance, inequitable distribution of wealth and power, oceans (the United States is still blocked from ratifying the Law of the Sea treaty by a small Senate bloc) and efforts to find common approaches to conserving global assets like the planet's biological diversity — a fight far beyond the power of a single leader to sway.

But a 2001 law that authorized economic land concessions, ostensibly to aid development, has allowed the government to seize farmers» properties and issue long - term leases to foreign investors.

One general issue seems to be US government employees have believed they could disdain US laws, because in their imaginations they are in service to foreign governments (the UN).

As immigration policies are being debated, understanding how these laws affects foreign nationals with respect to human rights, labour and litigation, is becoming a highly complex and critical issue.

Nevertheless, para 108 of Radmacher makes it clear that issues of foreign law are relevant to the intentions of the parties (eg whether or not they intended that the ante-nuptial agreement should be binding upon them).

Dr. Julian Kutschelis advises both foreign and domestic clients in all matters of corporate law with a special focus on issues of corporate compliance, including white collar criminal matters.

As evasion of foreign tax laws became a predicate offence around the same time that FATCA was introduced it is possible that Singapore FFIs may have less of an issue in this regard if they off - boarded their problematic accounts prior to the new AML law coming into effect.

Dar Al Arkan v Al Refai: conspiracy claim involving allegations of unlawful conduct under Bahraini, Saudi and Malaysian law, and issues as to the actionability of a conspiracy to use means unlawful under foreign law.

Much of his practice focuses on large - scale commercial litigation, often with a significant international element, involving conflicts of law and foreign law systems as well as issues of jurisdiction.

Topics in the 2016 Edition include: Special Considerations in Representing Noncitizen Defendants, Federal Firearms Offenses, International and Foreign Law, Crime in Indian Country, Federal Sex Offenses, Common Constitutional Issues that Arise During Trial, International Border - Crossing Offenses, Mental Health Issues in Federal Criminal Practice, Evidence, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Plea Agreements, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and more!

For his international matters, Boyle regularly handles cross-border discovery, choice of law and foreign law application, and issues related to the activities of American companies in projects outside of the U.S.

Edward's recent experience includes dealing with property other than land in England, including disputes concerning a luxury yacht, and also with foreign real property and conflicts of laws issues, including a claim in connection with a purported sale of a group of Balinese islands, and a case concerning the declaration of trusts pursuant to English law over French land.

The continued focus on enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on conduct by affiliated entities of US corporations impacts our investigations work, as we know that ethics issues that arise need to be viewed not just as potential violations of local law and not just as local employment - or labor - issues, but need to be reviewed and addressed with the scrutiny applicable in the US under our corporate ethics standard.

Ownership of foreign investors in some sectors might be increased to 100 % instead of 70 % although this is not certain until the official New Foreign Capital Investment Law is foreign investors in some sectors might be increased to 100 % instead of 70 % although this is not certain until the official New Foreign Capital Investment Law is Foreign Capital Investment Law is issued.

There are a number of draft laws currently being considered by various governmental bodies for issue in 2018 or 2019 including: the Public - Private - Partnership Law, new Foreign Capital Investment Law and the new Commercial Companies Law.

The next libraries that will be released in searchable form are: European Center for Minority Issues, Foreign & International Law Resources Database, Philip C. Jessup Library, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP), and the U.S. Attorney General Opinions Library.

Incorporation of foreign and international rules and principles will require skills of synthesis and distinguishing that are distinct from traditional domestic legal reasoning, and they may require appreciation of important differences in foreign / international legal, political, or perhaps even cultural context.63 International legal rules often play a complex role in domestic law, presenting issues of interpretation and enforceability that do not easily fit within traditional domestic United States legislative, administrative, and judicial legal structures.64 Integration or application of rules from foreign nations may be even more complex, especially where those systems are substantially different from our own.65 Additionally, there may be discrepancies between the form and function of foreign or international law that affect their proper application.

In his short judgment, Justice Steel also agreed that a judgment issued by the DIFC Courts on recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment «is in fact a domestic judgment and accordingly falls within the scope of Article 7 (2) of the Judicial Authority Law.»

Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.

The most informative result from the survey is that a substantial majority, 51 67.5 percent, of the respondents reported that they had worked on a legal matter that required them to know something about foreign and / or international law.52 This response (see Appendix C) supports our original thesis that international and comparative legal issues have become part of the general practice of law.

LRW professors may legitimately ask why foreign or international law should take priority over other legal issues that may also be neglected in the first year.90 For example, lawyers in practice often face issues arising under regulations but administrative law is rarely the focus in most LRW courses.

Estate lawyers told us they faced issues regarding tax and probate laws of other countries in situations in which the decedent or heirs might be foreign nationals or the estate property was located overseas.

Dr. Julian Kutschelis advises both foreign and domestic clients in all matters of corporate law with a special focus on issues of corporate compliance, including white collar... Read More

He regularly advises on private international law claims, particularly in connection with tortious liability, including applicable law, the application of foreign law, jurisdiction, procedural issues arising in such litigation as well as issues arising under Rome II Regulation (EC) No 864/2007.

Empirically, it is based on the rapid increase in transnational2 interaction (both business and personal) and the resulting development of increasingly complex and increasingly frequent legal problems that raise transnational legal issues as well.3 Normatively, it rests on the view that legal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriculum.

But at this juncture it is much less possible to practice law without confronting some issue arising from international or foreign law.

He is also regularly involved in multi-jurisdictional disputes, involving complex jurisdictional issues or concurrent foreign proceedings or where the substantive law of the English proceedings is not English law.

Ralph Steinhardt has authored a case book on what he calls «intermestic law,» that is the «the variety of foreign, domestic, and international sources from which domestic courts derive a rule of decision, as well as the logistical difficulties they face when rules, attorneys, clients, and issues show little if any respect for physical or political borders.»

Advising manufacturing clients on international distribution issues, including compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and foreign laws prohibiting bribery and corruption in connection with the sale ofForeign Corrupt Practices Act and foreign laws prohibiting bribery and corruption in connection with the sale offoreign laws prohibiting bribery and corruption in connection with the sale of goods.

The speech of Lord Collins touches on a number of important jurisdictional topics, including the correct test to be applied when a foreign legal system is alleged to be corrupt and the «justiciability» of that issue under English and Manx law, as well as the circumstances in which an English or Manx Court will decline to recognise an improperly obtained foreign judgment.

The SCC took the opportunity to issue a warning to other multinational companies who might find themselves caught in a conflict between foreign and Canadian laws: Blind compliance with discriminatory foreign laws has consequences.

Over the past few years, Asian competition authorities have been engaging in regular bilateral and multilateral meetings with their foreign counterparts both within and beyond Asia, to discuss general issues in competition law as well as specific cases.

Handles many cases with expert evidence of foreign law and where conflict of laws issues are uppermost.

Despite the foregoing, foreign authorities may obtain access to protected data only in the following circumstances: (i) if CVM and the foreign authority have an agreement regulating the exchange of information; (ii) via cooperation treaties (eg, mutual legal assistance treaty, MLAT); or (iii) if a foreign court order is issued and validated in Brazil via due process of law.

An application can be made to the DIFC Court to recognise a foreign court money judgment rendered in England (or from another jurisdiction) and once there is a DIFC Court Judgment / Order recognizing the foreign judgment the party seeking enforcement can now request the DIFC Court to issue an execution letter to the Chief Justice of the Dubai Courts pursuant to Article 7 (2) of the Judicial authority Law.

Real estate partners Mitchell Berg and Peter Fisch's latest transactional real estate column, «Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate,» appeared in the September 13 issue of the New York Law Journal.

Konamaneni v Rolls - Royce Derivative claim in relation to foreign company, raising conflicts of laws issues.

Conversely, he points to the issue of libel tourism to illustrate an area where the English courts apply the law globally, where they should not, allowing foreign litigants to pursue cases in this country.