Mainly due to a $300 billion or so shortfall in corporate income tax collection in the USA, US companies operated as ‘offshore' companies in Europe by their European owners are facing increasingly risk harsh scrutiny by the US regulatory bodies for non-compliance with tax regulations. The...

In 2004, Latvia, a country of some 2.5 million inhabitants and a new European Union (EU) member state, made history by issuing the first ever Residential Backed Mortgage Security (RMBS) in the Baltics and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The securitization was effected by the Baltic-American...

The article presents some of the main features of the impending changes to the structure of the German GmbH by the introduction of the new Law Relating to GmbH's and on the Fighting of Abuses ('MoMiG'), due to be implemented in November 2008

The states of the European Union ('EU') comprise China's biggest commercial partner and trade between it and the EU states is continuing upward. However, recent times have brought about an increasing number of commercial cross-border disputes between the Chinese business domiciles and traders in...

The United States of America (quot;USAquot;) is among the 70 countries, including France, Germany, Holland and most of the new European Union States that have adopted the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (quot;CISGquot;). As a result of the growing...

One hundred and thirty years ago a LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. company, the Real Estate Title Insurance Company of Philadelphia (now, Commonwealth Land Title Company) issued the real estate industry's first title insurance policy. Since then, title insurance has gone on to become a standard...

This article comments on the development and application of design protection law in the European Union ('EU'), its scope in the context of other remedies available outside design registration and its utility in the context of the leading case of Procter & Gamble v. Reckitt Benckiser