A sensible and often used way for UK companies to test the waters and get a foothold in the USA is to make initial inroads through service providers and consultants already based in and familiar with the American market. This…
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The American Limited Liability Company: An Entity Very Misunderstood by UK Business
If you’ve conducted any comprehensive research into expanding to the USA, you will likely have heard about a form of business entity called a Limited Liability Company (LLC). Certainly, if you’ve consulted with American lawyers based in the USA, such…
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WEBINAR: A US EMPLOYER’S GUIDE TO CORONAVIRUS MANAGEMENT: LEGAL TIPS FOR WORK AT HOME EMPLOYEES, AS WELL AS FEDERAL AND NEW YORK EMERGENCY LEAVE LAWS
For those who prefer webinars, the following is a fairly thorough discussion of some of the issues facing work at home employment as well as new federal and New York emergency employee leave and payment laws:
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FAMILIES FIRST CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE ACT: AN EMPLOYER’S SUMMARY OF SALIENT FEATURES
To address the Coronavirus emergency, on March 18, 2020, president trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. The act makes 2 primary changes to existing law: It expands rights already existing under the federal Family and Medical…
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COVID-19: LEGAL AND OPERATIONAL TIPS FOR ADMINISTERING WORK AT HOME EMPLOYEES
Covid-19 has upended everything we know and expect about our daily work routine. For the near term, and possibly even much of the foreseeable future, we will be forced to embrace some degree of social distancing in our work lives,…
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The Risk of Overwarning in Product Liability
The Risk of Overwarning By Kenneth Ross Kenneth Ross is of counsel to Bowman and Brooke LLP. He is the editor-in-chief of the third edition of the DRI Product Liability Compendium: Warnings, Instructions and Recalls (2019). He has written extensively…
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Federal Data Protection Legislation Stalled by Litigation Issues: A Uniquely American Conundrum
If you have any online commerce with America at all, then you probably know that the US has until recently had only the thinnest patchwork of state and federal laws governing personal data protection. There are a few federal regulation’s…
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The Most Common Reasons for US Employees to Sue Their Employers
How does one prepare a European SME expanding to America for 3 tiers of employment law … federal, state and local … in such a way as to make the instruction useful and accessible? One place to start is explaining…
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EU PARENT and US SUBSIDIARY: INTERCOMPANY TRANSACTIONS AND THE GDPR
Many of our clients that have expanded operations to the USA operate pursuant to a similar structure: A UK limited company establishes a US subsidiary to more effectively penetrate the US market, limit the UK parent’s liability in the USA…
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US Courts Offer Robust Protection of Trade Secrets, But the Contractual Protection Must be Clear
One of the most important decisions facing a European SME establishing a US subsidiary is who should manage a business at least 5000 kilometres away. Ideally the person would be an owner of both the parent and subsidiary, with obvious…
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