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The Uniform Commercial Code and What it Means to Your Business
If your business conducts commercial transactions across state lines, you generally have to comply with a set of laws called the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). The UCC comes into play when your business establishes commercial contracts, sells goods, borrows money, leases equipment and much more. Here’s a brief rundown of this important set of laws, […]
The Importance of Budgeting: Taking Control of Your Financial Future
Budgets are a planning tool businesses use to manage their finances effectively. Budgeting involves developing a plan of your business activities or projects for a period of time, usually a year. In planning these activities, such as monthly sales and monthly purchases, targets are set and financial amounts are attached to these targets. A typical […]
Overview: Protection of Know-How Under the Republic of Indonesia’s Law
Information and data belonging to the company may be defined as valued information, including Know-how. Sometimes, information, data, and Know-how are perhaps the most overlooked and underestimated intellectual property assets. Know-how may be defined as information or knowledge merely acquired and known by the company about how to use or to make something more easily in business1. Know-how is created through […]
The Government has announced new measures, which it hopes will bring forward more onshore wind farm projects in England. In a written ministerial statement, issued following a consultation on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities set out updated planning policies for onshore wind development, saying that […]
China-Australia Relations: Opportunities, Challenges, and Latest Updates
China-Australia relations appear to be going back on track following a prolonged period of strained ties. In 2023, a series of notable diplomatic engagements took place between the two countries, creating momentum to facilitate a rebound in bilateral trade and commercial prospects.
KSEF – National e-invoice system. What is worth knowing about it?
Electronic invoices, i.e. invoices issued and received in any electronic form, such as PDF, are an everyday reality in economic life. They are usually issued using invoicing programs that include all mandatory invoice elements. Currently, electronic invoices, paper invoices and voluntarily issued e-Invoices in the KSeF system are used in business transactions . Issuing electronic and paper invoices will […]
Florida’s Digital Bill of Rights Becomes Law Florida enacted a new data privacy law that mirrors similar privacy laws in other states such as Virginia, Colorado, and Utah. Senate Bill 262, otherwise known as the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (“FDBR”), was signed into legislation by Governor Ron DeSantis on June 6 and will take effect […]
Black Bull Investors Club & Monetae have organized the first 100% Crypto & Blockchain meeting for private and institutional investors who want to learn more to […]
In August 2023, the Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC) adopted new and amended rules governing private fund advisers. Under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act), private fund advisers are either (i) subject to full registration as registered investment advisers (RIAs) under the Advisers Act (generally, advisers to non-venture capital funds with over […]
Warshaw Burstein, LLP, filed a lawsuit in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, on behalf of its client, Mullen Automotive, an emerging electric vehicle manufacturer, against TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, National Finance Services and others, alleging that these broker dealers engaged in a scheme to manipulate the share price of the Company’s […]
A lot of uncertainty has existed about the requirement for hospitals to notify M&A transactions to the Belgian Competition Authority (“BCA”). On 28 June 2023, the BCA decided to partially lift the stand-still obligation regarding a concentration between two hospitals, and it further clarified the applicable rules in a follow-up Communication of 14 July 2023. […]
By Megan Shaked This week the California Supreme Court in Raines v. U.S. Healthworks Medical Group decided that an employer’s business entity agents can be held directly liable under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) for employment discrimination in “appropriate circumstances when the business-entity agent has at least five employees and carries out FEHA-regulated activities on […]
