Member News
Member News
Member News
Hello and welcome to the first installment of “Consolidated Regulatory and Supply Chain News”
This update brought to us on a quarterly basis by RAF Solutions offers members of the EACC high level information on news that could affect the trans-ocean business of import and export to / from the U.S. This will mostly be organized by type of information (i.e. ocean freight, air freight, regulations on either side, etc) but there may be some crossover in sections since one new regulation co...
Calling Executives of Mid-size businesses: PARTICIPATE IN OUR TRANSATLANTIC INVESTMENT SURVEY 
Since the start of 2024, new opportunities and hurdles have appeared for businesses with foreign trade and investment projects. 
Regulations, such as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the US and the EU’s 2020 Green Deal, have opened new markets. 
What are the opportunities and barriers of your foreign trade and investment projects? 
We invite you to share your feedback in a 4-minute surve...
On March 12 and in a Miami Dade College room packed with Members & Friends, students, faculty, activists and representatives from the local transatlantic business and international relations communities, EACC Florida was delighted to welcome European Union Deputy Ambassador to the United States, Michael Curtis, who offered the EU’s perspective on some of the key developments confronting the transatlantic relationship and world balance today.
In conversation with Miami Herald journalist ...
EACC Florida is delighted to welcome new Corporate Member NOVUS INK Advisors and looks forward to a fruitful relationship!
In their own words:
NOVUS INK Advisors is a communications, public and government affairs advisory firm built for a world of complexity where today’s C-suite and Business Strategy meets trusted Advisors. Our purpose is simple, to advance our clients’ business strategy through senior counsel and clear communications. Our objective, to enhance and protect a brand’s re...
EACC Florida is delighted to welcome TecEx as a new Corporate Member and looks forward to a fruitful relationship!
In their own words:
TecEx specializes in the import and exports of IT hardware and networking equipment into over 200 global locations. We offer a streamlined, full door-to-door, hassle free service, whereby we act as the importer of record (IOR-registered entity in the destination country), take care of all compliance, shipping documents, permits and licenses. We clear the...
EACC Florida is delighted to welcome as a new Corporate Member the European Railway Clusters Initiative – ERCI.
As the rail sector’s largest dedicated B2B networking organisation, ERCI (European Railway Clusters Initiative) connects entities and ideas and brings together customers, suppliers and supply chain opportunities. Today ERCI is a metacluster grouping together 17 clusters of 16 European countries.
ERCI helps develop partnerships as a means to promote the needs of the rail tran...
Whether in search of reduced costs, improved service or simply a sense of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), companies – large and small – are rapidly moving to adopt the increasingly powerful artificial intelligence business tools (“AI”) now available to them. These companies are using AI both as a standalone technology for specialized use cases and/or embedding it within common enterprise software systems that handle core business processes.
These are precisely the issues w...
EACC Florida warmly welcomes boutique law firm Schlentrich Law as a new Corporate Member!
In their own words:
SCHLENTRICH LAW
Schlentrich Law, a boutique law firm based in the heart of Miami, offers high-quality legal advice to private and corporate clients in Business Law, Immigration Law, Real Estate Law, and Trusts & Estates.
The firm’s founder, Barbara Schlentrich, holds a Juris Doctor cum laude and Master of Laws in International Law from the University of Miami. She is admitted ...
From left to right: Alan Sutin, Christina Sleszynska, CG Lisette den Breems and Scott Bettridge
On February 25, EACC Florida President Alan Sutin (Greenberg Traurig), Board Member Scott Bettridge (Cozen O’Connor) and Executive Director Christina Sleszynska attended a lovely reception at the Residence of the new Consul General of The Netherlands Lisette den Breems. The event was attended by local officials, the Consular Corps, representatives from the Dutch and international community ac...
Where in Miami can you have a meeting in the corporate offices of an iconic company – whose motto is “Créateurs de Convivialité” – featuring a bar complete with bar-tender and fully stocked with some of the best-known spirits in the world?
The answer is … Pernod Ricard’s offices in Miami’s Blue Lagoon, home of the Caribbean and Central America, Travel Retail Americas and Pernod Ricard USA Florida divisions!
The New Year Celebration hosted by Pernod Ricard on January 25 was EACC Florida’...
EACC Florida is delighted to welcome PICadvanced US LLC as a new Corporate Member and looks forward to supporting you as you establish your operations in the United States!
In their own words:
PICadvanced US LLC
In the field of telecommunications, namely the fiber to the home, PICadvanced has been a disruptor. With active presence in the standards and fora our activities gravitate around innovation and leadership: we have purposed ourselves to be the disruptor in access networks with ...
Left to right: Scott Bettridge (Cozen O’Connor – Treasurer EACC Florida), H.E. Michel Gerebtzoff, Consul General of Belgium, Alan Sutin (Greenberg Traurig, President EACC Florida), Bart Steuker (CEO AGORIA), Isabel Michiels, Julie de Bergeyck, Frederick Tibau (Team AGORIA), Manuel Molina (Honorary Consul of Belgium in Miami)
On December 13, EACC Florida welcomed to Miami 50 of Belgium’s most forward-looking tech companies with a seminar titled “Introduction to South Fl...
On December 7th, EACC Florida held an Invitation-Only Industry Briefing with Kristian Hedberg, Minister Counsellor, Mobility & Transport at the EU Delegation in Washington DC. The event was hosted by Cozen O’Connor.
Kristian Hedberg updated our guests on the EU’s transportation and mobility agenda with a focus on innovation and sustainability including areas of coordination with the United States. Topics discussed included the European Green Deal, the decarbonization and electrification agend... 
On November 14, EACC Florida President Alan Sutin and Executive Director Christina Sleszynska were pleased to attend a reception with His Excellency Marek Magierowski, Ambassador of Poland to the United States.
This was neither his first nor his last official visit to Miami as one of his stated objectives is to place Florida firmly into the growing trade and economic relationship between Poland and the United States.
We wish him success in this endeavor and stand ready to play our part ...
The guide highlights the key issues for businesses to consider if they have staff living and working in one country for the benefit of a company in a different country, whether they are employed directly or via a Professional Employment Organisation/Employer of Record. Read more.
Compliments Squire Patton Boggs
A new regulation under the federal Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) will require disclosure of information about all corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships (unless exempt) and personal information about their beneficial owners as well as personal information about the persons who form those entities. This requirement is effective on January 1, 2024 for all such entities unless otherwise exempt by the regulation. Read more.
Compliments Cozen O’Connor
Recently there have been increasingly frequent reports of the tax authorities taking a particular interest in the IT industry. Tax offices are undertaking investigations and initiating audits regarding the use of tax preferences in the form of author’s deductible costs (50% costs) by salaried IT specialists and are also taking a closer look at the tax settlements of self-employed IT specialists. Read more.
Compliments Greenberg Traurig
With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), companies and the general public are actively discussing renewable energy. Solar, wind, geothermal, and other unconventional sources of energy are popular topics. Tax credits, in particular, attract attention. Although the IRA contains provisions that offer incentives to parts of the hydrocarbon industry, overlooked in many cases are developments in the alternative fuels sector that predate the IRA, and that leads us to ships, ports...
If your company does business in the United Kingdom (UK) and is part of a multinational group, it’s time to review your UK transfer pricing documentation in light of new regulations. Following the enactment of the Spring Finance Bill 2023, and the publication of The Transfer Pricing Records Regulations 2023 in July 2023, the UK implemented mandatory transfer pricing documentation requirements. The new requirements are aligned to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...
EACC Florida Executive Director attended the International Economic Forum of the Americas 2023 held at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami on 11/6-7. The 2-day event was very well-attended with excellent speakers and sessions. The forum was a great opportunity to network, connect or re-connect with local officials, diplomats, academia and members from the international business community. A few EACC Florida Members were spotted at the event.
Highlights included sessions on “Reinventing the Supp...
On October 12, as part of our “Why Florida” Series, EACC Florida hosted a group of companies and clusters from across Europe with business in the rail industry.
The delegation was led by the leading meta-cluster of the railway industry in Europe uniting 16 innovation clusters from 16 European countries and itself representing 2.000 small and medium-sized businesses in the Railway industry. In addition to the cluster representatives, large and small companies from Italy, Spain and German...
Transfer pricing helps an organization analyze and document transactions between related parties for consistency with the arm’s-length principle, enabled with people, process, and technology capabilities. Read more.
Compliments Kaufman Rossin
The IRS is aware that some high-income taxpayers are using complex passthrough structures to avoid paying income tax, and the Global High Wealth team will be closely aligned with this new unit. Passthrough entities include partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations. Read more.
Compliment Greenberg Traurig
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) Bureau of Consular Affairs announced that the online registration period for the 2025 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program), also known as the Green Card Lottery, will begin on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), and will conclude on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, at 12:00 pm EDT. Read more.
Compliments Cozen O’Connor
IN ITALIAN – The article discusses the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a new regulation to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit activities. Read more.
Compliments Cozen O’Connor
Gardenode is a Belgian company specializing in the design, distribution and sale of composite and aluminum fencing and screening products for professionals.
At Gardenode, our aim is simple: to provide the best possible service to our customers, all over the world.
As a key player in the world of outdoor landscaping, our ambition is to innovate and guarantee unique, reliable, quality products. We are concerned with the ecological impact of our materials, such as our composite fences made...
Consul General of Germany Christofer Burger and EACC Florida Executive Director Christina Sleszynska
EACC Florida was honored to be on the guest list of Germany’s new Consul General in Florida Christofer Burger at a beautiful and well-attended reception held at the Biltmore Hotel on October 3rd, 2023. The occasion was the Day of German Unity, which commemorates German reunification in 1990 when the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany were reunited into a singl...
EACC Florida is delighted to welcome the Miami Downtown development Authority – Miami DDA – as a new Member ! In their own words:
The Miami Downtown Development Authority (Miami DDA) is an independent agency of the City of Miami funded by a special tax levy on properties within its district boundaries. The agency is governed by a 15-member board of directors, including three public appointees and 12 downtown property owners, business owners, and/or residents. The board sets policy direc...
