Where Europeans & Americans Connect to do Business |
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IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE IAN'S DESTRUCTIVE PASSAGE ACROSS MOST OF THE FLORIDA PENINSULA, EACC FLORIDA EXTENDS ITS HEART-FELT THOUGHTS TO OUR FELLOW FLORIDIANS AND THE MANY LIVES AND BUSINESSES WHICH WILL HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY THIS TERRIBLE EVENT. |
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A Message from the President |
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Recommend EACC Florida to a Client or Business Partner |
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EACC is a Connector
We open doors for our members across our chapter network on both sides of the Atlantic and we keep you informed on the relevant issues affecting your business.
Members of the EACC network enjoy:
♦ Access to our network of high-level business executives & our unique referral service
♦ Invitations to exclusive seminars & a direct exchange with transatlantic experts
♦ Visibility for your organization & opportunities to showcase your thought-leadership
♦ The ability to make a difference & actively engage in the Trans-Atlantic business dialogue
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Lunch & Learn
World Disrupted
Impact on Global Mobility and Recruitment
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022 |
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The impact of the Pandemic, the war in Ukraine, increasing inflation, energy disruptions, concerns about a global economic downturn as well as deep changes in work habits, are exacerbating the challenges faced by global companies as it relates to their markets, international operations, supply chains and workforce.
Whether you are a European company looking to establish or develop operations in the US, an American or Latin American company planning to expand to Europe or already operating globally, how do you handle talent retention and acquisition? What do you need to consider when recruiting new suppliers, vendors or when establishing manufacturing or operational bases across a larger number of countries? What about the trend toward geographic flexibility and hybrid workplaces? How are changing tax, social security and residency rules for mobile employees and business travelers impacting corporate decisions? Is there a Florida factor in recruitment of international talent and how is it materializing?
Join our panel of experts on all things immigration, taxation, expansion and recruitment for a Lunch & Learn on the latest developments in these areas.
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
- Digital nomad visas for remote working
- Social security tax obligations and treaties
- USCIS updates and prospective policy/processing reforms, RFE’s and immigrant visas
- US Consulate/Embassy Processing/frustrations, extension of COVID-19 flexibilities, and impact on travel
- Tips for recruiting and retaining talent with immigration issues
- Impact of the perceived recession and the ever-changing mindset of the candidate
- Creating an attractive offering in this time of growth and uncertainty beyond the $$
- Evolving debate on work from home, hybrid or in office dynamics
- Changing roles (CMO as an example) and the impact of technology, new trends, global crisis on these role
SPEAKERS
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Scott Bettridge, Chair Immigration Practice – Cozen O’Connor
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Karen Fonseca, Vice-President Business Development – HRP Americas Business Sales Lead – TMF Group [Moderator]
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Matt Mann, VP of Sales – reesmarx
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Peter Stratos, Principal, Tax Advisory Services – International – Kaufman Rossin
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SCHEDULE
12.00 pm – 12.15 pm: Registration & Lunch
12.15 pm – 1.45 pm: Program
1.45 pm – 2.00 pm: Networking
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Scott Bettridge - Cozen O'Connor |
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Karen Fonseca - TMF Group |
Peter Stratos - Kaufmann Rossin |
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ARE YOU INTERESTED IN CONNECTING AND MATCH-MAKING OPPORTUNITIES WITH LAW TECH PROFESSIONALS AND ARBITRATION LAWYERS FROM THE UK?
EACC Florida is pleased to partner with the UK Ministry of Justice which, together with the Department for International Trade and Arbitra International, are bringing UK legal professionals to Miami to connect with their local and global counterparts and explore opportunities for cross-border collaboration.
JOIN THEM FOR A NETWORKING RECEPTION ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 30, SPECIAL WORKSHOPS ON LAW TECH AND ARBITRATION AND B2B MATCH-MAKING OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1ST AND 3RD.
DATES:
- Reception: Sunday 30 October, 2022 – 4.00PM to 6.00PM
- Workshops & B2B match-making opportunities: November 1 to 2, 2022
LOCATION: Miami Beach
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Official EU Visit to Miami |
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EACC Florida looks forward to welcoming Brian Glynn, Managing Director for the Americas in the External Action Service (EEAS) and Ruth Bajada, Head of the U.S. and Canada Division in the EEAS at the European Commission in Brussels at the occasion of an official visit to Miami on October 6-7, 2022.
The primary purpose of this visit is to get a sense of the political outlook in the United States, and Florida in particular, in the run up to the midterm elections. Meetings are being set up with professionals and analysts from the business community, local authorities and Consular Corps to discuss how recent trends in the business community have impacted local politics - in particular recent business relocations from so called “blue” states in the U.S. like NY and CA to Florida.
For further information, contact Christina Sleszynska, Executive Director EACC Florida at [email protected].
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EU - State of the Union 2022. Read the full address by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen here or watch it here.
EU - Press statement by President von der Leyen on the 8th package of restrictive measures against Russia. Read more.
EU - EU trade defence measures protect over 460,000 European jobs. The Annual Report on the EU's trade defence activities of 2021 concludes that 462,000 EU jobs were directly protected by the EU's trade measures in 2021 in key EU manufacturing sectors such as aluminium, steel, ceramics and green technology. This shows that EU measures are effective in defending EU producers against unfair international trade practices. Read more.
EU - Commission Proposes New liability rules on products and AI. The proposed rules intend to adapt liability rules to the digital age, circular economy and the impact of global value chains. One will modernise the existing rules on the strict liability of manufacturers for defective products. The other proposes a targeted harmonization of national liability rules for AI, making it easier for victims of AI-related damage to get compensation. Both will have an extra-territorial impact. Read more.
EU - Innovation Scoreboard 2022. Innovation performance in 2022 has improved for 19 Member States, and declined for eight. Compared to the EU average, global competitors such as Australia, Canada, Republic of Korea, and the United States continue having a performance advantage over the EU. Nevertheless, the EU has closed its performance gap with these nations and has surpassed Japan since 2021. In the EU, Sweden continues to be the best performer in the EU. Other Innovation Leaders are Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Finland. Read more.
EU investment screening and export control rules effectively safeguard EU security. Foreign investment screening and export controls play a critical role in safeguarding European security and public order. This is the result of two reports adopted by the European Commission: the report on the screening of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), and the report on the Export Controls Regulation. Read more.
EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) turns 5 - The agreement has helped boost EU trade with Canada and has provided the EU with a solid, trusted source of supply for key resources such as energy and raw materials. Read more.
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Biden Administration Expands CFIUS National Security Factors. The EO connects the work carried out by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee) to the Administration’s national security aims beyond the traditional defense industrial base as a means to to improve the competitiveness of U.S. technologies and greatly reduce U.S. reliance on foreign supply chains. Foreign parties and U.S. businesses considering mergers, acquisitions, or investments in any of the sectors identified in the EO should carefully consider the need to seek CFIUS pre-clearance as part of any proposed transaction. Read more.
Florida Governor Issues Executive Order to Strengthen State Cybersecurity Against Foreign Adversaries. The E.O. prohibits state and local government entities from procuring technology products and services from companies owned, controlled, or domiciled in foreign countries of concern - which include the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Cuba, the Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro, or the Syrian Arab Republic. Read more.
US/Digital: EU opens new Office in San Francisco to reinforce its Digital Diplomacy. The office will reinforce the EU’s cooperation with the United States on digital diplomacy and strengthen the EU’s capacity to reach out to key public and private stakeholders, including policy makers, the business community, and civil society in the digital technology sector. Read more.
IMF - Regulating Crypto. The spectacular, if volatile, growth in the market capitalization of crypto assets and their creep into the regulated financial system have led to increased efforts to regulate them. So too has the expansion of crypto’s many different products and offerings and the evolving innovations that have facilitated issuance and transactions. The failures of crypto issuers, exchanges, and hedge funds—as well as a recent slide in crypto valuations—have added impetus to the push to regulate. Read more.
EU-LatAm - Priorities for climate neutrality and resilience in LAC. Recently, over 120 delegates participated in an Expert Workshop on Priorities for Climate Neutrality and Resilience, as part of the EU-funded project “Enhancing Green Transition in LAC”. Representatives from LAC and OECD countries as well as international organisations discussed climate change mitigation, adaptation and finance priorities for the region. Read more.
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EACC Florida
MEMBER and PARTNER INSIGHTS
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Update on USCIS Expansion of Premium Processing. USCIS announced that it will be implementing the next phase of the premium processing expansion for certain petitioners who have a pending Form I-140 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker under the first-preference and second-preference employment-based categories. Read more.
Compliments Cozen O'Connor
EU to Make Changes to Its Sustainability Reporting Rules and Impose New Obligations on Non-European Companies. EU law requires certain large companies to disclose non-financial information on the way they operate and manage social and environmental challenges. Following a review of the (Non-Financial Reporting Directive, “NFRD”), the European Commission proposed a new corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD) that would replace the NFRD and amend the current reporting rules. The new reporting regime also would apply to non-European companies that generate a net turnover of at least EUR 150 million in the EU and have at least one subsidiary or branch in the EU. Read more.
Compliment Greenberg Traurig
Why the U.S. economy is not in a recession, and how to know when it is. The economy is not in a recession, RSM US Chief Economist Joe Brusuelas writes, but there is a 45% probability that one will arrive in the next 12 months. He offers ways to identify when a recession hits. Read more.
Compliments RSMUS
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EACC FLORIDA
YOUNG VOICES FROM THE FUTURE
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Each month, the EACC Florida Newsletter features a young person - a student, an artist, an entrepreneur - whose identity, vision, project or dreams illustrate the vibrancy of Florida's transatlantic community. If you would like to suggest someone, please contact us HERE. And if you missed one of our Young Voices from the Future, you can find them HERE.
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Arquímedes Rivero – Spanish American Baritone with a Diplomat’s Dream
“Life is granted to us. And we never know when it will be taken from us so take full advantage of what it offers.”
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Arquímedes turned 18 in August 2022. He was born in Miami, grew up in Doral, and has a sister who is 7 years older who he is particularly close to. His father was born in Caracas (Venezuela) and is of Cuban descent. His mother is from the Canary Islands in Spain. Arquímedes has dual U.S. and Spanish citizenship, is perfectly bilingual, and is learning Italian and Portuguese. As a child, he regularly traveled to Venezuela and the Canary Islands to visit with relatives but has not returned to Venezuela since 2012. He visited Madrid and Barcelona for the first time in the summer of 2022.
Arquímedes takes after his grandfather, also named Arquímedes, who passed away in 2021 and was known as the “tsar of the Venezuelan soap operas”. Young Arquímedes loves the arts, music, dance and the theater. He likes to sing opera (he is a baritone) and to tell stories. He graduated Cum Laude from the Doral Performing and Entertainment Academy in June 2022 where he studied theater.
During the Pandemic, Arquímedes became involved in several organizations to encourage young voter registrations and also worked on the Biden Campaign. His true passion, however, lies in history, the relations between countries, how they interconnect, and he is particularly interested in how the E.U. came about. He is currently a Freshman at the Miami Dade Honors College studying International Relations and Economics and hopes to transfer to the University of Cambridge in the UK, Georgetown University, or the University of Pennsylvania at the end of his Sophomore Year.
Unsurprisingly, Arquímedes hopes to become a Diplomat.
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EACC is where the Action is, join us & be part of it!
The Month of September at the EACC Network included:
- EACC Carolinas: Global Workforce Development ½ Day Program, with DanEllzey of SCDEWinfo
- EACC Carolinas: Global Mobility Panel Discussion with OgletreeDeakins
- EACC Cincinatti: Stammtisch
- EACC Cincinatti: Bengals vs. Miami Dolphins
- EACC Florida: Hurricane Ian ...
- EACC Florida: Webinar on EU's New Tech Regulation - DSA and DMA - and impact on transatlantic business with Peter Fatelnig, Delegation of the EU in Washington DC
- EACC France: Member Tour of the French Senate
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EACC France: meeting with Antoine Lefevre, Member of the Senate of France (#UMP);
- EACC Netherlands: Meeting with Olivier Guersant - Director-General of the Directorate General for Competition, European Commission;
- EACC Netherlands: Meeting with Joao Valede Almeida, former EU Ambassador to the UN, the US and to Britain
- EACCNY: meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo
- EACCNY: DG EcFin Briefing on Economic Effects of the War in Ukraine (w/Annika Eriksgård, Director for International Economic Relations & Global Governance, and Moreno Bertoldi, Acting Head of Unit, DG ECFIN – European Commission)
- EACC Texas: AeroTechTalks@CAE
- EACC Texas: signing condolence book for Queen Elizabeth II.
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TRAVELLING?
Meet the EACC Network
Our Members are Part of Something Bigger
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Together with its sister chapters, EACC Florida is part of a growing and highly dynamic transatlantic network reaching over 10,000 executives in the US and across Europe. With over 750 members, the EACC is a valuable resource for any size business. If you would like to get involved, let us know.
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EACC Florida President's Circle |
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