August 2022

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Annual Compliance Conference | 6 September – 6 October 2022

August 31, 2022 by Paul E. Amberg, Marilyn Batonga, Darryl Bernstein, Brian Cacic, Kate Corby, Fiona Carlin, Stephen Crosswell, Jannan Crozier, Borys Y. Dackiw, Reagan R. Demas, Meredith A. DeMent, Henry Garfield, Yindi Gesinde, Terence Gilroy, Tristan J. Grimmer, Kurt Haegeman, Joanna (Jo) Hewitt, Fung (Simon) Hui, Rod Hunter, Teisha C. Johnson, Olof König, John Leadley, Sylwia A. Lis, Montserrat Llopart, Nicole Looks, Joanna Ludlam, Sunny Mann, Geoff Martin, Jeffrey (Jeff) D. Martino, Erin McCloskey Maus, David McCredie, Samantha J. Mobley, Lerisha Naidu, María Carolina Pardo Cuéllar, Anne Petterd, Philippe Reich, Jennifer F. Revis, Francesca Richmond, James Robinson, Ana Royuela, Doug B. Sanders, Dr. Anika Schürmann LL.M., Ben Smith, Katharina Spenner LL.M., Alison J. Stafford Powell, Graham J. Stuart, Virusha Subban, Eric Thianpiriya, Anahita Thoms LL.M., Mini vandePol, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., Julia M. Wilson, Beatriz Pessoa de Araujo, Lionel Van Reet, Reggie Mezu, Ario Dehghani, Serge Pannatier, Hanna Shtepa, Elizabeth Denham, Miriam Allena, Ross Evans, Mara Ioana Ghiorghies, Julian Godfray, Adeel Haque, Gavin Hayes, Eunkyung Kim Shin, Rachel MacLeod, Jessica Mutton, Karoline (Karolina) Phillips, Joanne Redmond, Andrew Rose and Paulo Casagrande 1 Min Read

The Annual Compliance Conference begins next week and attracts over 6,000 in-house senior legal and compliance professionals from across the world. This leading compliance conference will be held across five weeks from 6 September – 6 October 2022 We will be virtually delivering our cutting-edge insights and guidance on key global compliance, investigations and ethics issues. Our global experts will provide practical insights and analysis on significant developments:• anti-bribery• corruption and economic crime• customs and FTAs• ESG, supply chain…

In Tax

United States: Giving tax credits where credit is due – Small chips causing big problems

August 30, 2022 by Alexandra Minkovich 11 Mins Read

In brief The semiconductor shortage is increasingly obvious, from the automotive industry to consumer electronics. In fact, the chip shortage has even been referenced as a potential matter of national security. H.R. 4346, better known as the CHIPs and Science Act (“Act”), was signed into law by President Biden on 9 August, 2022 and seeks to promote semiconductor supply chain resilience by establishing incentives to increase the production of microchips and related devices, including through…

In Trade

Update to UKCA marking transition

August 3, 2022 by Rachel MacLeod, Graham J. Stuart, Kate Corby and Joanne Redmond 1 Min Read

Baker McKenzie’s Import and Trade Remedies Blog published “Update to UKCA marking transition,” covering the UK’s proposed measures to ease the transition to the new UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) regime that will replace the EU’s CE marking regime for the Great Britain market (England, Scotland and Wales) in respect of most types of CE marked products from the start of 2023. The additional flexibility that these measures provide will no doubt be welcomed by many…