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One of the world’s leading solar panel manufacturers based in Baoding, China, Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) (“Yingli” or the “Company”) announced on April 27th 2018 that one of its major suppliers has filed a request for arbitration for its claim against the Company at the London Court of International Arbitration (“LCIA”).
By: Katie Burghardt KramerThe original article is published in the ABA Litigation Journal, Volume 44, Number 4, Summer 2018 Reply briefs are tricky—you can’t say anything entirely new, but you need to say something new. How do you find the right balance? How do you maximize the opportunity to have the last word? I offer a few brief tips. Keep
By: Alica Ma; Li (Mary) Ma On November 19, 2018, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released its advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to control the export of emerging technologies. This ANPRM is extremely important for many industries and companies. Technologies that can currently be shared with basically all countries may
Qualified Opportunity Zones:Hot Tubs and Other Hot Topicsby Libin Zhang The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (P.L. 115-97) created a new concept of qualified opportunity zones (QOZs), in which some investments receive tax deferral and tax exemption benefits. Although all the QOZs have now been identified, there is substantial uncertainty about investments allowed within the
Qualified Opportunity Zones and Select Partnership Issues by Libin Zhang, Esq. The 2017 tax act (Pub. L. No. 115-97) created the new concept of qualified opportunity zones (QOZ), which are low-income census tracts in which certain investments are provided tax benefits. On October 19, 2018, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service released the
DECEMBER 9, 2018 BY BRUCE ZAGARIS On December 1, 2018, Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s global chief financial officer, on a U.S. extradition warrant to answer fraud charges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.[1]During a bail hearing on December 7, 2018, John Gibb-Carsley, a lawyer with the Canadian federal