2018 SUMMIT ON COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN CHINA

Columbia Law School invites applications to its U.S. Business Law Academy for foreign-trained law students and practitioners. The program is an engaging educational and cultural experience with select topics in U.S. legal institutions and business law taught by preeminent scholars from Columbia and other world renowned institutions.

The Beijing Arbitration Commission/Beijing International Arbitration Center (BAC/BIAC), the Arbitration Institute of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the Arbitration Institute of the Finland Chamber of Commerce (FAI), the Danish Institute of Arbitration (DIA), the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Institute of the Oslo Chamber of Commerce (OCC) are pleased to invite you to the 2018 Nordic Summit on Commercial Dispute Resolution in China.

The Beijing Arbitration Commission/Beijing International Arbitration Center (BAC/BIAC), the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), the School of International Arbitration (SIA), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London (IALS) are pleased to invite you to the 2018 London Summit on Commercial Dispute Resolution in China.

The Beijing Arbitration Commission/Beijing International Arbitration Center (BAC/BIAC), the Arbitration Institute of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the Arbitration Institute of the Finland Chamber of Commerce (FAI), the Danish Institute of Arbitration (DIA).

The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) has strengthened its leadership by appointing Tokunboh Ishmael as Chair of the Board of Directors and Ziad Oueslati as Vice Chair.

The MOF announced a ruling on March 28, 2018, that over-distributed imputation credit to shareholders of the deductible tax amount for the profit-seeking enterprise shall be handled as follows and that the ruling of Tai-Chai-Shuie No.10404030450 of the MOF is also abolished.

Condo hotels are now a reality also in Italy. A condo hotel is a hotel in which some of the rooms have been transformed into small apartments equipped with services and a kitchen and sold to private buyers.

Tax reform is the topic on everyone’s lips in Uzbekistan, with rumours that even Alisher Usmanov’s consultants have been invited to develop the concept. According to the very long tax reform concept, the main objective is to simplify tax administration, lower VAT, remove unclear laws and regulations, abolish certain mandatory payments and generally reduce the tax burden.

Kazakhstan’s largest commercial savings bank, Halyk Bank, is acquiring all subsidiaries of Qazkom, a large commercial bank that has recently received significant state support.