Year: 2016

What Irish and Northern Irish Companies Need to Know Now: Doing Business in the U.S.–Free Webinar

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Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 3:00 pm Dublin/Belfast.

The attorneys of Arnall Golden Gregory’s International Business Practice invite you to attend a complimentary, 60-minute webinar “What Irish and Northern Irish Companies Need to Know Now: Doing Business in the U.S.” The webinar will be held Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 10:00 am EDT (3:00 pm Dublin/Belfast). The United States is an attractive, and expanding, market for Irish and Northern Irish goods and services. Despite suggestions to the contrary, the U.S. can be an easy market for business expansion—with a little bit of planning. This webinar will examine key legal issues for doing business in the U.S., including:

  • Protecting the Irish and Northern Irish parent company, its investors, and capital from U.S. legal risk;
  • Avoiding branch profits tax issues;
  • Reducing payment risk by ensuring prompt payment from customers, and other U.S. contract essentials;
  • The product liability risks that may attach…

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What Irish and Northern Irish Companies Need to Know Now: Doing Business in the U.S.–Free Webinar

Mike Burke Smart Exporting , , , , , , , , ,

Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 3:00 pm Dublin/Belfast.

The attorneys of Arnall Golden Gregory’s International Business Practice invite you to attend a complimentary, 60-minute webinar “What Irish and Northern Irish Companies Need to Know Now: Doing Business in the U.S.” The webinar will be held Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 10:00 am EDT (3:00 pm Dublin/Belfast). The United States is an attractive, and expanding, market for Irish and Northern Irish goods and services. Despite suggestions to the contrary, the U.S. can be an easy market for business expansion—with a little bit of planning. This webinar will examine key legal issues for doing business in the U.S., including:

  • Protecting the Irish and Northern Irish parent company, its investors, and capital from U.S. legal risk;
  • Avoiding branch profits tax issues;
  • Reducing payment risk by ensuring prompt payment from customers, and other U.S. contract essentials;
  • The product liability risks that may attach to selling in the U.S. market;
  • Navigating which jurisdiction’s laws govern the sale of Irish and Northern Irish-origin products in the U.S. market; and
  • Intellectual property protections.

Register now to hear AGG Partner Michael E. Burke discuss a business sensible, proactive approach to doing business in the U.S. while minimizing risk to the Irish and Northern Irish parent company and its investors.

Mike has an AV Preeminent™ Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and has been named a Washington, DC Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters since 21015. He also is a former chair of the American Bar Association Section of International Law, was named in 2014 by Business & Finance Magazine/IrelandInc.as one of the 100 Global Irish Business Leaders, and has been named three times to the Irish Legal 100.

Free Resources for Irish and Northern Irish Companies Forming US Affiliates

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I’ve written several times (Minimizing ‘Alter Ego’ Risk for Irish and Northern Irish Parents of US Affiliates; and Effectively Using a Lightning Rod) about the need for Irish and Northern Irish companies to form a formal US affiliate as part of their US expansion strategy. I know that several US law firms have free online forms libraries/generators for US startups. That got me thinking—where are the free online forms/resources for Irish and Northern Irish companies looking to expand to the US? Well, it’s right here.

Let’s assume that the Irish/Northern Irish company will form a Delaware corporation (which is what I’d recommend in many cases). For a proper/complete formation, the Irish/NI company would need to draft (i) articles of incorporation (to be filed with the Delaware Secretary of State’s Corporations Division); (ii) bylaws; (iii) an initial action/consent of the incorporator; (iv) initial consent of the Board of Directors; and (v) SS-4/application for an employer identification number (to be completed and filed with the IRS). The filing with Delaware requires payment of a filing fee—and a filer can pay more for expedited service and other items; also, since the Irish/NI company is, well, in Ireland/NI, they will have to engage a registered agent (the registered agent serves as a point of contact between the company and the State of Delaware). And, filing can be made directly by the Irish/NI company—no real need to incur third-party filing or convenience fees. Continue reading →