The US Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs’ visa system is currently experiencing a global outage. The outage does not appear to be related to issues of cyber security, according to the Department of State. However, Acting Assistant Secretary Michele Bond has indicated that she does not expect the system to be back online until next week at the earliest. Continue reading
Author: Mike Burke
Making US Arbitration Work for Irish and NI Companies (Really!)
Foreign investors increasingly complain that US arbitration is morphing in to a process closer to full-blown litigation. I’ve always found it interesting that ‘full-blown’ is used to describe ‘all-in’ litigation and ‘all-in’ infectious disease. But I digress. The fact remains that many of the advantages of arbitration—speedier resolutions at a lower cost—are being lost to a variety of interim challenges, enforcement questions and other processes that defer prompt resolution of disputes. The good news for Irish and Northern Irish companies is that Delaware offers a way to make arbitration ‘work’ again. Continue reading
Selling to the US Government: Life Sciences Edition
A few weeks ago, I posted a primer on government contracts. Two of my colleagues, Tenley Carp and Jeff Jacobovitz have published a primer for non-US life sciences companies on selling to the US government. That primer is available here and is worth the read for Irish and NI companies.
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