Monthly News
Jobs Act: growing protections and doubts over constitutionality.
- Monday 09 March 2015
- Contratti, Diritto del Lavoro
- Europa, Italia
The rickety system of checks and balances that has influenced the Italian industrial relations, since the entry into force of the Workers’ Statute on 1970, is definitely gone with the approval of the new implementing decrees of the Jobs Act. The reform covers a number of aspects such as the...
INVESTMENT AGREEMENT: USER GUIDE
- Friday 28 November 2014
- Business Development, Contratti, Diritto Societario, Internazionalizzazione, Private equity, Start up, Venture capital
- Europa, Italia, OpenDoors, Startup, UK, USA
One of the main problems faced by startups is certainly the lack of money to meet the huge costs necessary to the development of the business. The need for adequate funding is even more urgent considering that a startup generally aims to exploit economically inventions and scientific-technical ...
The spectre of usury hovering on bank contracts
- Thursday 13 March 2014
- Contenzioso arbitrale e giudiziario, Contratti, Diritto Commerciale e Contratti, Diritto dei Mercati Finanziari
- Italia
In recent years, discussions about usury in bank contracts have been more and more frequent; however, it is still not clear when an interest rate can be really qualified an usurious one and which are the remedies granted by the Italian legal system in order to solve this situation. This issue...
Bitcoin: a brief overview on the current standing
- Friday 14 February 2014
- Business Development, Contratti, Diritto dei Mercati Finanziari, Tax & Accounting
The bitcoin reality Bitcoin is an electronic currency created in 2009 by an unidentified person, known under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, developing an idea presented to the web by the same author at the end of 2008. Bitcoin can be defined as a virtual crypto-currency. Cryptic, because...
Pudong Free Trade Zone (Shanghai)
- Wednesday 15 January 2014
- Business Development, Contratti, Diritto Commerciale e Contratti, Internazionalizzazione, Private equity, Tax & Accounting, Venture capital
- Asia
China, one of the few countries who not experienced any kind of economic stop, vaunting a growth rate per annum equal to approximately 7.8% in 2013. China is a State with a solid economy and great economic potentialities but, at the same time, dangers and risks are not missing because of an ...