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New pod­cast series ex­plor­ing the evolving chal­lenges and in­nov­a­tions of in­ter­na­tion­al ar­bit­ra­tion by the mem­bers of the CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Ar­bit­ra­tion Group

Re­lo­cat­ing tal­ent safely, smartly, and seam­lessly As an in­ter­na­tion­al busi­ness, you need your best people to be mo­bile. That can re­quire as­sign­ing ex­ec­ut­ives and em­ploy­ees to dif­fer­ent ter­rit­or­ies – of­ten at short no­tice.CMS Ex­pat Desk – part of the largest em­ploy­ment and tax teams in Europe – provides com­plete and co-or­din­ated ad­vice and sup­port on tax, pen­sions, so­cial se­cur­ity, pay and em­ploy­ment law for ex­pat­ri­ate em­ploy­ees. Glob­al sup­port – from one point Our ex­pat­ri­ate spe­cial­ists are net­worked across 43 coun­tries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Lat­in Amer­ica to give you multi-jur­is­dic­tion­al sup­port – all ser­viced from a single point of con­tact.From the start to ter­min­a­tion of an as­sign­ment, we can help en­sure the op­tim­al leg­al, tax and re­mu­ner­a­tion ar­range­ments for both for the em­ploy­ee and for your busi­ness.With our sup­port, you are free to de­ploy your people wherever they need to be – swiftly and seam­lessly.Our team can:Draw up em­ploy­ee con­tracts cov­er­ing all leg­al as­pects of an as­sign­ment in any giv­en jur­is­dic­tion­Keep you up to speed on the tax and so­cial se­cur­ity re­gimes in each ter­rit­ory – and help re­lo­cated staff nav­ig­ate any po­ten­tial pit­falls in the sys­tem.Ad­vise on op­tim­ising the be­ne­fits of an em­ploy­ee’s ex­pat­ri­ate status – e.g. in terms of tax, re­mu­ner­a­tion and pen­sion ar­range­ment­sHelp your busi­ness man­age multi-jur­is­dic­tion­al payroll and tax ob­lig­a­tion­sAd­vise on spon­sor­ing pen­sion schemes in mul­tiple coun­tries, in­ter­na­tion­al trans­fer of be­ne­fits and en­abling em­ploy­ees to con­tin­ue scheme par­ti­cip­a­tion.Watch the videos for in­form­a­tion about re­gimes in dif­fer­ent coun­tries. For more de­tails about of­fers in in­di­vidu­al jur­is­dic­tions and leg­al as­sist­ance feel free to reach out to your usu­al CMS con­tact or send an email to em­ploy­[email protected]­al.com.

In­tro­duc­tion The phar­ma­ceut­ic­al or, more gen­er­ally, the health­care mar­ket is of vi­tal so­cioeco­nom­ic im­port­ance. Its func­tion­ing dir­ectly af­fects pa­tient health. As a res­ult, the phar­ma­ceut­ic­al mar­ket...

Our lead­ing sports prac­tice is sup­por­ted by our wider full-ser­vice of­fer­ing, and brings to­geth­er spe­cial­ists in rights ex­ploit­a­tion, spon­sor­ship, mer­chand­ising, dis­pute res­ol­u­tion and com­pet­i­tion law, reg­u­la­tion, real es­tate and repu­ta­tion man­age­ment to tackle some of the in­dustry’s most com­plex is­sues.Our en­thu­si­ast­ic sports law ex­perts have ac­ted on a vari­ety of land­mark deals and sup­port our cli­ents on com­plex and di­verse is­sues.View the bro­chure to learn more about how we can sup­port you.

China’s Belt and Road Ini­ti­at­ive (BRI) is where some of the key is­sues of our time in­ter­sect, in­clud­ing glob­al­isa­tion, sus­tain­ab­il­ity, the mod­ern­isa­tion of in­fra­struc­ture, new tech­no­logy and health­care. But it also marks the con­ver­gence of some ser­i­ous con­cerns, such as en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion, in­ter­na­tion­al debt, the Cov­id-19 pan­dem­ic and, in­creas­ingly, geo­pol­it­ic­al ten­sions between the US and China.Our new re­port shows that sen­ti­ment to­wards BRI in Lat­in Amer­ica re­mains re­l­at­ively pos­it­ive, des­pite such head­winds. From the in­volve­ment of Chinese busi­nesses in Panama Canal ports to Chinese in­vest­ments in lith­i­um min­ing and re­new­able en­ergy, trans-Pa­cific con­nec­tions between Lat­in Amer­ic­an eco­nom­ies and China’s Asi­an power­house con­tin­ue to grow.China’s am­bi­tions to ad­vance Belt and Road co­oper­a­tion high­light the po­ten­tial for BRI to help na­tions in Lat­in Amer­ica bridge the re­gion’s massive in­fra­struc­ture gap and re­cov­er from the ter­rible dam­age of the pan­dem­ic, as well as of­fer­ing many new op­por­tun­it­ies for re­gion­al busi­nesses and in­vestors. 

China’s Belt and Road Ini­ti­at­ive (BRI) con­tin­ues to evolve and of­fer op­por­tun­it­ies for na­tions, com­munit­ies and busi­nesses. But it is not without con­tro­versy in areas such as en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion and in­ter­na­tion­al debt.As a lead­er in many Belt and Road sec­tors, CMS has polled and in­ter­viewed over 500 BRI par­ti­cipants around the world, about their cur­rent think­ing on BRI and the pro­spects they see for it. This series of re­ports ana­lyses sen­ti­ment around the world, con­siders what BRI means for each re­gion, shines a spot­light on dif­fer­ent na­tions and high­lights leg­al con­sid­er­a­tions. Our find­ings from China, Asia Pa­cific, Cent­ral and East­ern Europe, Middle East, North Africa re­gion and Lat­in Amer­ica are avail­able now.Re­port on Africa will be pub­lished in the com­ing months.me­di­um­me­di­um­me­di­um­me­di­um­me­di­um­me­di­um

COV­ID-19 pan­dem­ic leads to change in in­vestor in­terest in the in­di­vidu­al as­set classes – lo­gist­ics and res­id­en­tial prop­er­ties es­pe­cially pop­ularIn­creased de­sire for se­cur­ity on part of sellers: re­cord...

Out of the tur­bu­lence of 2020, one sec­tor is emer­ging re­ju­ven­ated – tele­coms. The new mega deals, es­pe­cially when it comes to di­git­al in­fra­struc­ture, at­test to it. This is the ac­cel­er­a­tion of a trend, rather than a new phe­nomen­on. If any­thing, lock­downs im­posed to handle the COV­ID-19 pan­dem­ic have only served to ac­cel­er­ate de­mand.

It is no longer news to re­port that the world of work is likely to be changed forever as a res­ult of the pan­dem­ic. From the ini­tial shock and ad­just­ment to a new work­ing mode, at­ten­tion is now turn­ing to the ex­tent and nature of that change, and the con­sequences for work­place re­lated policy and leg­al frame­works of a per­man­ent change to work­ing con­di­tions and ex­pect­a­tions.