Expanding operations into new territories around the world has traditionally offered important commercial opportunities for multinational corporations and SMEs alike. Whereas standardization, harmonization of practices and the impact of technology have supported and accelerated the trend toward globalization, the COVID-19 pandemic marked an abrupt halt, leading to a global recession, a severe disruption of global value-chains and a sharp decrease in foreign direct investments.<\/p>\n
While most governments have promptly acted in support their domestic economies, many are considering new rules affecting foreign investors.<\/p>\n
This program will be looking at how those trends have evolved notably in the US and Europe, what some of those new rules are and what specific changes to look out for in particular in areas such as governance and local vs. international complexity in financial transactions, accounting, taxation and human resources.<\/p>\n
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION<\/b><\/p>\n SPEAKERS<\/b><\/p>\n SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES<\/b><\/p>\n Jan Willem van Drimmelen<\/b><\/p>\n Jan Willem has 20 years of experience in senior commercial- and leadership roles in professional services businesses. Before joining TMF Group, Jan Willem was a co-founder at Create Capital, a private equity firm in the Netherlands. Prior to that, Jan Willem was responsible for Intertrust\u2019s global corporate client division for two years, after spending nearly five years in his role as Global Head of Sales during a period of unprecedented growth for the Intertrust Group. Prior to that, Jan Willem was Managing Director of Intertrust North America based in New York for six years. Before joining Intertrust in 2007, he worked at merchant bank Kempen & Co, as a tax attorney with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and as an intern at Loyens & Loeff and ABN AMRO Trust Company.\u00a0Jan Willem has lived and worked in Amsterdam, London, New York and Cura\u00e7ao.\u00a0Jan Willem graduated from Leiden University in 2003 where he obtained a Master\u2019s degree in International Taxation.<\/p>\n Edoardo Gambaro<\/b><\/p>\n Edoardo is a Partner at Greenberg Traurig in Milano. He focuses his practice on Italian and European antitrust law. He represents Italian and foreign companies in proceedings before the European Commission in the application of Articles 101, 102, and 108 of the TFEU (cartel, abuse of dominant position and state aid matters). He also advises on EU procedural law, assisting companies in appellate proceedings before the EU General Court and the EU Court of Justice. He represents companies before the Italian Antitrust Authority and on appeal before the Italian administrative Courts. Edoardo is experienced in the field of merger control, both at national and EU levels, and has advised various U.S. and European corporations on merger control filings. He has also dealt with other aspects of EU law, such as telecommunications law, pharmaceuticals law, freedom of establishment, and the free movement of services and capital, representing several companies before the Court of Justice in preliminary references submitted by Italian courts.<\/p>\n Mike Morroni<\/b><\/p>\n Mike is the Global Clients Leader and North America Head of Business Development at TMF Group. \u00a0Mike has been with TMF for 7 years living in a variety of locations including Miami, Hong Kong and Switzerland. \u00a0Prior to this Mike had 15+ years\u2019 experience working\u00a0in London and New York within services companies, including Control Risks Group, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Cantor Fitzgerald. Mike has an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona. He enjoys spending time with his family, travelling and has visited over 100 countries.<\/p>\n\n
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