Welcome to “Lowenstein Africa Presents: Venture Voices”
Legal Challenges Part 1 – Setting Up Your Startup for Success
In the final episode in of this three-part series, the hosts discuss good corporate housekeeping for startups in Africa, particularly the concepts of optics and risk. How well a company keeps its books and records sends a...more
In Part Two of their discussion of the legal challenges facing startups in the African VC system, Rossie E. Turman III, Deangeor Chin, Raquel Smith, and Tolulope "Tolu" Adetayo address the topic of possible pitfalls in the...more
Lowenstein Sandler is proud to launch its latest podcast: “LS Africa Presents: Venture Voices,” hosted by Rossie E. Turman III, Deangeor Chin, Raquel Smith, and Tolulope "Tolu" Adetayo. The podcast will explore the stories...more
Today on “Lowenstein Africa Presents: Venture Voices,” Rossie E. Turman III, Deangeor Chin, Raquel Smith, and Tolulope "Tolu" Adetayo present the first in a three-episode series on legal challenges in the startup space in...more
On Sept. 21, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen co-hosted the Inaugural U.S. Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) Investor Forum. President Joe Biden formally...more
In the evening hours of March 9, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill that would fund the U.S. government through the rest of the fiscal year and provide $13.6 billion to respond to Russia’s...more
Harmonizing business laws, a revised foreign exchange regulation and introducing a new currency. Currency is a hot topic in West and Central Africa, in both the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (EMCCA, or...more
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has governments across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America and the United States quickly evaluating and issuing modified tax-related measures to help support business investments and...more
Gas-to-Power in Africa: An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges - WHAT IS GAS-TO-POWER? “Gas-to-power” is a phrase that encompasses a trend of projects which involve directly using gas in power generation. The...more
The Treachery of Images - Most people are familiar with the famous painting by René Magritte called "The Treachery of Images" (1928). The picture shows a pipe and below it the caption "This is not a pipe." In Africa,...more
In 1976, Congress passed legislation requiring the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce to collect information on investment flows between the United States and foreign countries. Subsequently...more
This insight aims to highlight new rules governing the Islamic finance sector in Indonesia and the enhanced role of the National Shariah Board, to set out the current state of the market including opportunities for foreign...more
The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Jaffe v. Samsung Elecs. Co., Ltd., recently held that a U.S. bankruptcy court is not required under principles of comity to blindly apply foreign law to assets located in the...more