Successfully negotiated free trade agreements with Peru, Colombia, Panama, and South Korea currently await approval by the U.S. Congress and the legislatures in those countries. These agreements provide real benefits to U.S. companies and OCBC is strongly advocating for their approval.

Ninety-five percent of the world’s consumers live outside the U.S.  Globalization has rapidly changed both access to foreign markets and the demand for new goods, and especially, services.  A recent visit to OCBC by Bijan Kian, a member of the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, concerned the emerging importance of service exports, and OCBC member UPS recently illustrated this point with an agreement to dramatically expand its operation in South Korea -- America's 7th largest trading partner.   

Wayne R. Gross (pictured top right) is a litigation partner at Snell & Wilmer, where he focuses on trial practice, corporate crisis management, internal investigations, complex civil litigation, intellectual property litigation, and white collar criminal defense. The Orange County Register recently described Mr. Gross as a "dream team" defense lawyer.

Before joining Snell & Wilmer, Mr. Gross served as Chief of the Southern Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California and prosecuted cases of national and international significance.  Read Gross' full bio here. 

Porter Novelli has issued a thought-provoking white paper about a new generation of workers entering the workforce – The Millennianls.  As part of Porter Novelli’s highly regarded Intelligent Dialogue series, the agency examines challenges and opportunities presented by working with these new employees, defined as young adults born in the 1980’s, and aims to provoke a meaningful discussion about the effects they are having on the workplace.

Steering clear of easy generalizations, this report provides a nuanced portrait of a generation that is both savvy and ambitious. To download the complete “Millennials” report, please click here.

The American Council of Engineering Companies of California (ACEC, formerly CELSOC) has released a report examining the use of public-private partnerships in delivering new infrastructure projects and upgrading California's rapidly aging  infrastructure. 

"Public-Private Partnerships: Creating Tomorrow's Infrastructure" provides an overview of California's current infrastructure crisis and explores how other countries such as Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are embracing public-private partnerships as an effective method for renewing, creating or maintaining infrastructure vital to their continued economic development.