Global Chamber® New York City Bridging Business Between Puerto Rico and New York

Global Chamber® New York City 

Bridging Business Between Puerto Rico and New York: Legal, Business and Tax Considerations for U.S. Expansion into Latin America

• Thursday, February 19th at 2pm PT / 3pm MT / 5pm ET / 10pm Accra + London / 11pm CET
• Friday, February 20th at 6am Singapore / 7am Seoul + Tokyo / 2:00am Sydney

Location: CBIZ 730 3rd Ave, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10017

Speakers:

Jaime F. Rivera Emmanuelli - Gaming Law Partner at Saiber LLC

Jaime Rivera Emmanuelli is an accomplished gaming law attorney with over 10 years’ experience within the public and private sector. Jaime guides gaming businesses and businesses within the gaming industry through various regulatory and compliance hurdles throughout the United States and Latin America.

Immediately prior to joining Saiber, Jaime served as the Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Gaming Commission where he led the oversight of all horse racing activity, land-based casinos, route machines, sports betting, e-sports, and fantasy contests. As Executive Director, Jaime planned, coordinated, and supervised all the agency’s administrative and operational activities and was responsible for the implementation of significant new public policy, including the Government of Puerto Rico Gaming Commission Act. In addition, while at the Commission, Jaime was instrumental in the launch of online sports betting in Puerto Rico. Previously, Jaime served as the Deputy Executive Director of the Commission, and as the Deputy Horse Racing Administrator, where he directed all operational and administrative activity.

At Saiber, Jaime advises casinos, gaming manufacturers, interactive online gaming operators, technology providers, and sportsbook operators in an array of corporate, regulatory and compliance matters. He helps guide his clients in the expanding United States and Latin American gaming markets. Jaime plays a key role in advising European and North American gaming operators in the entry of the Caribbean, Central American, and South American gaming markets. Jaime also provides non-gaming government legal and administrative consulting services.

In addition to his role with the Puerto Rico Gaming Commission, Jaime has held several other government positions throughout his career. Jaime acted as the Legal Director for the Puerto Rico Land Administration. In this role, Jaime led the agency which promotes the economic, social, and urban development in Puerto Rico, and oversaw all legal affairs impacting the office. Moreover, Jaime oversaw the legal affairs for the Office of the Inspector General for the Government of Puerto Rico.

Gurmeher Allagh - Director in the International Tax Practice at CBIZ

Gurmeher Allagh is a director in the International Tax practice at CBIZ. He has 15+ years of tax consulting and compliance experience in big 4 and national accounting firms. Gurmeher has served high net worth individual clients and companies ranging from privately held middle market businesses to fortune 500 global corporations in a variety of industries such as technology, consumer products, medical devices, professional services, and digital assets.

Gurmeher specializes in inbound/outbound tax consulting, cross border mergers and acquisitions, tax structuring, treaty planning, and international tax compliance. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is licensed to practice as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York.

Facilitator:

Susan Gitenstein Assadi - Executive Director at Global Chamber New York City & Chief Media Strategist at GAPR

Susan leads GAPR, a PR firm with an emphasis on expert and thought leadership campaigns. She is a highly respected national media strategist who helps her clients to be promoted to the national media, weaving in compelling stories that resonate with top media outlets. Her campaigns have enabled her clients to have features and recurring citations in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg.  As a result of her campaigns, her clients have been boosted into leaders of their respective fields. Susan has over four decades representing public and private companies in the financial services, corporate governance and the proxy industry, alternative energy, and those with an emphasis on responsible business practices such as ESG. Most recently she has been working with disruptors who are helping to build the domestic supply chain of rare earth materials.  Susan also has represented some leading non-profits. She also co-founded Safed House, a non-profit, that provides a welcoming place for refugees and recent immigrants to share their stories.

Her firm’s campaigns are fresh, creative, tech savvy, and innovative, a cocktail that engenders powerful results.

Prior to founding her own PR firm, Susan was the publicist for PBS MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.   She received a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from New York University, and obtained a Bachelor's Degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

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