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Accounting whistleblower turns down multi-million reward
August 22nd, 2016
A whistleblower whose information helped reveal false accounting at Deutsche Bank has turned down a huge financial reward from the Securities and Exchange Commission in protest of failure to punish wrong-doing executives at the bank. Eric Ben-Artzi, a former Deutsche risk ...
Goldman Sachs’s Fight to Avoid Paying Employees’ Legal Fees
August 9th, 2016
We know that paying for a lawyer can be an expensive proposition. The New York Times reported recently that a Turkish gold trader, Reza Zarrab, has hired a veritable who’s who of white-collar defense firms to defend him against charges of ...
Second referendum ‘perfectly possible’, say top EU law professors on Q&A Reddit thread
August 8th, 2016
University of Liverpool experts use social media to spread their wisdom There is “no obstacle” in law to the United Kingdom holding a second referendum on EU membership, according to a group of EU law experts from the University ...
The first Major Legal firm to make post-Brexit redundancies
August 8th, 2016
Simmons & Simmons is making redundancies in its London office as a result of the UK’s vote to leave the EU, the first major firm in the City known to have done so. A spokeswoman told RollOnFriday that the firm was ...
New global tax rules are ‘just a sticking plaster’
August 5th, 2016
New international rules to tackle global tax avoidance will not work properly until tax secrecy is swept away, a report released by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on responsible tax has found. The failure to introduce full transparency ...
Turkish goverment shut down the largest law firm in Turkey
August 3rd, 2016
On Friday, The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported that YukselKarkin — the largest law firm in Turkey, which was, until December 2014, associated with DLA Piper in the country — had been raided by “armed police,” with four of the firm’s partners ...
Nextlaw Labs turns to AI for new Brexit offering
August 1st, 2016
Dentons’ tech joint venture is developing a new tool to help lawyers assess the impact of Brexit on companies’ contracts. Nextlaw Labs has joined forces with London-based technology company RAVN to develop a new artificial intelligence tool that will ...
3 ex-bankers jailed over Ireland’s biggest accounting fraud
August 1st, 2016
Three former senior bankers were sent to prison Friday for their roles in concealing the loss of billions in deposits at the defunct Anglo Irish Bank, the biggest accounting fraud in Irish corporate history. Judge Martin Nolan told the ...
International law firm to launch in South Africa
July 29th, 2016
The firm has appointed two founding partners to launch the office. Rob Morson joins from Bowman Gilfillan where he was Head of Construction and is widely-regarded as a pre-eminent practitioner in the market as reflected in his Star Individual ...
UK property price slide creates wave of Chinese interest
July 25th, 2016
Interest among Chinese buyers in buying UK property has surged since Britain voted to leave the European Union last month, as the pound’s slide has created opportunities to buy at a discount, the property website juwai.com said on Monday. ...
