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Long-awaited new UAE companies law issued by Sheikh Khalifa, boon for markets
April 3rd, 2015
The long-awaited new companies law will be a boon to IPO activity in the UAE and boost corporate governance, lawyers have said. The Commercial Companies Law No 02 for the year 2015 was issued by Sheikh Khalifa, President of ...
IBM hire advisers to deal with restless investors – sources
April 3rd, 2015
Some top shareholders of IBM, disappointed by 11 straight quarters of falling revenues, are seeking help from activist investors to shake up the company, but have been turned down by both Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square and Jeffrey Ubben’s ValueAct, ...
Antitrust and Other Inquiries in Europe Target U.S. Tech Giants
April 3rd, 2015
It is not a good week to be a giant American tech company in Europe. The European antitrust investigation into Google appears to be heating up. More European countries are looking into Facebook’s privacy settings. And Apple, which already is ...
Samaras Says He’d Join Alliance to Keep Greece in Euro
April 2nd, 2015
As Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras struggles to secure a financial bailout to stay in the euro, his chief rival said he’s open to offering a political rescue. Opposition leader Antonis Samaras, who was ousted by Tsipras in January ...
OECD launches tax avoidance mandatory disclosure plan
April 2nd, 2015
OECD publishes consultation on the mandatory disclosure of tax avoidance structures in multinational companies as part of BEPS work As part of its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, the OECD has launched a public consultation on Action 12 ...
Banks Are Poised to Profit From Forex Tumult
April 2nd, 2015
Swiss central bank’s surprise January move led to volatility that can help Wall Street The big currency swings of the past three months have whipsawed many investors. Wall Street may end up loving the action. As U.S. banks closed ...
Greece PM says sanctions against Russia ‘a road to nowhere’
March 31st, 2015
The Greek premier stressed that the economic war is a “dead-end policy” Greece does not back the West’s sanctions against Russia as this is a “road to nowhere,” the country’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in an exclusive interview ...
Baker & McKenzie is a winner at the Legal Community Finance & Tax Awards
March 31st, 2015
Baker & McKenzie was awarded as “Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year” at the Legal Community Finance & Tax Awards which took place in Milan on March 24, 2015. The award was assigned by an external jury made up ...
Greek government proposes measures worth 3.7 bln
March 31st, 2015
Revenues boost from monitoring deposits abroad and from sell-offs such as Piraeus port, regional airports The government’s list of reforms submitted to the country’s creditors provides for revenues of 3.7 billion euros this year, according to sources. The measures ...
IBM says to invest $3 billion in ‘Internet of Things’ unit
March 31st, 2015
International Business Machines Corp said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion over the next four years in a new ‘Internet of Things’ unit, aiming to sell its expertise in gathering and making sense of the surge in real-time ...