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Apple Goes to the Supreme Court
February 25th, 2016
The Justices should hear the e-book antitrust case. The Supreme Court may consider as early as Friday whether to take an appeal of one of the great antitrust abuses of recent decades, and the economic import is far larger ...
Last Wave on Libor: CFTC Likely to Charge Multiple Banks for Rate Rigging
February 16th, 2016
Citigroup, HSBC are among firms targeted by regulators, according to people close to the probe American banks have so far escaped the billions of dollars in fines that have been levied by U.S. and British regulators leading a global ...
Cross-border business with US clients: FINMA announces conclusion of proceedings against Bank Julius Baer
February 10th, 2016
Cross-border business with US clients: FINMA announces conclusion of proceedings against Bank Julius Baer Between 2010 and 2011, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA conducted enforcement proceedings against Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. in relation to the ...
EU Commission and United States agree on new framework for transatlantic data flows: EU-US Privacy Shield
February 3rd, 2016
The College of Commissioners approved the political agreement reached and has mandated Vice-President Ansip and Commissioner Jourová to prepare the necessary steps to put in place the new arrangement. This new framework will protect the fundamental rights of Europeans ...
Which country is the World’s Favorite New Tax Haven?
January 28th, 2016
The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States Moving money out of the usual offshore secrecy havens and into the U.S. is a brisk new business. Last September, at a law firm overlooking San Francisco Bay, Andrew ...
Goldman Sachs:2015 Annual and Fourth Quarter Results
January 21st, 2016
Bank’s trading revenue drops 9%, while investment banking is a bright spot Goldman Sachs Group Inc. predicted that this month’s stock-market swoon wouldn’t derail a merger boom that proved one of the bright spots in a lackluster quarter for the Wall ...
United States Files Complaint Against Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche for Alleged Clean Air Act Violations
January 5th, 2016
The Department of Justice, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), today filed a civil complaint in federal court in Detroit, Michigan, against Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Volkswagen Group of America Inc., Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Operations ...
VW Scandal: Top law firms competing for lead assignment in expected multibillion-dollar case
December 3rd, 2015
Top law firms competing for lead assignment in expected multibillion-dollar case Lawyers from across the country will descend Thursday on a courthouse in New Orleans to jockey for a potentially lucrative assignment: a role in the massive consumer-fraud litigation facing Volkswagen AG over ...
Deutsche Bank’s Swiss Unit to Pay $31 Million in Tax Case
November 27th, 2015
U.S. has reached non-prosecution deals with 57 Swiss banks Firms have paid a total of $570.4 million in tax accords Deutsche Bank AG’s Swiss unit agreed to pay $31 million to receive a non-prosecution agreement in a U.S. probe ...
CFTC charges IB Capital FX and agents for Forex Trading case
November 17th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement Complaint charging Defendants IB Capital FX, LLC (a/k/a IB Capital FX LLP) d/b/a IB Capital (IB Capital), Michel Geurkink, and Emad Echadi, individually and as the agents of IB Capital, with soliciting and accepting ...
