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Samsung to Fight Apple Smartphone Trial Verdict: Lawyer
May 6th, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co. will challenge a jury’s $120 million award to Apple Inc. in a patent-infringement verdict that was “unsupported by evidence,” a lawyer for the Suwon, South Korea-based company said. Samsung will ask the trial judge and an ...
USD/CHF retains bearish outlook
May 5th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook At first the new up-trend support line triggered a rally in USD/CHF, forcing it to surge all the way to 0.8832/31. But subsequently the currency pair did not manage to withstand the selling pressure and was broken. ...
Russia Knows Europe Sanctions Ineffective With Tax Havens
May 5th, 2014
Two years ago, a Dutch law firm prepared a pitch in Moscow to Russian businesses: come to the Netherlands and we can help you avoid taxes and keep your assets safe. “You can rely on our legal system!” the ...
AstraZeneca rejects the bid from Pfizer
May 2nd, 2014
The board of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Friday flatly rejected drug maker Pfizer’s sweetened takeover offer just hours after it was levelled, describing it as inadequate. Pfizer Inc., the maker of Viagra, offered 50 pounds ($84) a share in ...
Pfizer bids $106.5 Billion for AstraZeneca
May 2nd, 2014
Pfizer Inc. (PFE) sweetened its bid for AstraZeneca Plc (AZN) to about 63.1 billion pounds ($106.5 billion), aiming to bring the U.K.’s second-biggest drugmaker to the negotiating table. The cash-and-stock offer values AstraZeneca at 50 pounds a share in ...
Energy Future Packs Three Courtrooms at First Hearing
May 2nd, 2014
It took three courtrooms to accommodate the lawyers, advisers and observers gathered for the first hearing in Energy Future Holdings Corp.’s bankruptcy in Wilmington, Delaware. That still left the main courtroom with standing room only. Given the clamor over ...
CEOs must act before HMRC’s investigations
April 30th, 2014
The phenomenal pace of international tax transparency initiatives continues to accelerate. Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced at the G5 finance ministers’ meeting this week that agreements for the automatic exchange of information between the UK, France, Germany, ...
Deutsche Bank Attacks Basel Plan’s Threat to Repo Market
April 30th, 2014
Global banks from Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) to Credit Suisse Group AG (CS) are urging international regulators to rethink a liquidity rule they say risks harming the market for repurchase agreements and pushing up governments’ borrowing costs. Draft plans ...
U.K.’s Transaction Tax Plan on hold by the European court
April 30th, 2014
The U.K. lost a bid to counter plans by 11 European Union nations for a common financial-transactions tax, after the bloc’s top court said it was too soon to rule on the legality of the move. The European Court ...
Tax inspections in Greece are increasing
April 30th, 2014
It’s Saturday night going on Sunday morning at a club near the gated homes of the Greek elite in northern Athens as two men and a woman in business suits push through the crowd and demand to see the ...
