Search Results for: UK law
Google Grilling: Search Giant Faces More Questions Over Tax Deal With UK Government
February 11th, 2016
Earlier this month Alphabet, the parent company of Google, granted Google CEO Sundar Pichai almost $200 million in stock options. That sum, generous by any measure, is greater than the $185 million Google agreed to pay a week earlier to settle British tax issues covering the past ...
Top London Lawyers Now Cost More Than £1,000 Per Hour
February 8th, 2016
Report says hourly rates for elite London firms at record high Lack of competition and opaque fee structures are to blame The cost of hiring a top London lawyer has risen to more than 1,000 pounds ($1,445) an hour, ...
Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay and Apple avoided £1BILLION of UK tax
January 27th, 2016
A Mirror investigation has revealed the UK is missing out on huge sums as multinational firms are based in tax havens Five of the world’s biggest tech companies avoided paying £1 BILLION in UK tax last year, the Mirror ...
UK tax avoidance: Google looks ‘to pay three times more tax’ in France than in UK
January 26th, 2016
Google is said to be negotiating a tax settlement with France worth three times more than it paid the British Exchequer even though it employs thousands more staff in the UK. The UK arm generates about three times as ...
P2P lender seeks 100 law firms for first panel
January 25th, 2016
A peer-to-peer lender created by the owners of a Cornish law firm is looking for high street practices to join what it says is the first legal panel in the fast-growing alternative finance sector. Folk2Folk was co-founded by two ...
Law firms win pay battle with RBS as Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Allen & Overy reappointed
January 12th, 2016
The tug of war between The Royal Bank of Scotland and its go-to law firms over a proposed pay freeze ended in victory for the lawyers, as Magic Circle firms Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters and Allen & Overy (A&O) won appointments to the bank’s legal ...
Twitter files lawsuit against Turkish fine
January 11th, 2016
Twitter files lawsuit against Turkish fine over ‘terrorist propaganda’ – source Micro-blogging site Twitter filed a lawsuit in an Ankara court on Thursday, seeking to annul a fine by the Turkish authorities for not removing content Turkey says is ...
Which Law Firms were top performers in global M&A in USA and Europe
January 7th, 2016
Skadden and Freshfields top global deal tables as M&A figures reach record heights In a record year for global M&A, US firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Magic Circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer were the top performers ...
More banks pay no UK tax, Labour wants tougher approach
January 4th, 2016
Two more investment banks have reported paying zero tax in Britain in 2014, prompting the opposition Labour party to urge the government to reverse a tax change it made for banks last year. Citigroup and Credit Suisse disclosed in ...
Ukraine officially defaults on $3bn debt to Russia; Moscow to sue Kiev in London court
January 4th, 2016
Russia’s Finance Ministry is filing a lawsuit against Ukraine for failing to pay off its $3 billion debt to Russia before the December 31 deadline. This means that Ukraine is now officially in a state of default, the ministry ...
