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UK Lawyers and US Lawyers in the market of private equity
December 16th, 2014
UK firms are in battle with their US counterparts to win more private equity and related work – and a report suggests ways that the UK lawyers could make greater advances. A report by Fox Rodney Search into the ...
Google To Close Its Google News Service In Spain On December 16 In Response To New Law
December 11th, 2014
Google is saying adios to Google News in Spain, after announcing it will close the service down in the country on December 16 in response to the impact of a new law. The company said that incoming legislation in the European country will ...
Melbourne lawyer jailed for 12 years for $12m Ponzi fraud
December 10th, 2014
‘Many of your victims trusted you because you were a family member or friend, you exploited their trust for your own personal gain,’ judge tells Philip Linacre A Melbourne lawyer who stole from grieving widows, a famous musician and ...
Commodity Benchmarks Seen Open to Manipulation, Law Firm Says
December 8th, 2014
Almost two-thirds of commodity market participants say that benchmarks used to set the price of everything from crude oil to ethanol to zinc are vulnerable to manipulation, according to a new study. The report, to be published today by ...
UK passes tough new transparency law for oil, gas and mining companies
December 1st, 2014
A historic law came into force in the UK today that will help fight poverty and corruption in resource-rich but poor countries said Global Witness, which has been campaigning for such measures for over 16 years. The new rules ...
Goldman, BASF, HSBC accused of metals price fixing: U.S. lawsuit
November 28th, 2014
Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), Germany’s BASF(BASFn.DE) and two other big platinum and palladium dealers have been sued in the United States in what the plaintiff’s law firm called the first nationwide class action over alleged price-fixing of the metals. In a ...
Phase two of financial markets law completes long-term overhaul
November 28th, 2014
The second phase of New Zealand’s new capital markets and financial services law takes effect from Monday (1 December). Phase two includes licensing provisions that extend to several hundred further businesses, and a major shift in the quality of ...
Oracle, SAP settle long-running TomorrowNow lawsuit
November 14th, 2014
Oracle Corp and SAP SE have settled long-running copyright litigation for $356.7 million over improper downloads of Oracle files, ending a fierce legal battle between the two enterprise software rivals. The case involved SAP’s TomorrowNow unit, which the German company bought to ...
Apple must face U.S. lawsuit over vanishing iPhone text messages
November 12th, 2014
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) was ordered to face a U.S. federal lawsuit claiming it failed to tell consumers that its messaging system would block them from receiving text messages if they switched to Android-based smartphones from iPhones. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ...
French lawmakers seek clarity on Qatar tax breaks
November 7th, 2014
The finance committee of the French parliament has called for a report by mid-2015 on controversial tax breaks on property deals granted to states including Qatar, France’s closest Gulf ally. In Qatar’s case the concessions were granted by ex-president ...
