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US lawmakers cautious about cash method of accounting
September 12th, 2014
Switching to accrual accounting would be severely damaging to businesses, US lawmakers have warned in a letter calling for the preservation of the cash method of accounting. The letter, signed by a bipartisan majority of the US House of ...
Nevada lawmakers consider $1.3 billion in tax breaks for electric car maker
September 12th, 2014
Nevada lawmakers on Thursday approved a package of bills to provide $1.3 billion in tax breaks and other incentives for Tesla Motors, clinching a deal for the electric car company to build a massive factory in the state. “This ...
Mexican companies sue Yahoo, law firm charge conspiracy to avoid $2.7 billion judgment
September 12th, 2014
Two Mexican companies have sued Yahoo! Inc (YHOO.O) and law firm Baker & McKenzie in New York federal court, accusing them of engineering a conspiracy to avoid a $2.7 billion judgment issued by a Mexico court in 2012. In ...
Argentina’s Congress passes debt restructuring law
September 11th, 2014
Argentina’s Congress gave final approval on Thursday to a law proposing to restructure the country’s debt to skirt a U.S. court ruling that forced it into its second default in 12 years. The debt restructuring plan aims to enable ...
SEC Announces Charges Against Corporate Insiders for Violating Laws
September 11th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against 28 officers, directors, or major shareholders for violating federal securities laws requiring them to promptly report information about their holdings and transactions in company stock. Six publicly-traded companies were charged ...
PwC to face U.S. lawsuit over Colonial Bank collapse
September 11th, 2014
Accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crowe Horwath must face a lawsuit accusing them of professional malpractice and breach of contract for not catching a fraud that led to the 2009 collapse of Colonial Bank, a federal judge has ruled. Filed ...
Argentina says ‘many creditors’ want to swap into local law debt
September 5th, 2014
Many investors are interested in swapping global Argentine bonds for paper governed by local law, cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich said on Friday, a day after the Senate approved the proposed debt exchange as a way to circumvent U.S. court ...
At Trial, Arab Bank’s Lawyer Spars With Witness
September 5th, 2014
For three days, the former chief of the Israeli military’s Palestinian Affairs Department delivered important, if a bit dry, testimony in the terrorism financing trial of Arab Bank in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. The witness, Arieh Spitzen, had ...
Gibraltar Delays Introduction Of New Companies Law
September 3rd, 2014
Gibraltar has agreed to industry requests to delay the introduction of its new Companies Act and Insolvency Act for a month, until November 1, 2014. The announcement was made in response to requests from the financial services industry and ...
Nation of Privilege Versus Rule of Law
August 29th, 2014
These days, the word “privilege” has been reduced to a trite buzzword. That’s a shame, because it used to mean more than just being born into advantageous circumstances. The word, which means “private law” in old French, originally referred ...
