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Luxury lawyers line up for Jimmy Choo $1.35bn acquisition
August 1st, 2017
Global fashion house Michael Kors is to acquire luxury footwear and accessories brand Jimmy Choo with the city’s top luxury law firms on hand to advise. The high profile deal is the latest in the luxury law sector which ...
Proposed Binary Options Law Implementation in Israel Postponed to Early 2018
July 31st, 2017
As it now stands, the passed bill considers all activities connected to binary options trading to be a criminal offense and can be punishable with up to two years in prison. It seems that the new binary options law ...
Multinational law firm success in landmark class action case sought against MasterCard
July 25th, 2017
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has had a major success after the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled against certifying a US-style £14bn opt-out consumer damages antitrust class actions against its client MasterCard. Mr Justice Roth, CAT President, ruled against allowing the ...
One of the world’s leading law firms fined a record £250,000
July 21st, 2017
White & Case has been fined a record £250,000 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) for breaching conduct rules. The SDT found that the firm had acted ‘recklessly’ failing to declare conflicts of interest and protect confidential information about ...
Legal chatbot expands to cover 1000 areas of law
July 19th, 2017
Law firms have no incentive to innovate, the legal chatbot founder of DoNotPay claims as he launches his latest idea. The legal chatbot which started out as a tool to challenge traffic tickets is expanding its remit to cover ...
UK introduces measures ending the supremacy of EU Law
July 14th, 2017
The UK government has begun the technical process of extricating the UK from the European Union by introducing a 66-page measure ending the supremacy of EU law. As expected, the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill would repeal the European Communities ...
Google hires numerous law firms to fight EU fines
July 11th, 2017
Google is surrounding itself with some of the top law firms in Europe in the wake of its record-breaking €2.4 billion ‘illegal’ anti-trust ruling fine and the threat of more penalities on the horizon. Google is taking no chances ...
Ethereum Traders File Class Action Lawsuit Over Kraken Flash Crash
July 6th, 2017
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against cryptocurrency exchange startup Kraken over issues stemming from its management of a May flash crash. Less than two months later, five customers of the exchange are alleging negligence, breach of contract and ...
CySec announced settlement with a Cyprus Investment Firm for possible violations of the Law
July 5th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to make publish its decision about reach a settlement with a Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF). According the announcement: CySec, under article 37(4) of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Multinational law firm has further grown its European offering
July 4th, 2017
Fieldfisher, a multinational law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom has issued an announcement to inform that has further grown its European offering with an office in Bologna, Italy. According the announcement: Fieldfisher continues meteoric growth with latest office ...
