04/02/2013
François Hollande's former tax tsar begged for "forgiveness" after admitting to having an undeclared Swiss bank account for the past 20 years, as he was placed under formal investigation for tax fraud.
04/02/2013
Tax experts have warned that the Government’s efforts to introduce a blanket ban on tax avoidance are “utterly confusing” and causing “dangerous chaos” weeks before they are due to be introduced.
04/01/2013
Norton Rose advises Greencoat on innovative wind farm investment fund IPO
Greencoat UK Wind is an infrastructure fund managed by Greencoat Capital. It raised the maximum amount of £260 million after planning to raise a minimum of million through the London Stock Exchange listing.
03/31/2013
Breakup of Financial Services Authorities puts Bank in charge of regulation and crisis avoidance in biggest shakeup since 1997
03/31/2013
The tax would apply only to investments not held in Isa or pension accounts and would involve average payments of just £10, suggesting it posed more of an administrative headache than a financial loss.
03/31/2013
As an example of a practice no longer deemed acceptable, he cited the way banks used trust arrangements to pay bonuses to employees that meant they avoided national insurance and allowed them to defer the tax on those bonuses.
03/28/2013
France's Hollande Hits Companies With 75% Wealth Tax
"I am sticking by my pledge," Hollande said
03/28/2013
Royal Bank of Scotland sued for misleading investors in 2008 crisis
Former chief Fred Goodwin could give evidence as pension funds and ING take bank to court over huge losses
03/28/2013
The Amsterdam court ruled ABN Amro was entitled to suspend the bankers before completing its investigations.
03/27/2013
A review by the Financial Services Authority that has re-evaluated the value of bank assets
03/27/2013
There are around 500 adviser firms being pursued by the FSCS, relating to about 1,500 Keydata investors.
03/26/2013
He was previously international head of Taylor Wessing’s China Group, and will also continue to lead the practice internationally.
03/26/2013
The deal comes after Berwin Leighton Paisner earlier this year took a role for Schroders on the Alternative Investment Market listing of its West End property trust.
03/26/2013
Plans hand the Bank of England sweeping new powers to regulate the financial system have been criticised by the former head of the Bundesbank, who warned they risked the independence of the central bank.
03/26/2013
Singh has been a member of the alternative investment manager’s in-house team since joining from Clifford Chance
03/26/2013
Addleshaw Goddard will promote eight of the firm's lawyers to Partner with effect from 1 May 2013
03/26/2013
Prudential failed to deal with the FSA in an open and cooperative manner when it was seeking to acquire AIA in early 2010, because it did not inform the FSA of the proposed acquisition until after it had been leaked to the media on 27 February 2010.
03/26/2013
The Manchester-based firm advised 98 clients to invest a total of £3.1m in Keydata’s life settlement products between September 2005 and April 2009.
03/25/2013
This year's promotions come after the firm's EMEA arm made up three lawyers last year, with all of which were based in the UK, including two in London and one in Milton Keynes.
03/25/2013
Bradford & Bingley was nationalised after collapsing under a mountain of debt