07/09/2018
Ogier tops offshore table for European M&A firms
Ogier has also been ranked in tenth place in the Japanese league table for M&A work
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
07/09/2018
The impact of GDPR on divorce proceedings
Understand the impact of GDPR on divorce proceedings.
07/08/2018
EU warns Cyprus of fiscal risks as it battles to contain bank crisis
The government has issued 2.35 billion euros (2.7 billion U.S. dollars) in government bonds to facilitate the sale of the "good part" of the CCB to Hellenic Bank
07/06/2018
HMRC unit hunts for ‘hidden’ offshore assets of the wealthy
839 investigations into UK taxpayers hiding money offshore opened last year
07/06/2018
EU lawmakers back plan for European Investment Bank work in Iran
The European Parliament overwhelmingly blocked a motion by far-right lawmakers seeking to prevent the European Commission from lifting restrictions on the EIB in Iran
07/06/2018
Credit Suisse pays U.S. $77 million to settle Asia hiring corruption probes
Credit Suisse was accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by hiring and promoting dozens of people connected with Asian government officials from 2007 to 2013
07/06/2018
Platforms to engage closely with regulator over outages
An Aviva spokeswoman said: "We will study the discussion paper in detail and we look forward to engaging constructively with the regulators on these important issues."
07/06/2018
Ogier advises on £162m sale of Sterling portfolio
We are delighted to see how the hard work of all those involved over the past three years has resulted in the portfolio's successful sale.
07/06/2018
Oxfam makes call for public beneficial registers in Jersey
OXFAM GB has waded into the controversy around public beneficial registers by calling on the British government to force Jersey to introduce them.
07/06/2018
Adviser faces jail over £2m owed to ex-wife
The judge had made it clear at the start of the hearing, in the Family Division of the High Court in London on Thursday, that he was sitting in public.
07/06/2018
Footballer reveals limitations of his financial adviser
He said that throughout his career he made full use of his Isa allowances and this aspect of his finances was always handled by his adviser.
07/05/2018
UK Supreme Court Rejects NZ Super Funds Joint Debt Recovery Claim
Separate proceedings have been filed in Portugal against the Bank of Portugal, challenging the validity of its decision not to transfer the Oak Finance loan from BES to Novo Banco.
07/05/2018
Ex-EFG banker claims dismissal was linked to whistleblowing
Bank says a formal investigation had not upheld the banker’s claims
07/05/2018
Pinsent Masons successful at Supreme Court for Novo Banco
Pinsent Masons’ team was led by Stuart McNeill, with assistance from associate Caroline Hearn.
07/05/2018
European Union: Adoption of the Fifth AntiMoney Laundering Directive
Under the 4AMLD, Member States are required to identify and obtain accurate and current information on beneficial owners of legal entities and legal arrangements.
07/05/2018
Have You Heard About ePrivacy? The GDPR’s Bigger Brother
The GDPR does not consider metadata or the privacy of communication about or between legal entities
07/05/2018
Amount of money laundered via Danske Bank Estonia could be €7 billion
Following the latest allegations, Danske's head of group compliance Anders Meinert Jørgensen, stated that "it is too soon to draw any conclusions about the extent of the potential money laundering in Estonia."
07/05/2018
UK tax treaty anti tax avoidance changes to apply from 2019
Changes to many of the UK's double tax treaties will come into force next year in order to comply with internationally agreed measures to prevent tax avoidance.
07/04/2018
Regulator warns on European banks’ reliance on cloud computing
Banks’ use of the cloud is increasingly a concern for regulators on both sides of the Atlantic but so is lenders’ legacy IT systems, which have thrown up a host of operational issues, with recent outages leaving hundreds of thousands of custom
07/04/2018
Jail for accountant who swindled elderly victims out of £2m
Arthur, who was a chartered accountant and managing director of the accountancy firm BDO, carried out the deception over a seven-year period