04/17/2012
The team also includes two partners in the firm's Dubai office, with corporate duo Gavin Watson and Chris Sioufi also joining Dechert, which currently does not have a presence in the United Arab Emirates.
04/17/2012
The decision to pass the case to the sanctions committee, which is composed mainly of independent magistrates, means the FSMA considers that there is enough evidence to take the case forward and that there will be no settlement with the parties involved.
04/16/2012
But Austria's deal is far less favourable than those struck by Britain and Germany, which both responded to political pressure by extracting big up-front payments and more concessions from Switzerland.
04/13/2012
Darwin (pictured) is replacing David Bradley as UK managing partner, with Bradley returning to full-time practice in the employment, pensions and benefits group.
04/12/2012
The proposals, dubbed a ‘fraudster’s charter’, come as part of a radical shake-up of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, the safety net which protects savers and investors.
04/12/2012
Olenicoff sued UBS in 2008, accusing the bank of fraud, conspiracy and other charges in handling some US$200mil he kept in offshore accounts and claiming that UBS had wrongfully advised him that he did not have to report them to the IRS.
04/11/2012
Denouncing the legacy of outgoing President Nicolas Sarkozy’s five-year term in office, marked by accumulated debt of EUR612bn (USD799.7bn), by a proliferation of supplementary finance laws and incoherent budgets, aimed at maintaining the fiscal pri
04/09/2012
Tax rises for the wealthy are at the heart of the debate and if the left wins, France could become the country with the highest tax on the rich in the EU, and one of the most punishing in the world.
04/09/2012
One of the sets of data is information from the Zurich Coutts Bank, a unit of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, the German magazine reported.
04/09/2012
Dechert has opened an office in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with the hire of Chadbourne & Parke's attorneys there.