04/29/2016
CMS has added 31 partners across 22 offices globally, in addition to two director appointments in Scotland. Women represent over 39% of the firm’s promotions, spread across a number of practice areas and jurisdictions
04/27/2016
A global clampdown on tax evasion, led by US law authorities, means a Swiss account is no longer such an easy place to hide ill-gotten gains.
04/25/2016
Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers leak, had alleged that HSBC had asked for the creation of offshore companies for their clients.
04/22/2016
Daniel le Roux, an attorney representing the 10 former directors of Abil, confirmed that court papers were filed on April 15 and declined to comment on his clients’ behalf.
04/22/2016
The court heard the scheme, involving synthetic sales of bonds, was designed to take advantage of different accounting standards governing when assets should be recognised.
04/22/2016
The Isle of Man Government has today agreed to engage in an initiative on automatic exchange of beneficial ownership information spearheaded by the five largest economies in the European Union - the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain (G5).