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EU publishes details over Apple’s Irish tax breaks case

30/09/2014(0)
European Union antitrust officials published Tuesday details about a decision to open an in-depth investigation into Apple’s tax deals with Ireland that it alleges fall short of international standards. ... Read More
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Alibaba IPO shows why lawyers matter

29/09/2014(0)
Following the record-setting IPO of Alibaba, Jack Ma is now a global business icon. In China he has been a business titan for a much longer period of time. ... Read More
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CEO of tax specialist cleared of wrongdoing after HMRC climb down

15/09/2014(0)
The chief executive and a former director of the tax specialist arm of financial group Montpelier have been cleared of cheating the public revenue of £1m, after HM Revenue ... Read More
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Oscar Pistorius guilty of ‘culpable homicide’

12/09/2014(0)
South African judge on Friday convicted athlete Oscar Pistorius of “culpable homicide” in the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. A conviction of culpable homicide, the term for manslaughter ... Read More
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PwC to face U.S. lawsuit over Colonial Bank collapse

11/09/2014(0)
Accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crowe Horwath must face a lawsuit accusing them of professional malpractice and breach of contract for not catching a fraud that led to the 2009 ... Read More
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GSK China consumer healthcare unit linked to DOJ probe in 2012

09/09/2014(0)
A U.S. anti-bribery probe into GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) touched on the firm’s Chinese consumer healthcare business in 2012, internal documents show, suggesting the drugmaker’s compliance problems in China could ... Read More
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Ex-U.S. Envoy Khalilzad Money-Laundering Probe Leads to Austria

08/09/2014(0)
A U.S. probe into alleged money laundering by Zalmay Khalilzad has led Austrian authorities to freeze a Vienna bank account linked to the former presidential envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, ... Read More
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At Trial, Arab Bank’s Lawyer Spars With Witness

05/09/2014(0)
For three days, the former chief of the Israeli military’s Palestinian Affairs Department delivered important, if a bit dry, testimony in the terrorism financing trial of Arab Bank in ... Read More
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Halliburton Agrees To Pay $1.1 Billion To Avoid Future Claims

04/09/2014(0)
Halliburton Co. has reached a settlement in U.S. District Court in New Orleans to pay $1.1 billion to resolve most of the claims against it arising from the Deepwater ... Read More
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Second Trial Approaching for Rowland, Ex-Connecticut Governor

03/09/2014(0)
The accusations are similar. The judge will be different. The last time John G. Rowland, the former governor of Connecticut, appeared at the federal courthouse here as a defendant ... Read More
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