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UK Lawyers and US Lawyers in the market of private equity

16/12/2014(0)
UK firms are in battle with their US counterparts to win more private equity and related work – and a report suggests ways that the UK lawyers could make ... Read More
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Boiler room fraudsters ordered to pay £843k

15/12/2014(0)
Two men involved in a £70 million boiler room fraud have been ordered to pay £843,000 between them after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. In 2010 Philip ... Read More
Legal letter

Boss of hedge fund Weavering battles fraud charges in London court

15/12/2014(0)
Magnus Peterson, battling fraud charges after his $600 million Weavering hedge fund collapsed during the financial crisis, told a court on Friday he could not remember which investors he ... Read More
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Melbourne lawyer jailed for 12 years for $12m Ponzi fraud

10/12/2014(0)
‘Many of your victims trusted you because you were a family member or friend, you exploited their trust for your own personal gain,’ judge tells Philip Linacre A Melbourne ... Read More
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Legal leaders join hands against client snooping

09/12/2014(0)
Legal chiefs and academics today demanded new laws to stop police and security services from spying on meetings between lawyers and their clients. In a declaration to mark European ... Read More
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Commodity Benchmarks Seen Open to Manipulation, Law Firm Says

08/12/2014(0)
Almost two-thirds of commodity market participants say that benchmarks used to set the price of everything from crude oil to ethanol to zinc are vulnerable to manipulation, according to ... Read More
Legal letter

Two Sydney men plead guilty to insider trading

05/12/2014(0)
Two Sydney men, including a former analyst with ratings agency Moody’s, today pleaded guilty to insider trading that netted a profit of more than $180,000. Daniel Joffe, 37, of ... Read More
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Australia probes bitcoin crime links as currency craves legitimacy

03/12/2014(0)
A top Australian law enforcement agency is investigating bitcoin’s role in organized crime, a senior official said, just as politicians and financial regulators embrace the digital currency as a ... Read More
cybercrime

Bolster your digital defences

25/11/2014(0)
Cyber criminals have the financial services sector firmly in their sights, but there is much that organisations and employees can do to protect themselves from the threat Cyber crime ... Read More
bitcoin

Bitcoin Needs an Aggressive Legal Defense

25/11/2014(0)
Across the board, bitcoin requires forceful and aggressive legal defense, not complicity with governments in crafting policy and regulations. It’s going to get a lot rougher for bitcoin in ... Read More
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