09/27/2016
PM Christie Gives Baha Mar Update
Additional sums deducted from employees and former employees’ salaries and pension contributions are also being repaid
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09/26/2016
Germany's 'James Bond' goes on trial over tax evasion
He will asked to account for the operation of several bank offshore accounts, in Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and the Bahamas under aliases.
09/23/2016
Argentina's Macri, Chile's Pinochet Embroiled in Bahamas Leaks
The Macri family’s Grupo Socma holding invested in ViajeYa.com, a company registered in the Bahamas which focuses on online tourism services, according to a report in La Nación daily.
09/23/2016
CBC INVESTIGATES Senator reports herself to ethics czar over tax-haven revelations
'I had no knowledge of, or participation in… the listing of my name as a director' of offshore firm
09/22/2016
Guernsey firms advises Macquarie on the launch of Europe’s largest infrastructure fund of 2016
The fund closed with €4 billion of investor commitments within eight months of its launch and was significantly oversubscribed.
09/22/2016
Parslows appoints Practice Manager
Parslows has appointed Martin Orchard as Practice Manager
09/22/2016
Former EU Official Among Politicians Named in New Leak of Offshore Files from The Bahamas
As the EU’s commissioner for competition policy from 2004 until 2010, she was Europe's top corporate enforcer and made Forbes magazine’s annual list of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” five times.
09/21/2016
Appleby Partner speaks at IBA Conference
It has a membership of more than 80,000 individual lawyers and more than 190 bar associations and law societies spanning over 160 countries.
09/20/2016
Takkas seeks separate trial in FIFA corruption case
The men are among the 42 individuals and organisations charged so far in the massive US probe
09/20/2016
Ogier advise on first Jersey managed trust company for Chinese firm
The Jersey Financial Services Commission has issued a licence to Ark Trust (Jersey) Limited, a subsidiary of Chinese firm Noah Wealth Management.
09/20/2016
Ogier's Sevyn Kalsi in eprivateclient's "Top 35 Under 35" list
The recognition comes in the same month that he has been included in both Citywealth's Leaders List and Future Leaders List.
09/20/2016
Top tier position maintained for Ogier's "excellent" banking and finance team
The Legal 500 UK 2016 names Katrina as a leading individual, praising her as ‘knowledgeable, pragmatic and commercial’.
09/20/2016
Appleby retains place as Isle of Man's highest-rated law firm
The Legal 500 UK guide confirms Tier 1 status in seven practice areas for Appleby Isle of Man
09/20/2016
Appleby and Estera advise on $200m listing of Waterloo Investment
Appleby and offshore management and administration services firm Estera have advised on the $200m public offering and listing
09/19/2016
The Rich Kid rip-off...
Controversial binary options gambling group Banc De Binary has come under fire from some of its customers with one know to have reported them to Action Fraud.
09/19/2016
Criminal charges relating to Panama Papers could take years: ATO
The raids followed AUSTRAC identifying suspicious cross-border movement of funds between Australia and other countries
09/19/2016
Russian court recovers $21.5 million from Cypriot offshore on request of Trust bank
This is not the first claim Trust Bank has filed against various offshore firms.
09/16/2016
Graft trial ends for French ex-minister 'rooted in fraud'
The story of the fraud, allegedly perpetrated between 1992 and 2013, reads like a cross between a cheap airport novel and an international financial crime manual.
09/16/2016
Working in a world without retirement ages
Article first published in CONNECT in September 2016
09/16/2016
Anguilla snapshot: options and advantages - Harneys
Anguilla, or “British Anguilla” is an attractive jurisdiction to North America’s private equity market; but what other corporate options does it offer, and how is it different from the BVI?