04/28/2022
Sung Kook (Bill) Hwang – the Founder and Head of Archegos – and Three Others Charged with Racketeering and Fraud Offenses Related to Market Manipulation Scheme
04/27/2022
The judgment also expressed the view that all legal proceedings against an ELP (i.e. not merely winding up petitions) must be brought against the general partner.
04/26/2022
The Court was satisfied that its conclusion "involves no element of prejudgment on the substantive issues raised in the proceedings" and overturned the decision on appeal.
04/22/2022
Other financial losses could result from the loss of the bargain, according to the court, which cited potential costs associated with a re-procurement exercise as an example.
04/22/2022
'My husband has left and taken the dog and boy do I miss her …'
04/14/2022
Former top Swiss banker convicted for fraud
A second defendant, Beat Stocker, the former CEO of an IT service management company, was given a four-year prison sentence and a fine.
04/14/2022
Under the domestic legal framework, Hong Kong SAR courts have continually demonstrated their support for arbitratio
04/12/2022
These cases taken together show that it will be a question of fact and degree whether the misappreciation of the degree of risk knowingly taken is so serious as to amount to a mistake and/or justify the Court withholding relief.
04/06/2022
TSB reported suspicious activity to the National Crime Agency (NCA), which refused to allow transactions on the account.
03/31/2022
Scottish court guides trustees on use of indemnity clauses in trust deeds
The trustee of the Plumbing and Mechanical Services (UK) Industry Pension Scheme had experienced difficulties in applying employer debt legislation laid out in section 75 of the Pensions Act 1995.
03/31/2022
The agreement obliged CHY to pay the put price to buy CIA’s put shares in CHZ.
03/30/2022
The judge noted that the decision only concerned the “narrow issue” of the alleged fraud in relation to the liquidation and dissolution of the Porton companies.
03/28/2022
The complaint stated that the two individuals, Ofer Abarbanel and Victor Chilelli, misappropriated investor funds by diverting these monies into shell companies in uncollateralized loan transactions in violation of the Fund's prospectus and in breach
03/25/2022
Standing is concerned with who may bring a claim in judicial review and, for successive governments, it has been “ripe for review” for some time.
03/25/2022
The court dismissed the appeal and affirmed the decision of Justice Ellis in the BVI High Court below.
03/24/2022
The former monarch is being sued in London’s High Court by his ex-lover Corinna Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
03/23/2022
Mourant acted for Concentric in successfully defending an unfair dismissal claim brought by an employee who was summarily dismissed for failing to raise an internal suspicious activity report.
03/20/2022
The Cayman Islands government is under pressure to demonstrate to the Financial Action Task Force by May of this year that it has implemented an agreed action plan.
03/17/2022
APP frauds occur where a victim authorises a bank transfer into an account which they believe is controlled by a legitimate payee, but actually belongs to a fraudster.
03/14/2022
The Court of Appeal upheld this decision.