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The nightmare of every corporate director is to wake up to find out that the company of the Board he or she sits on is on the front page of the New York Times (NYT) for alleged illegal conduct. Originally Published in...more
Allowing Canadian investors to participate in a global rights offering is easier than you think. There are two relatively simple approaches....more
Les médias n’ont de cesse de se faire l’écho d’attaques de botnet à l’assaut de Spamhaus, de flaming worms voleurs d’informations stratégiques au Moyen-Orient ou des dommages causés par Stuxnet, l’arme fatale capable de...more
I have long been an advocate of the compliance function working with the Human Resources (HR) function in any company to help achieve greater compliance under anti-corruption laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted final rules requiring disclosure of the use of “conflict minerals” by public companies, pursuant to a provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...more
The third batch of subsidiary legislation for the implementation of the new Companies Ordinance was gazetted in May...more
One FCPA compliance topic we are often asked about by clients is how government investigations start. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have developed a number of mechanisms...more
Much of the coverage of the recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case against Ralph Lauren Corp. (RLC) focused on the fact that both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded it...more
China’s State Administration of Taxation (“SAT”) released Bulletin [2013] No. 19, “Announcement on Issues Concerning Levying Corporate Income Tax on Services Provided by Non-residents through Seconding Personnel to China”...more
Code §368(a)(1)(F) facilitates the movement of corporations from one jurisdiction to another by generally treating such reorganizations as not being subject to corporate income tax at the corporate or shareholder level....more
Arrangements allow EU securities regulators to supervise non-EU alternative fund managers and thereby allow such managers access to the EU. On 30 May, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that...more
In This Issue: - DOE Begins to Authorize Pending LNG Export Applications — Cautiously - Senators Want to Extend Master Limited Partnerships to Renewables - FERC Takes on Formula Rate Protocols - Energy...more
The SEC has issued nine frequently asked questions, or FAQs, on the disclosure of payments by resource extraction issuers....more
The nightmare of every corporate director is to wake up to find out that the company of the Board he or she sits on is on the front page of a national newspaper for alleged illegal conduct. ...more
On May 14, 2013, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Southern District of New York affirmed a magistrate judge's decision denying plaintiff Chevron Corporation's ("Chevron's") motion to quash deposition notices for Chevron CEO John...more
The recent Congressional hearings on taxation of multinational corporations drew a lot of focus on the low tax rates and low taxes paid (relative to revenue). Congress expressed outrage that the largest companies in the world...more
INTRODUCTION The Virgin Islands Special Trusts Act (“VISTA”) came into force on 1 March 2004 and was introduced in order to allow a shareholder to establish a BVI trust over a BVI company which disengages the trustee from...more
In 2010, the number of federal prosecutions for violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) more than quadrupled. The Department of Justice (DOJ) set a new record for fines and penalties – collecting nearly $1B. The...more
The United States Supreme Court held Monday in PPL Corporation v. Commissioner (No. 12-43) that a U.S. taxpayer was entitled to claim a foreign tax credit on its share of a “windfall tax” imposed on the taxpayer’s United...more
In a number of incremental steps, the PRC government has been easing restrictions on the cross-border movement of RMB. The latest step for the private equity industry is the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Limited Partner Program...more
In Colombia, as in many other countries, closing down or dissolving a business is often more complicated than setting up a new one. Although there is a lot of information related to setting up a company in this country, there...more
When Apple Inc., disclosed that it has not paid any corporate income tax over the past 4 years, it got the government’s attention. Hailed before the Senate, Apple is confident in their tax position because, it is legal. ...more
Can you synthesize and reconcile the world’s leading laws, regulations and commentaries on the best practices an anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance program. ...more
Trying to avoid the unusually strict import controls in Argentina and facilitate faster clearance of its products through customs, a subsidiary of Ralph Lauren Corp. was found to have bribed local officials between 2005 and...more
The FCPA Paparazzi has been at it again – it is fascinating to watch the reaction of practitioners and commentators in the FCPA arena. ...more
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