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Anti-Money Laundering Implications for the Art Market in the UK

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Introduction - The art market is characterised by high-value, portable items that can be bought and exchanged quickly and often confidentially. These features, which make the market inherently vulnerable to many types of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Offshore Roundup

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Two Birds, One Stone: Addressing COO and DAC6 Risks in Tandem - UK Criminal Finances Act 2017 (CFA) and the EU Directive on Administrative Cooperation (DAC6) compliance matters are likely to come under increased scrutiny...more

WilmerHale

The failure to prevent tax evasion

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The Criminal Finances Act 2017 (“the Act”)1 came into force on 30 September 2017. The Act contains a patchwork of new powers, and amendments to existing legislation, largely directed at combatting money laundering and...more

Dechert LLP

Financial Services Quarterly Report - Third Quarter 2017: Global Update: UK Criminal Finance Act 2017: Immediate Considerations...

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UK asset managers, non-UK asset managers carrying on business in the UK and the funds they manage are within the scope of the new corporate criminal offences of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion. As the new...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"'Failure to Prevent': The Implications for Global Financial Institutions"

The U.K. government is set to introduce a new corporate criminal offence, based on the strict liability of the entity in question. It almost certainly will come into force in 2017, once the Criminal Finances Bill (Bill) is...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"The New UK Corporate Offence of 'Failure to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion': Implications for Fund Managers and...

The U.K. government expands its crackdown on tax evaders and the persons who assist them, by targeting businesses who fail to prevent tax evasion....more

A&O Shearman

Corporate criminal liability risk increases for financial services

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A proposed new UK law contains the largest expansion of UK corporate criminal liability since the Bribery Act 2010 and one of the most significant overhauls of money laundering and proceeds of crime legislation in the last...more

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