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...Nic Arnold, UK head of JTC Private Office, says that the tax considerations involved for the purchasers of superyachts revolve, in part, around the tax regime where the owner is resident....
...Even though there’s a safe harbour for reasonable statements and those made in good faith, it is vague and so may not protect a company from aggressive plaintiffs or regulators....
...The case began as a class-action lawsuit filed in 2011....
...ASX-listed BHP said on Thursday that it had agreed to pay plaintiffs in a US class action complaint $50m “with no admission of liability”....
...Opponents, led by plaintiff Robert Pepper, an iPhone owner from Chicago, are seeking class action status for their complaint that the world’s most valuable company has “monopolised” the software market for...
...Several claims have argued that companies offered their employees expensive versions of funds when cheaper, “institutional” class shares, were available....
...The lawsuit, filed in California federal court on Monday, was brought by two plaintiffs —including Robert Colman, the founder of San Francisco-based investment bank Robertson Stephens, now living in Idaho...
...Shawn Heaton, the initial plaintiff in the class action lawsuit, claimed that SoFi had performed a “hard pull”, which shows up on a person’s credit report when applying for loans, when it had told him it...
...There are transitional rules for purchasers who have exchanged, but not completed contracts before midnight. These reforms raise £500 million a year....
...Moreover, many purchasers of LIBOR–based instruments could have actually benefitted from the artificially low rates (one OTC plaintiff admitted it may have been indifferent to USD LIBOR movements depending...
...British Airways has settled a class-action lawsuit in the US for $89.5m over fixing the prices of air cargo, reports the FT....
...Congress passed a law in 1998 forcing purchasers and sellers of stocks into federal court with their big class-action suits; federal law sets a high bar for such lawsuits. The question in Tuesday?...
...Why would Congress with respect to this category want there to be a more plaintiff-friendly rule than it put in place for the purchaser-seller???...
...The asset class tends to move inversely to the stock market and thus has attractive hedging qualities. Commercial property also has certain advantages over residential....
...The committee has blocked only one deal – the takeover of Mamco Manufacturing by a Chinese company in 1990 – but through indirect political pressure it has derailed a handful of other transactions....
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