OFFICE OF THE US TRUSTEE

US seeks clawback of fees paid to law firm with ties to top bankruptcy judge

...The Office of the US Trustee, which represents the government’s interest in bankruptcy cases, has asked a court in Texas to reverse the award of fees made to the firm Jackson Walker in 26 cases overseen...

November 3, 2023

Climate change

US pushed behind scenes for approval of corporate carbon offset plan

...One independent trustee, Iván Duque, the former Colombian president, also holds an unpaid position on the steering committee of the African Carbon Markets Initiative, which seeks to scale the carbon credit...

April 21, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Special ReportBusiness Legal Leaders

Post Office scandal exposes ethical dilemmas of general counsel

...In the aftermath of the Enron and WorldCom fraud scandals in the early 2000s, US regulators introduced new security laws that required general counsel to report adverse information to audit committees, directors...

April 23, 2024

Letter

Letter: Vegan leather will have us all in a lather

...The many British acts of parliament, starting with the Leather Act of 1563, set out how leather should be made....

February 23, 2024

Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching

Should I use the travel insurance provided by my credit card?

...to act as a trustee in place of the deceased trustee....

March 27, 2024

Working It

Will AI make us happier?

...Read on for details on a big study of how AI and tech impact workers’ health, and in Office Therapy we deal with a doggy day care dilemma 🐶. Will the robots make us happy?...

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Inside BusinessSujeet Indap

Test case looms for companies seeking US bankruptcy protection

...The DoJ’s bankruptcy court affiliate, the Office of the US Trustee, in a court filing now argues that Sorrento deployed “an abusive venue manufacturing scheme” to improperly land in Houston....

February 26, 2024

LexEuropean banks

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank’s US property woes are coming to Europe Premium

...Germany is PBB’s biggest market with 44 per cent of its commercial real estate loans, many to office owners. German office vacancies are around 5 per cent. But the signs of stress are there....

March 13, 2024

Correction

Correction: Office for Budget Responsibility

...The Office for Budget Responsibility has warned that freezing fuel duty in the long run would cost the Treasury £6.3bn by the end of the decade, not more than £8bn as wrongly state in an article on...

March 19, 2024

Working It

Secrets of perfect panel moderation

...Matt gave an example: “‘All of us — those on the Zoom and those here are curious about . . .’ Do you hear how I am using inclusive language?”...

April 17, 2024

FTX Trading Ltd

Law firm conflicts ‘permeated FTX’s bankruptcy’, professors allege

...The office of the US Trustee, a part of the Department of Justice that represents the public interest in bankruptcy cases, initially objected to S&C’s retention, arguing that the law firm had failed to properly...

March 26, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The radical repricing of US interest rates

...It was quite the turnaround. At the end of last year, futures markets had priced in six interest rate cuts for the US in 2024....

April 19, 2024

Honduras

Honduras’s former president convicted of drug trafficking

...The conviction on Friday capped a spectacular fall for the former leader, a one-time close ally of the US government who was arrested just weeks after he left office in 2022....

March 8, 2024

Leo Lewis

How the secret of sleep keeps us awake

...Yet the most basic question of the lot — how does tiredness work and what makes us sleepy? — remains tauntingly and magnificently unanswered....

April 23, 2024

Working from home

The banks on the frontline of the remote working battle

...Research by Scoop, which tracks hybrid working, shows 93 per cent of British finance companies offer the perk compared with 87 per cent of their US counterparts....

March 4, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

Letter

Letter: More to Austen than bonnet-laden romance

...In short, all the inhabitants of current business life. And she is entertaining as well as enlightening. Why look further? Heather Thomas Trustee, The Jane Austen Society London N1, UK...

January 5, 2024

Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching

Can I claim against my accountant for fees to HMRC?

...That is not a bar to you being a trustee, but do you have any other interests that may conflict with your duty, as a trustee, to act only in the best interests of the charity?...

April 3, 2024

News in-depthPost Office scandal

Former judiciary chief warns on Post Office mass exoneration

...of disclosure and could lead to the Post Office opposing hundreds of appeals....

April 5, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Office politics — how to play the game

...If the phrase “office politics” makes you feel queasy, you’re not alone. Most of us want to do our work without worrying too much about making the right connections or pleasing the right people....

February 27, 2024

Commercial property

Private equity-owned German bank hit after 25% of US office loans default

...Aareal said it was sitting on €1bn of non-performing US office loans, out of a total US office portfolio of €4bn. “Are we expecting that more cases are yet to come?...

February 29, 2024

Commercial property

Hedge funds bet against German lender over US real estate exposure

...Spun out of a bank nationalised by the German government in 2009, PBB has almost doubled its US office exposure since the end of 2020....

February 22, 2024

John Thornhill

The bitter technological lesson of the Post Office scandal

...Ed Davey, now leader of the Liberal Democrats, was one of 17 postal affairs ministers to have held the role while the scandal unfolded. Davey now accuses the Post Office of a “conspiracy of lies”....

January 11, 2024

Post Office scandal

UK Post Office sought to double chief executive’s pay package

...Read, who was appointed to lead the business in 2019, is one of a number of individuals who are the subject of an internal misconduct investigation, the Post Office confirmed on Tuesday....

February 28, 2024

Stephen Bush

Why won’t the Tories talk about their success in education?

...The lawyers insisting on maintaining human rights and due process against a Home Office keen to deport anyone who comes to the UK via small boats are also part of a blob....

March 6, 2024

UK immigration

Sunak’s Rwanda asylum scheme could cost UK £580mn, watchdog warns

...The report by the National Audit Office was commissioned after two powerful committees of MPs — public accounts and home affairs — demanded greater clarity about the full costs of the Rwanda policy, which...

March 1, 2024

Search Results

Viewing results 1‒25 of 609803

Viewing results 1‒25 of 609803

Related links