Below, Andrew Wilkinson, will dispute specialist at Shakespeare Martineau, comments for Lawyer Monthly on the Government’s move to increase probate fees. The Government is giving with one hand and taking away with the other. Described as a ‘stealth death tax’ this has come about because the court system is underfunded and while increased investment should […]
The SIGNA Group has submitted a purchase offer for the furniture chain kika/Leiner to the Steinhoff Group. This bid includes both the operational commercial business, with its some 5,500 employees, as well as the approximately 70 real estate locations in Austria and CEE, and means an Austrian solution for the company. Steinhoff has accepted the […]
The Canadian Public Sector Pension (PSP) Investment Board finalised their $140 Million investment in the private equity entity Fondo Inmobiliario Colombia - a real estate company subsidiary to Bancolombia. PSP Investments is a government owned pension fund management firm and is the largest pension fund in Canada, present in over 100 countries. It invests in […]
Every person facing divorce has something in common. A journey. A journey chosen by them or chosen for them. Stuart K. Skok, Owner and Principal of Stuart Skok Law LLC, a matrimonial and family law firm in Maryland, shares: “People think that they have little control over the divorce process. This is not true. Everything […]
Earlier this month headlines took the papers with the first issue of an unexplained wealth order for a woman who had spent a shocking £16 million at one of the UK’s most prestigious and recognised high-end stores: Harrods. This bill is only a fraction of the money Zamira Hajiyeva has spent over the past few […]
The word ‘bankruptcy’ can send shivers down any business person’s spine, even though there are many solutions available to save a company from collapsing. We speak with Serafim Sotiriadis, whose firm, for almost 10 years, has dealt with various clients and has succeeded to facilitate the restructuring and reorganisation of some of the most important […]
Yesterday UK Chancellor Phillip Hammond made a number of announcements and updates in the Autumn Budget 2018. You can see all things Autumn Budget and several summaries on the BBC website here. In our most in depth Your Thoughts piece to date, Lawyer Monthly rounds up the country’s leading experts in a variety of sectors, […]
With ongoing discussions around the Cypriot failure to tackle money laundering and economic crime, global banking expert Robert Lyddon discusses US efforts to force the island to improve its policies. On June 14th 2018 the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) sent a circular to all Cyprus’ banks enjoining them to better and more complete Due […]
Kerman & Co’s Private Equity team recently represented Zhejiang Silk Road Fund, a private equity fund principally sponsored and managed by Zhejiang United Investment Group, China (“ZUIG”), on its equity investment in CMR Surgical Ltd’s (“CMR Surgical”) Series B funding round. On 4 June 2018, CMR Surgical announced that it has closed a Series B […]
Dale Fiola has been practicing law for over 40 years in the Southern California area, specializing in employment, labour and administrative law for the last 30 years. With extensive years of practice, Dale shares insights into employment law in the US; he shares light into what employees may deem as controversial, but what benefits employers, […]
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