As the Covid vaccination programme steps up the pace Russell McVeagh has been one of the first firms to adopt a ‘jab only’ visitor policy, saying it will prevent anyone, clients, staff or visitors, from entering the firm premises from 1 November unless they have had both Covid vaccinations. The policy is the result of […]
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The process of buying a business is long and complicated. Transferring ownership of a company, for both purchaser and vendor, can involve a range of issues including matters like valuation, checking the finances and accounting records, negotiating the price for the business and handling the escrow at the termination of the sale process. A good
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Roger Partridge* -If Auckland takes the full eight weeks to work its way through the Government’s “three-step plan” for Alert Level 3, 1.6 million Kiwis will have endured one of the world’s most stringent lockdowns for more than half a year. Seven-and-a-half weeks at Levels 3 and 4 in March and April last year. Further
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Christian Rosa Weinberger, a/k/a “Christian Rosa,” Provided Fake Certificates of Authenticity for the Forged Pettibon “Wave Series” Paintings Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the
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EY Law has increased its Auckland-based legal team with the recruitment of former MinterEllisonRuddWatts partner Cameron Taylor. Taylor, a former Olympian has joined EY Law who are focused on expanding ‘their footprint’ in the New Zealand legal market. As well as the recruitment of Taylor, EY Law have also made Brendon Prebble, also a former
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LegalTech startup Law Vu has recruited a senior LinkedIn executive in a recruitment coup that will further help the startup’s rise. Greg Stephenson was North America’s marketing chief for Microsoft-owned LinkedIn who came to New Zealand because his Kiwi wife was keen to return. LawVu has been successfully fund-raising as LawFuel has reported and has
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Kirkland & Ellis moves to its new, state-of-the-art London office upon completion of the major development in the heart of London. A statement from the firm announced the move of 550 employees of the firm to the building at 40 Leadenhall Street, which the firm says will ‘showcase the expectations of a first class working
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LOS ANGELES – A West Covina man was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for laundering more than $900,000 in drug money over a two-year period via a “Black Market Peso Exchange” for Mexico-based drug traffickers. Oscar Sanchez, 52, was sentenced by United States District Judge Virginia A. Phillips. Sanchez pleaded guilty in
While bankruptcy is commonly understood in the general sense, many people fail to understand the several different types of bankruptcy and what those differences are. And what difference do different jurisdictions mean for bankruptcy chapters and terminology? The ‘chapters’ spoken about in this context is the section of the Bankruptcy Code that deals with bankruptcy
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US Big Law giant Quinn Emanuel’s UK chief Richard East has fired up – and fired back – at reports in UK legal media about recent departures from the firm, recently named as leader of the ‘Fearsome Four’ pack of the most feared law firms in the world. The row over departures related principally to
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