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New Zealand Law News – Chapman Tripp advises PGG Wrightson on $421m deal

New Zealand Law News, NZ Press Releases, Press Releases /

Chapman Tripp is advising PGG Wrightson (PGW) on its latest deal to sell its seed and grain business to leading global seeds group DLF Seeds for $421 million, announced yesterday [6 August]. The deal is conditional on, amongst other things, obtaining approvals from PGW’s shareholders, the Overseas Investment Office, the Commerce Commission and the Australian […]

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Class Actions Over Cryptocurrencies On The Rise

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Kramer Levin – After a surge in popularity and an increased interest from regulators, virtual currencies — also known as cryptocurrencies — have entered into a new phase in their relatively short history, with an increase in class actions targeting the emerging assets. The emergence of cryptocurrency class actions comes after the market witnessed a

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Here Comes Jack Nicol – The Lawyer Who Prefers Making Movies

New Zealand Law News /

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”101484″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_custom_heading text=”He may not be Jack Nicholson, but young kiwi lawyer Jack Nicol has been making his mark in the movie world with his first feature generating excitement.” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Jack Nicol’s first move is featured on the New Zealand International Film Festival  providing a spirited and entertaining look at female shearers headed

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How The Silence of the #Metoo Blogger Lead to Money Spent on the Super Injunction

New Zealand Law News, NZ Press Releases /

John Bowie – The young lawyer at the centre of the Law Society’s latest #Metoo mess, Canterbury law graduate Matt Taylor will hardly need any introduction when he knocks on law firm doors seeking a job, as report indicate he is doing. Taylor, a law blogger – yes, yet another – is the 23 year

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Law Society Statement Over #Metoo Email Blunder

New Zealand Law News, Press Releases /

The further #Metoo debacle encircling the Law Society has lead to a press statement today correcting any impression that there was an attempt to hide a breach of privacy. The situation with the so-called ‘super injunction’, the gag order legal device used in the UK and elsewhere to prevent embarrassing information becoming public. It is

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Managing Partner of Accounting Firm Pleads Guilty to False US Department of Labor Filings

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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael C. Mikulka, Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Region, U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General (“DOL-OIG”), and Thomas Licetti, Acting New York Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Labor-Employee Benefits Security Administration (“DOL-EBSA”), announced that SALVATORE ARMAO, the founder

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Why Would A Big Law Associate Swap A Lucrative Job To Bake Cakepops? Here’s Why

Career Advice, Lawyers /
Yael Krigman LawFuel

Why would Yael Krigman move from corporate law in New York to starting her own bakery? Simple, really. She loved baking and the law . ..? Well, not so much. She worked at her cake baking business and at law for a spell but working two, demanding jobs became too much.  Besides, while the law

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‘Corrupt Doctor’ Gets 18 Months Prison For $30 Million Medicare Fraud

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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that physician MUSTAK Y. VAID was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield to 18 months in prison for his participation in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the New York State Medicaid Program. VAID falsely

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