Business Crime Partner, Hannah Laming is presenting a breakout session at the Thomson Reuters Managing Risk Conference. Hannah’s session titled “Preparing for and Managing Investigations and Dawn Raids”, will discuss the following: If a company comes under investigation by a regulator, what practical steps can it take to protect itself and its reputation? Putting in […]
Anna contributes to a discussion of recent suggestions that EU blocking legislation may be invigorated if US sanctions against Iran are re-introduced. Read more here.
Peters & Peters continue to act for the MOL Group, the Hungarian national energy company and one of the largest companies in Central and Eastern Europe, in its long running dispute with the Croatian Government over INA, Croatia’s national oil company. Croatia initiated arbitration proceedings in 2014 seeking the annulment of agreements which transferred management […]
Peters & Peters continue to act for the MOL Group, the Hungarian national energy company and one of the largest companies in Central and Eastern Europe, in its long running dispute with the Croatian Government over INA, Croatia’s national oil company. Croatia initiated arbitration proceedings in 2014 seeking the annulment of agreements which transferred management […]
Partner Jason Woodland and Associate Amy Harvey both chaired panel sessions at the UIA congress “Litigating Catastrophes: Handling High-Stakes Litigation/Disasters over Air, Land and Sea”. Amy moderated “Planning for and Responding to a Disaster”, whilst Jason “Litigation Cases in Canada”. Read the full program here. For any further information please contact Jason and/or Amy.
Jason Woodland among other civil litigation experts took part in the annual Law Society Gazette roundtable. Coverage of this discussion can be read here along with comments from Jason.
Recent legislation has widened the pool of ‘high risk’ customers, not limited to Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and persons designated as targets of financial sanctions. Dr Anna Bradshaw discusses how strengthened due diligence obligations and regulatory reporting standards combine to increase the number of customers who may find themselves ‘unbankable’. For further information, read Anna’s […]
Hannah Laming highlights the need for a Private Prosecutions code of conduct in order to ensure the same fairness and integrity as public prosecutions. Read the full article published by The Law Society Gazette here. Hannah co-authored this article with Annabel Kerley of EY and vice chair of the PPA.
Dr Anna Bradshaw speaks to the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) about the proposals in the recently published Bill on post-Brexit legislation on financial and trade sanctions, and post-Brexit legislation on money laundering and terrorist financing. Read here.
Stuart Scott, former HSBC Holdings PLC’s Head of Currency Trading faces his extradition hearing this week, in which he is contesting extradition to the U.S over allegations that he used insider knowledge to “front-run” a currency deal. Bloomberg reports that Stuart Scott’s former boss (who is currently on trial in the US and faces the […]
