Saturday, 11th October 2008

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  1. Goldman triumphs at Advisory Awards

    Advisers to Europe's buyout community gathered at Banqueting ... The awards, which recognised the achievements of advisers ... Melissa Rice, a vice-president in Goldman’s financial sponsor ... Goldman also shared the award for Buyside Mandate ... Sellside mandate of the year went to Lehman...

  2. Street firms accused of tax scheme

    Some of the US' biggest investment banks and ... The year-long probe, which relied in part on ... Some of the internal emails show that bank ... The report is scheduled to be released Thursday ... The report is critical not only of banks ... Foreign investors, such as offshore hedge funds, are...

  3. Henderson not alone in mulling tax move

    Henderson Global Investors is not the only asset ... Henderson, one of London's largest listed asset management ... These deferments allowed it to pay a tax-rate ... However, at the time of its report Roger ... Henderson is not the only company to have ... Others to have mulled it include Aberdeen Asset...

  4. UK Revenue to launch new crackdown on offshore accounts

    UK offshore bank account holders who haven’t revealed ... A spokesman from the Revenue said: “Revenue & ... The Revenue is believed to be in touch ... The spokesman was not willing to reveal the ... Under UK law the Revenue can apply to ... “Although the Revenue has no sanctions over foreign...

  5. Tax havens get an altered image

    Offshore locations are striving, with some success, to ... Over the past year there was an 11% ... The initiative follows a toughening of attitudes by ... In October 2006, all offshore locations were declared ... The effect of the task force blacklist was ... Jurisdictions were listed because they showed an unwillingness...

  6. Guy Hands fights £17m tax loss from film investment scheme

    Guy Hands, the chief executive of UK buyout ... Hands is one of 75 investors who claim ... The investors were encouraged to invest in a ... However, Hands said he had to repay more ... Through a company called Little Wing Films, Hands ... Giving evidence yesterday, Hands said in a witness...

  7. Wealthy Russians moving away from offshore tax havens

    Offshore tax heavens are losing their attraction for ... Last week the European Union got tough on ... MDM bank chairman Oleg Vyugin, who pioneered Russian ... Claus Korner, chief executive of Glitnir Private Banking,...

  8. For sale: tax haven

    One of the eight Channel Islands, part of ... Herm Island is being sold by owners Adrian ... The asking price for the 40-year lease includes ... Guernsey-based Martel Maides is the estate agent running ... "As well as a fine home at the ... However, the lighter-touch tax benefits that the buyers...

  9. Swiss private banker blows whistle on banking secrecy laws

    Rudolf Elmer, a former manager with Julius Baer, ... Elmer told reporters in Berlin the Swiss banking ... The complaint is significant in light of Germany's ... Elmer said he also has information on alleged ... He said he would present the Strasbourg-based court...

  10. Top UBS private banker detained by US authorities in tax probe

    A senior banker at UBS has been detained ... Martin Liechti, the Zurich-based head of North and ... One senior bank employee was “briefly detained” by ... UBS also confirmed that it was also being ... The bank said it was co-operating with the...

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