HMRC tax dispute with EY over Tory donor’s affairs on hold for settlement talks May 24, 2024 HMRC's tax dispute with accounting firm EY and Jamie Ritblat, a British property investor and Tory donor, has been placed on hold as settlement talks take place, City A.M. has learned.
Philips shares and profits up as investors dismiss £575m sleep device recall bill April 24, 2023 Philips shares jumped 13 per cent on Monday as the Dutch health technology company reported much better than expected first-quarter results and said it had set aside €575 million ($631 million) related to lawsuits over its recall of respiratory devices. Amsterdam-based Philips has been grappling with the fallout of the global recall of millions of respirators used to treat [...]
As The New York Times and OpenAI go to war, smaller publishers are being left behind February 28, 2024 As the landmark legal battle between The New York Times and OpenAI continues, the fate of smaller publishers is being ignored.
Shein continues to face copycat claims as it plots US listing February 2, 2024 Fast fashion giant Shein has reportedly been accused of breaching its own legal settlement and continuing to sell copycat products despite saying it would stop.
UBS embarks on its £11m legal fight against director of collapsed commodities trader March 12, 2024 UBS Switzerland’s £11m lawsuit against the director of a collapsed London-based commodities trader goes to trial. Anil Kumar was the director of London-based Vincom Commodities, a company that was placed into compulsory liquidation on 24 January 2018. The Swiss bank alleges that Kumar acted in breach of duty to Vincom by allowing it to enter [...]
KPMG’s Carillion settlement generates £7m profit for Aussie litigation funder February 20, 2023 An Australian litigation funder has more than doubled its money after giving Carillion’s liquidator millions to fight a £1.3bn lawsuit against KPMG. Litigation Capital Management (LCM) has generated more than £7m in profits after funding the claim brought by Carillion’s liquidator against the Big Four firm, the Aussie firm said today. LCM’s announcement comes [...]
Amazon hit with class-action lawsuit over ebook price-fixing January 15, 2021 Amazon has been slapped with a class-action lawsuit over accusations it colluded with publishers to fix ebook prices. The lawsuit, filed in a New York district court, alleges that Amazon and the so-called Big Five publishers — Penguin Random House, Hachette, Harper Collins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — agreed to price restraints that cause [...]
Now US shareholders sue beleaguered bank Credit Suisse for downplaying impact of losses March 17, 2023 US shareholders are suing Credit Suisse for giving false and misleading public statements and downplaying the impact of its losses, in the latest knock to the beleaguered bank. The Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, filed a class action lawsuit in New Jersey against the Swiss banking giant on behalf of investors. [...]
Google faces multi-state antitrust lawsuit for ‘anticompetitive conduct’ December 16, 2020 The Texas attorney general has announced he will file a multi state lawsuit against Google on behalf of a coalition of states. In a video posted on Twitter attorney general Ken Paxton said: ““The state of Texas is filing a multi state lawsuit against Google for anticompetitive conduct, exclusionary practices and deceptive misrepresentations. Google repeatedly [...]
UK app developers sue Apple for £785m over alleged App Store monopoly July 25, 2023 UK app developers are suing Apple, alleging that the company’s App Store holds an unfair monopoly. Brought before London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal by competition law expert Sean Ennis, the lawsuit represents over 1,500 mobile app developers who are seeking £785m in damages. Apple charges a 15-30 per cent commission on some payments made through the [...]