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Law & professional services

  • Finally, the inheritance tax system is getting cleaned up – here’s what you need to know

    November 28, 2018

    Inheritance tax (IHT) is not a modern phenomenon – in fact, the first “death tax” dates back to the late 1700s. Since then, IHT has been tweaked and amended, adding layer upon layer of rules. Now, in 2018, we’re caught in a system that is ridiculously confusing, riddled with legacy issues, and in desperate need [...]

  • Shipping executives convicted in North Sea oil bribery scheme

    November 27, 2018

    Two former executives of shipping company FH Bertling have been convicted for their part in a corrupt scheme to win a ConocoPhillips freight forwarding contract worth over £16m as part of a North Sea exploration project. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said today that Stephen Emler and Giuseppe Morreale had pleaded guilty to their part in [...]

  • BDO’s Paul Eagland on why his firm is Aim-ing for the top

    November 27, 2018

    It’s a bold time to make a merger in the audit sector, but with market reforms and Brexit on the horizon, BDO’s Paul Eagland sees that there can be strength in numbers. Yesterday, the professional services group – currently the sixth-largest in the UK – confirmed it is in “advanced talks” to merge with ninth-place [...]

  • Mayfair art dealer Mark Weiss gets green light to inspect Sotheby’s exchange over $10.7m fake Frans Hals painting

    November 26, 2018

    A Mayfair art dealer who is locked in a legal battle with Sotheby's over a fake Frans Hals painting today won the right to inspect internal documents shared between the auction house and art experts. The New York-based auction house is suing Mark Weiss Ltd for repayment of the $10.7m (£8.3m) selling price after the painting, purported [...]

  • Boss says BDO still on the lookout for deals as it confirms ‘advanced’ merger talks with Moore Stephens

    November 26, 2018

    The managing partner of BDO said the firm is still on the lookout for further mergers and acquisitions, after it confirmed plans to join forces with audit sector rival Moore Stephens. The firms have confirmed they are in “advanced” merger talks, which they say would “improve competition and quality” at the top end of the audit [...]

  • Stress in the City: How the UK’s top law firms manage employee wellbeing

    November 26, 2018

    The legal world has been rocked by the recent suicide of a US partner which has led to an examination of the high-stress, long-hours culture prevalent in elite law firms. The widow of Sidley Austin partner Gabe MacConaill, who killed himself last month, wrote a heartbreaking open letter in the American Lawyer magazine detailing the [...]

  • BDO and Moore Stephens merger will create Britain’s fifth-largest accountancy firm

    November 25, 2018

    BDO is preparing to merge with smaller accountancy rival Moore Stephens, in a move that will create a new fifth-largest auditor in the UK, bumping Grant Thornton off the spot. Partners at BDO, which currently holds the number six position, has approved a merger with Moore Stephens, currently the ninth-largest professional services firm in Britain, [...]

  • Big Four investigate their own clients on behalf of software giants

    November 23, 2018

    The UK's top four accounting firms have been accused of a conflict of interest by investigating their own clients' use of software on behalf of technology firms. The so-called Big Four – PwC, KPMG, EY and Deloitte – carry out software audits on their clients on behalf of vendors such as Microsoft, SAP and IBM to see if firms [...]

  • Johnston Press administrator says creditors will face a ‘significant’ cash shortfall

    November 23, 2018

    The administrator of struggling publishing company Johnston Press has said there will be “a significant shortfall” of money for creditors after being sold out of pre-pack administration last week. Alix Partners, the company’s administrators, warned in their first report that although funds would be available to secured bondholders and to unsecured creditors, there would still [...]

  • Breaking up is hard to do, so why not put a ring on audit?

    November 23, 2018

    Never have there been more eyes on audit. Sir John Kingman is examining the Financial Reporting Council and how audit can best be regulated. The Competition and Markets Authority is investigating competition and choice in the listed audit market. The BEIS Select Committee announced last week that it too will scrutinise audit, and the Audit [...]

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