Securities Class Actions – Industry News

U.S. justices to hear Halliburton securities class action By Lawrence Hurley and Jonathan Stempel, Posted on Fox Business The U.S. Supreme Court, which in recent years has ruled for business in a string of high-profile cases, agreed on Friday to hear a case that could herald a dramatic decline in securities class action litigation. The case will…

Private HealthCare in Russia – Industry News

The future of the Russian private healthcare services market is very bright, By Alex Freedmann, Posted on The Russia Corporate World  Our expert in this industry report, Alla Anastos, the clinical director and implantologist at US Dental Care, shares her view about the current state of the Russian private healthcare services in general and her clinic…

Russia and CIS Private Equity – Industry News

Yuri Milner invests millions into GenapSys, Posted on Venture Capital Post Russian millionaire and venture capitalist Yuri Milner poured millions into genetics upstart GenapSys. The biotech company raised a total of USD47 million from the Series B funding round. This was according to a report published by VentureBeat. Milner aims to take advantage of the falling…

Financial Services – Weekly Industry News

New Regulations in UK Will Hurt Debt Collection Success, FICO Survey Finds, Posted on insideARM.com  New regulations being considered by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will drive up collection costs and hurt collection rates. That’s an early finding from a new study being released next month by FICO (NYSE:FICO), a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, and Market…

Transfer Pricing Ukraine

Ukraine: Government adopts transfer pricing (TP) secondary legislation, By CMS Cameron McKenna Olexander Martinenko and Andriy Buzhor, Posted on Lexology Following the introduction of new TP rules into the Tax Code of Ukraine from 01 September 2013 (see our law-now article dated 06 August 2013), the Government of Ukraine has adopted secondary legislation aiming to further specify and clarify…

Anti-Corruption – Industry News

Police seal off Dino Melaye’s anti-corruption conference, By Ogala Emmanuel, Posted on Premium Times Scores of armed police officers, on Tuesday sealed off a Nicon Luxury hotel conference room where an anti-corruption conference was planned.The anti-corruption conference was planned by an organization promoted by former House of Representatives member turned anti-corruption campaigner, Dino Melaye. The police arrived in the early hours…