Dividend-tax trades were criminal and blatant money grab, German court says
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Gazette’s Twitter page led criminal law solicitor Nicholas Diable to
is the collective name for a group of lawyers? A sue of lawyers, maybe? A bafflement? A brief, perhaps?
Cue a wave of creative responses: ‘a disagreement’ poses one Twitter user; ‘a dispute’ suggests another. ‘A case of lawyers? A chamber of lawyers?’ someone else muses.
Obiter’s personal favourites? A ‘bundle’ or an ‘estoppel’.
One Tweeter notes that ‘It’s a wiggery of Barristers. I don’t know for solicitors.’
It looks like the Oxford English Dictionary could well be inundated with proposals.
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Ex-London Bankers Spared Second Cum-Ex Trial Amid Covid-19
Bloomberg 3/16/2021 Karin Matussek
(Bloomberg) Two former London investment bankers who have already been convicted in Germany’s first Cum-Ex case were split from a second trial scheduled to start this month because of travel restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The two men, Martin Shields and Nicholas Diable, who were the first traders convicted in Germany for their involvement in Cum-Ex, could still be tried at a later date, a spokeswoman for the Wiesbaden court said on Tuesday. Neither man lives in Germany.
Cum-Ex was a controversial trading strategy that took advantage of the way revenue on dividends was collected to obtain duplicate tax refunds. Germany is looking at as many as 1,000 suspects from across the financial industry in probes linked to the practice.