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PCB Litigation News 2009
March
PCB Litigation reached confidential settlement on behalf of the Claimants to a multi-million dollar fraud and professional negligence claim against a prominent firm of city solicitors. That settlement followed numerous disclosure orders obtained by PCB in the months leading up to trial and the opening of the trial in which Counsel instructed on behalf of PCB explained how the disclosure had provided substantial evidence to advance the claims in intentional breach of fiduciary duty.
PCB Litigation have been retained on behalf of US clients to recover assets held in various jurisdzictions arising out odf a multi million dollar fraud.
PCB Litigation have been retained on behalf of a global corporation to resist substantial claims brought against them.
PCB Litigation have been retained to recover losses caused by the fraudulent misappropriation of funds paid to an investment broker.
PCB Litigation are currently advising on a multi-million dollar faud involving 4 jurisdictions.
On 20 March Anthony Riem wrote an article for the JIBLR on tax evasion.
PCB Litigation has been retained to act in a dispute regarding allegations that certain offshore financial products have been mis-sold by the issuer and broker.
PCB Litigation have been retained to advise on a dispute regarding the regulatory duties of directors.
On the 11 March The Times reported that PCB Litigation acted for a businessman who claimed that a consultant at law firm Hammonds advised him on a $14 million company purchase while simultaneously receiving secret payments to work for the seller.
PCB Litigation have been instructed to act in a claim against professional advisers where there are allegations of undue influence and abuse of confidence.
PCB Litigation have been retained to advise in relation to an alleged property investment fraud in Eastern Europe.
The recent allegations of fraud against Sir Allen Stanford, whether the attack on offshore havens means that that they will end and the ability of the Royal Bank of Scotland to clawback the pension it granted to Sir Fred Goodwin are 3 areas on which both Steven Philippsohn and Anthony Riem have been regularly quoted by a number of newspapers including the Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times in the last few days.
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