<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1624796D%20CH%20Equity","_id":"00000190-46e2-d497-a7fb-eeef936a0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Binance’s General Counsel Eleanor Hughes has a lot to keep her busy, ranging from the giant crypto exchange’s testy dispute with Nigerian officials to strict monitoring by US authorities as part of a landmark <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"S4HQUFDWX2PS","_id":"00000190-46e2-d497-a7fb-eeef936a0001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">plea deal.

<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"00000190-3c41-d497-a7fb-fc4d4f010000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Cameron and <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"00000190-3c41-d497-a7fb-fc4d4f010001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Tyler Winklevoss were refunded after their Bitcoin donations to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign exceeded the maximum amount allowed under federal law.

Two US lawmakers who visited a jailed <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1624796D%20CH%20Equity","_id":"00000190-3bd5-d497-a7fb-ffdd83420000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Binance Holdings Ltd. executive in Nigeria said he is in poor health and asked the American embassy to seek a humanitarian release even as local authorities press on with a fraud trial against him.

Ripple Labs Inc. beat a crypto buyer’s allegations that it violated federal securities law with unregistered sales of its XRP token.

Benjamin Brickner has joined Pierson Ferdinand as a partner in the corporate department, the firm said Thursday.

Standard Chartered Plc is setting up a trading desk for Bitcoin and Ether, people familiar with the matter said, making it one of the first global banks to enter spot cryptocurrency trading.

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<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://screens/COUN%20FR%20RISK","_id":"00000190-4733-d497-a7fb-ef3fdf170000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">France’s leftist alliance would raise the top marginal income tax rate to 90% if it were to take over the government following legislative elections that run through July 7.

A new minimum wage for California health care workers will be delayed until at least Oct. 15 under an agreement between state legislators and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

An Indian tax panel will begin talks on rate rationalization under the Goods and Services Tax beginning August, Federal Finance Minister <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"00000190-4737-d497-a7fb-ef3fdcab0000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Nirmala Sitharaman said Saturday.

France’s billionaire Saade family spent more than four decades discreetly building a global shipping empire from their base in the southern city of Marseille. The late founder mostly shirked elite Parisian social circles and the publicity that comes with politics.

A business owned by prominent Atlanta executive Richard Jackson owes $38 million in taxes and penalties because it underreported $72 million in taxable income for 2019, the IRS told the US Tax Court Friday.

A former executive producer for a Turkish-owned broadcasting company has a second chance to pursue her unpaid wages suit, a federal judge said Friday.

The Justice Department has secured a settlement agreement with online staffing agency eTeam Inc. resolving the department’s determination that eTeam discriminated against non-US citizens with permission to work in the United States by excluding them from job opportunities based on their citizenship or immigration status, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the agency announced Thursday.

The week in state tax news: Special legislative sessions in Kansas and Arkansas produced income tax cuts, with lawmakers responding to two very different governors’ positions. Meanwhile, California’s Supreme Court dealt anti-tax activists a major blow by throwing their initiative off November’s ballot, and sponsors of a New York bill to provide a business-friendly deadline extension for the SALT-cap workaround aim to push for the measure next year.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services updated its email address and changed the website login link for E-Verify, according to two June 18 announcements.

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. pilots who say the airline ran afoul of California minimum wage and overtime laws asked a federal judge to sign off on a $16.65 million deal to resolve the suit.

The Australian Official Gazette June 17 published a legislative instrument increasing the deduction rate for work-related car expenses to A$0.88 (US$0.59) per kilometer, from A$0.85 (US$0.57) per kilometer, for income ...

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Half the Cabinet, minus Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, joined donors at the Tory summer party at London’s elite Hurlingham Club on Thursday night. Amid the gathering political gloom, bigwigs made an early dash for the exit, although the host for the evening, Home Secretary James Cleverly, strutted his stuff on the dance floor. Attending as a guest, I had a sense of history in the making — waltzing in the ballroom on the Titanic as it began to sink.

Travis Logghe has joined Fredrikson & Byron as an officer in its business & tax planning, private equity, and mergers & acquisitions groups, the firm said Thursday.

Moore v. United States, Thursday’s decision by the US Supreme Court on the Mandatory Repatriation Tax, would seem to affect relatively few taxpayers. But in rejecting a constitutional challenge to the MRT (as it’s known), the justices might have scattered some breadcrumbs about their attitudes toward a potentially more sweeping wealth tax.

Baker McKenzie’s Imke Gerdes and Richard Fletcher examine the OECD’s new Amount B transfer pricing guidance, saying it confirms the rules’ fundamentals but doesn’t address optionality.

Olshan’s Frome Wolosky’s Adrienne Ward and Katherine Mateo explain how small and mid-sized firms can step up to advance DEI efforts and hire more people of color.