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Corporate Counsel

When It Comes to Anti-Money Laundering, Challenges Abound for Compliance Pros

A number of the respondents to a recent AML survey didn't even know if they had experienced a regulatory action at their company in this space. That seems to point to trouble.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

SEC's Cyber Breach Report Too Little, Too Late, Experts Say

"What a doozy!" said one expert of the breach disclosed by the SEC this week.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fired UBS Adviser Reignites Palm Beach Scandal Over Rich Widow

"Holy crap!" That's how Craig Price, a UBS AG senior vice president, told securities regulators he reacted when he saw the $2,600 tab for a client-development dinner he attended at an upscale Palm Beach restaurant. It wasn't the size of the bill that stunned him. It was who paid for it — an ailing, 90-year-old UBS client.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Kurz Real Estate Broker Stumbles Upon Rare Portfolio in Miami

Erick Vargas of Kurz Real Estate Corp. introduced his client to a rare real estate opportunity in Miami-Dade County: a 35-property portfolio he happened to stumble upon.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Yenchi v. Ameriprise Financial, Inc., PICS Case No. 17-0964 (Pa. June 20, 2017) Donohue, J., Todd, J. (dissenting) (25 pages).

Superior Court erred in reversing the trial court's grant of summary judgment to defendants on whether there was a fiduciary relationship between the parties because a fiduciary relationship arose in the context of consumer transactions only if one party ceded decision-making authority to the other party and that did not occur in this case. Reversed in part.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

ONE Sotheby's Takes Over Turnberry International Realty

ONE Sotheby's International Realty purchases the Aventura brokerage with 100 agents.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Chaborek v. Allstate Financial Services, LLC, et al, PICS Case No. 17-0945 (E.D. Pa. June 5, 2017) McHugh, J. (9 pages).

Plaintiff sufficiently plead at least two potentially successful claims against defendants for fraud and negligent misrepresentation; therefore, defendants failed to satisfy their heavy burden of persuading the court that plaintiff fraudulently joined them as part of his lawsuit to defeat diversity jurisdiction. The court granted plaintiff's motion to remand.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Virtual Currency 'Miners' Ordered to Pay $12.4 Million

A Ponzi scheme involving online currency has come to a crashing halt with two Connecticut technology companies hit with a $12.4 million default judgment.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Colliers Matches Buyer to Unlisted Apartment Complex

Larry Stockton was able to persuade longtime owners to sell a West Kendall apartment complex for $61 million.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Winston House, LLC v. W.G.L. Ltd. Partnership, PICS Case No. 17-0723 (C.P. Monroe Feb. 23, 2017) Williamson, J. (5 pages).

A claim against a limited partnership was barred because it was not brought within two years of the dissolution of the partnership. Plaintiff's breach of contract claims against the limited partners did not allege knowing participation in wrongful conduct, so the court dismissed those claims.
3 minute read

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