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Mossack Fonseca & Co. was a Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider.[1]

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  1. 62 relations: Admiralty law, Al Jazeera English, American Samoa, Antonio Banderas, Associated Press, BBC News, British Virgin Islands, Byte, Cambridge University Press, Cologne, Commerzbank, Corporate services, Courthouse News Service, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Defamation, Due diligence, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Forbes, Gary Oldman, Handelsblatt, Information security, Intellectual property, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, International sanctions, Isle of Man Examiner, Jake Bernstein (journalist), Jürgen Mossack, Jurisdiction, Know your customer, La Estrella de Panamá, La Prensa (Panama City), Law firm, Lázaro Báez, Leaktivism, Luxemburger Wort, Marc Harris, Money laundering, Netflix, Niue, Offshore company, Offshore financial centre, Operation Car Wash, Panama City, Panama Papers, Petrobras, Ramón Fonseca Mora, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Scott Z. Burns, Steven Soderbergh, Switzerland, ... Expand index (12 more) »

  2. 1977 establishments in Panama
  3. 2018 disestablishments in Panama
  4. Companies based in Panama City
  5. Law firms disestablished in 2018
  6. Law firms established in 1977
  7. Offshore law firms
  8. Panama Papers

Admiralty law

Admiralty law or maritime law is a body of law that governs nautical issues and private maritime disputes.

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Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.

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American Samoa

American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean.

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Antonio Banderas

José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (born 10 August 1960), better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish actor and filmmaker.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla.

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Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Commerzbank

The Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft (shortly known as Commerzbank AG or Commerzbank) is a European banking institution headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.

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Corporate services

Corporate services or business services are activities which combine or consolidate certain enterprise-wide needed support services, provided based on specialized knowledge, best practices, and technology to serve internal (and sometimes external) customers and business partners.

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Courthouse News Service

Courthouse News Service is an American news service primarily focusing on civil litigation.

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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (born Cristina Elisabet Fernández, 19 February 1953), often referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015 and later as vice president of Argentina from 2019 to 2023 under President Alberto Fernández, as well as the first lady of Argentina during the tenure of her husband, Néstor Kirchner, from 2003 to 2007.

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Defamation

Defamation is a communication that injures a third party's reputation and causes a legally redressable injury.

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Due diligence

Due diligence is the investigation or exercise of care that a reasonable business or person is normally expected to take before entering into an agreement or contract with another party or an act with a certain standard of care.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Gary Oldman

Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker.

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Handelsblatt

The Handelsblatt (literally "commerce paper" in English) is a German-language business newspaper published in Düsseldorf by Handelsblatt Media Group, formerly known as Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt.

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Information security

Information security, sometimes shortened to infosec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.

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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Inc. (ICIJ), is an independent global network of 280 investigative journalists and over 140 media organizations spanning more than 100 countries. Mossack Fonseca and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists are Panama Papers.

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International sanctions

International sanctions are political and economic decisions that are part of diplomatic efforts by countries, multilateral or regional organizations against states or organizations either to protect national security interests, or to protect international law, and defend against threats to international peace and security.

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Isle of Man Examiner

The Isle of Man Examiner is a newspaper in the Isle of Man.

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Jake Bernstein (journalist)

Jake Bernstein is an American investigative journalist and author.

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Jürgen Mossack

Jürgen Rolf Dieter Mossack (born 20 March 1948) is a German-born Panamanian lawyer and the co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, a former law firm headquartered in Panama City which had more than 40 offices worldwide.

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Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction (from Latin juris 'law' + dictio 'speech' or 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice.

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Know your customer

Know Your Customer (KYC) guidelines and regulations in financial services require professionals to verify the identity, suitability, and risks involved with maintaining a business relationship with a customer.

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La Estrella de Panamá

La Estrella de Panamá is the oldest daily newspaper in Panamá.

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La Prensa (Panama City)

La Prensa is a conservative Panamanian newspaper founded in 1980.

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Law firm

A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law.

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Lázaro Báez

Lázaro Báez (born 11 February 1951) is an Argentine businessman.

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Leaktivism

Leaktivism is defined as the action of distributing confidential documents to the public in an attempt to directly impact the socio-economic and political spheres.

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Luxemburger Wort

Luxemburger Wort is a German-language Luxembourgish daily newspaper.

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Marc Harris

Marc Matthew Harris (born c. 1965) is a Panamanian accountant who was formerly active in the field of offshore financial services. Mossack Fonseca and Marc Harris are offshore finance.

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Niue

Niue (Niuē) is a self-governing island country in free association with New Zealand.

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Offshore company

The term "offshore company" or "offshore corporation" is used in at least two distinct and different ways. Mossack Fonseca and Offshore company are offshore finance.

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Offshore financial centre

An offshore financial centre (OFC) is defined as a "country or jurisdiction that provides financial services to nonresidents on a scale that is incommensurate with the size and the financing of its domestic economy." "Offshore" is not always literal since many Financial Stability Forum–IMF OFCs, such as Delaware, South Dakota, Singapore, Luxembourg and Hong Kong, are landlocked or located "onshore", but refers to the fact that the largest users of the OFC are non-residents, i.e. Mossack Fonseca and offshore financial centre are offshore finance.

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Operation Car Wash

Operation Car Wash (Operação Lava Jato), or Operation Jet Wash, was a landmark anti-corruption probe in Brazil.

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Panama City

Panama City, also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama.

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Panama Papers

The Panama Papers (Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016. Mossack Fonseca and Panama Papers are offshore finance.

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Petrobras

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., better known by and trading as the portmanteau Petrobras, is a state-owned Brazilian multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Ramón Fonseca Mora

Ramón Fonseca Mora (14 July 1952 – 8 May 2024) was a Panamanian novelist, lawyer and co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, a former law firm based in Panama with more than 40 offices worldwide.

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Süddeutsche Zeitung

The Süddeutsche Zeitung, published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany.

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Scott Z. Burns

Scott Z. Burns (born July 17, 1962) is an American filmmaker and playwright.

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Steven Soderbergh

Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tax evasion

Tax evasion is an illegal attempt to defeat the imposition of taxes by individuals, corporations, trusts, and others.

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Tax haven

A tax haven is a term, often used pejoratively, to describe a place with very low tax rates for non-domiciled investors, even if the official rates may be higher. Mossack Fonseca and tax haven are offshore finance.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, founded in 1976 and taking place each September.

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Trust company

A trust company is a corporation that acts as a fiduciary, trustee or agent of trusts and agencies. Mossack Fonseca and trust company are offshore finance.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Witness summons

A subpoena (also subpœna, supenna or subpena) or witness summons is a writ issued by a government agency, most often a court, to compel testimony by a witness or production of evidence under a penalty for failure.

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See also

1977 establishments in Panama

2018 disestablishments in Panama

  • Mossack Fonseca

Companies based in Panama City

Law firms disestablished in 2018

Law firms established in 1977

Offshore law firms

Panama Papers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossack_Fonseca

, Tax evasion, Tax haven, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, Toronto International Film Festival, Trust company, Variety (magazine), Venice Film Festival, Washington, D.C., Witness summons.