To highlight the firm`s recent professional successes, it should be noted that last year, due to the political situation in Belarus, BDO Law, in collaboration with BDO Latvia, opened a Belarusian office to help Belarusian companies expand into the Latvian or European market. The development and improvement of such a service line offered the opportunity to expand the spectrum of existing customers and start a fruitful cooperation with Belarusian companies. The firm`s practice team has offered a wide range of legal and financial services – from relocation and immigration to business start-up, internal document preparation and legal assistance, in cooperation with authorities and obtaining start-up status. The Belarusian office enabled BDO Law to provide legal assistance to IT companies. The company`s professionals work hard to understand their clients` activities and ensure that the company tailors both its service offering and its employees to their complex individual needs. The company believes that access to experienced professionals who are actively engaged in managing their legal, tax and business issues is the most reliable way to provide exceptional service, always with a focus on trust and transparency. Main areas of activity: The firm provides effective transactional legal advice and represents clients in a wide range of matters arising in connection with business activities in Latvia. BDO Law has a team of professionals with experience, expertise and references in delivering projects in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, regulatory expectations and industry best practices. The firm`s directly relevant experience comes from conducting independent audits for various institutions of different sizes and complexities in close collaboration with their colleagues at BDO Network. The law firm stands out for its significant expertise in taxation, banking and finance, business and dispute resolution, which is reinforced by other extensive practices – competition, intellectual property, data protection, employment, public procurement and real estate. The firm`s lawyers have a strong academic background as well as in-depth knowledge of the industry in all areas of the firm`s practice.
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We do not represent that the material on this website is appropriate or available for use in other locations. Persons who access this website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. In 1950, L. William Seidman joined the firm and eventually became its managing partner before entering government service, primarily as president of the FDIC. [5] A group of government employees in D.C. had embezzled funds by fraudulently writing cheques to their friends for property tax refunds. BDO Seidman was the independent auditor of the DC government`s financial records. On November 21, 2007, Reuters wrote: “Washington, D.C., officials should resolve the issues identified in an audit that found the city had mistreated millions of dollars, according to Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents the United States. Capital at the Congress. The audit, conducted by accounting firm BDO Seidman, LLP, found that financial reports from the city`s school system and Medicaid programs did not match their degrees, making both areas vulnerable to fraud. In total, the auditors found more than 160 cases in which the city did not meet the conditions for issuing federal funds, mainly due to misrepresentation of funds and mismanagement of money.
As of November 2007, it was estimated that more than $30 million had been scammed by tax officials in Washington, D.C., since 1999. At the height of the scam, half of the property tax refund cheques were fraudulent. The average legitimate cheque was less than $10,000, while the average fraudulent cheque was over $300,000. The scandal could also affect BDO Seidman, a private accounting firm that gave Gandhi [Natwar, Washington D.C.`s chief financial officer] Gandhi his seal of approval earlier this year. His listeners received millions to browse the city`s books and gave Gandhi`s office an unqualified opinion. [Citation needed] In 2010, a woman with mental illness who was not a DC employee was able to exploit a security breach in DC`s financial systems to file tax returns requiring $19.1 million in refunds, but these were stopped. [relevant?] [8] Firm Overview: BDO Law is an independent, growing and developing law firm that provides advice on all aspects of business law in Latvia and is part of BDO Latvia and BDO, an international network of audit, tax and advisory firms, BDO member firms, who provide professional services under the BDO name. The acclaimed company is known for its strength in tax advice, corporate and commercial law, banking and financial matters.