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Other Voices: Panama Papers (10m files dating as far back as the 1970s): Managing Corporate Risk and Uncertainty

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

From: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

On April 3, 2016, it became public that an anonymous source had leaked 11 million confidential documents, known as the "Panama Papers," belonging to the Panama-headquartered international law firm Mossack Fonseca. As more of the Panama Papers become public over the coming months, they will raise a host of issues for parties identified in the papers, as well as the business partners, customers, suppliers and other entities connected to those parties. This alert summarizes key legal issues for consideration as companies attempt to understand, assess and mitigate the potential impact and exposure of the Panama Papers on their business.

Background

The Panama Papers are said to comprise 4.8 million emails, 3 million database files and 2.1 million PDFs dating as far back as the 1970s and relating to companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, Panama, the Bahamas, Seychelles, Niue, Samoa, British Anguilla, Nevada, Hong Kong and other jurisdictions. The anonymous source is reported to have leaked the Panama Papers to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which shared the documents with the Washington, D.C.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). At this point, ICIJ has made a fraction of the Panama Papers available publicly and has given only select media organizations access to the full database of documents.

The Panama Papers have generated considerable media attention because of ......................

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