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Samsung’s Mauro Porcini prepares for his ‘dream job’ as the company’s first-ever chief design officer

Samsung has turned to an outsider—Mauro Porcini—and asked him use his approach to design to help the Korean company keep ahead of its competitors.

Fortune

Samsung Chairman Jay Y Lee's Family Plans To Offload $1.2 Billion In Shares To Pay Massive $8 Billion Inheritance Tax

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (OTC:SSNLF) Chairman Jay Y Lee's mother and sisters plan to sell $1.2 billion worth of shares to cover a massive inheritance tax bill.

Benzinga

South Korean court clears Samsung chairman in merger fraud case

It removes a long-running legal risk for the head of the tech giant

The Independent UK

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Samsung heirs sell Seoul villa to pay South Korea’s largest-ever inheritance tax bill

Sale of £13m Itaewon property adds to Samsung family’s asset liquidation drive

The Independent UK

South Korean appeals court upholds acquittal of Samsung chief Lee

A South Korean appeals court has upheld a ruling that acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong of financial criminal charges over a contentious merger between Samsung affiliates that cemented his grip over the biggest South Korean company

The Independent UK

Women Who Have Made Their Mark: 15 Richest Women Around the Globe And Their Sources Of Income

While women make up just 12.5 per cent of the 3,194 billionaires in the world, the number of self-made female billionaires is increasing.

International Business Times UK

South Korea court acquits Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong of financial crimes

The case is the latest episode in a scandal centred that has rocked the country.

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Samsung officially names third-generation heir Lee chairman

Samsung Electronics has officially appointed third-generation heir Lee Jae-yong as executive chairman, two months after he secured a pardon of his conviction for bribing a former president in a corruption scandal that toppled a previous South Korean government

The Independent UK

Samsung pardon exposes Koreans’ love-hate feelings for tycoons

Lee Jae-yong is the latest in a long list of South Korean business elites to receive clemency after white-collar crimes.

Al Jazeera

Investors Sell Samsung Shares Worth $1.1B In Block Deal: Reuters

Investors sold Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (OTC:SSNLF) shares worth about $1.1 billion in a block deal on March 24, Reuters reports. Kookmin Bank sold 19.9 million shares at a discount of 2.4% to the March 23 closing price. The share sale matched the amount that Hong Ra-hee, mother of Samsung Vice Chair Jay…

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