Sponsored briefing: Enforcement reimagined Guest Blog Chris Brennan follows on from his panel discussion at the Financial Services Regulation and Disputes Summit to explore the options…
Sponsored briefing: Financial litigation in India – An analysis of recent developments in insolvency law Guest Blog Daizy Chawla charts the progress of India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code ‘The Insolvency Code is a legislation which deals with…
Sponsored briefing: The end of Libor in Switzerland Guest Blog The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced on 27 July 2017 it would no longer require that banks that are…
Who Represents Who: The data behind the story David Burgess Barclays legal advisers, 2017 As Barclays conducts its latest panel review we look at which firms advised on the most…
Special territory: Fintech in Hong Kong Alex Speirs ‘You have to, to serve these markets, re-imagine how money can be managed and moved, because there’s going to be…
A decade since Lehman the profession still mired in the New Normal Alex Novarese Within days of this issue hitting desks, it will be ten years since Lehman Brothers’ collapse marked what swiftly became…
High (street) stakes as Gaucho collapses into administration and House of Fraser saga takes yet another twist Nathalie Tidman ‘There’s going to be a lot of distress on the high street,’ Weil, Gotshal & Manges partner Adam Plainer told…
Comment: A decade since Lehman the profession still mired in the New Normal Alex Novarese Within days of this issue hitting desks, it will be ten years since Lehman Brothers’ collapse marked what swiftly became…
Green investment – The colour of money Greg Hall Pressure for business to ‘go green’ has been building steadily for 20 years. What started as a minority concern has…
‘Benelux connection’: Fieldfisher expands European reach with Luxembourg office Tom Baker Newly-crowned Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2018, Fieldfisher has continued its campaign of geographical expansion…
Comment: Law firms will never just hand status to City women – they’ll have to take it Alex Novarese In a blow for traditionalists, our latest cover feature eschews profiling a group of hard-working, smart, highly-confident men who are talented…
Alphas – the hunt for female deal stars (and why it’s hard to be a City woman) Nathalie Tidman ‘You will have to go out and find the women – they won’t come to you,’ warns Travers Smith partner…
Milbank continues City hiring spree with Shearman high yield guru Gkoutzinis as Vinson nabs Jones Day finance partner Nathalie Tidman High-yield specialist Apostolos Gkoutzinis is to join Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy from US rival Shearman & Sterling, a move…
Magic Circle scrambles as UK construction giant Carillion falls into liquidation Marco Cillario A heavyweight line-up of Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Dentons, Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters have mobilised as construction…
Laying the foundations – lawyers scramble as demand for African infra booms Dominic Carman As the world’s largest continent, Africa covers 20% of global land area and 16% of the global population – currently…
Deal watch: Linklaters and White & Case in landmark Africa project as Slaughters and Macfarlanes lead on Cineworld takeover Marco Cillario UK-based deal specialists were busy this week advising on cross-border transactions spanning three continents. Linklaters and White & Case have…
Deutsche Bank names former Links veteran as new global law chief Kathryn McCann Deutsche Bank has appointed a new legal head, handing its chief compliance officer and head of global governance Florian Drinhausen…
Ashurst pulls the plug on ill-fated 2009 move into US finance law with NY restructuring Madeleine Farman Five New York-based partners left Ashurst in July for US finance firm Chapman and Cutler, with a sixth partner departing…
Client profile: David Fein, Standard Chartered Bank Legal Business The former law firm partner turned banking giant GC on his globally-demanding role As a former senior staffer in the…
‘Should be the end of the proposal’: Queen’s Speech reprieve for SFO as abolition move recedes Legal Business Theresa May’s Conservative manifesto pledge to subsume the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into the National Crime Agency (NCA) was absent…
