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Charles Russell wins exclusive Premiership Rugby adviser role
Charles Russell has seen off competition from 34 law firms to win a first-time appointment as the exclusive regulatory legal adviser for Premiership Rugby. The firm has been appointed for a two-year term as of last month, with a mandate to look aft...
03 Feb 2012 | 00:00
Jones Day and Covington recruit for London white collar crime teams
Jones Day and Covington & Burling have become the latest US law firms to bolster their white collar investigations practices in London, making hires from the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Baker Botts respectively. Jones Day is bringing in Glyn Pow...
02 Feb 2012 | 06:34
Herbert Smith and Dutton advise as watchdog hands PwC record fine
Herbert Smith, Fountain Court and Five Paper Buildings have taken roles on a high-profile action against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) that has seen the accounting giant fined £1.4m. The proceedings were launched by the Accountancy & Actuarial Disc...
06 Jan 2012 | 16:20 | 
SRA unveils ABS application process as around 15 put in for first licences
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has released new information on the application process to become an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) as the regulator began accepting licence applications today (3 January). The Co-operative and Irwin ...
03 Jan 2012 | 16:04 |
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Taylor Wessing adds partner to data protection team with Speechly hire
Taylor Wessing has expanded its data protection team with the hire of Speechly Bircham partner Vinod Bange. Bange, who specialises in data protection and privacy laws, information security legal risk, corporate compliance and technology law, has be...
03 Jan 2012 | 14:05 |
City finance partners criticise FSA calls to hold bank directors personally liable for failures
City finance lawyers have questioned a call by the chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to change the law in order to make is easier to hold directors and board members of failed banks personally liable for the consequences of their deci...
13 Dec 2011 | 10:49 |
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Solicitors Regulation Authority appoints new executive director
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has created a new senior management role which will see the body's director of policy and standards Richard Collins join its senior management team (SMT). The role of executive director will see Collins bec...
09 Dec 2011 | 14:45 |
Litigation and Regulatory Team of the Year: Wragge & Co
This was an extremely hard-fought category – but Wragge & Co won the day thanks to the versatility of competition partner Bernardine Adkins, who became the first solicitor to take a competition cartel case all the way to the courtroom. It a...
08 Dec 2011 | 00:00 |
Double jeopardy - finding a balance in enforcement actions for companies
Peter Herbel, Beat Hess and Massimo Mantovani on the need for a balance between anti-bribery enforcement and unfairly duplicated proceedings
24 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
Is it time to split the Law Society and the SRA?
We may be in an era of outcomes-focused regulation, but nobody thought to tell those who drew up the deal between the Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over their governance arrangements.
21 Nov 2011 | 11:20
Separating out legal and compliance functions – the view from America
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s new whistle-blower programme could cause headaches for GCs
10 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
Legal education review under scrutiny as profession awaits first progress report
"Even if the research team manages to make recommendations in time for the 2012 deadline, I am sure the regulators will drag their heels when it comes to implementation" - Cynics call for more progress on the review of legal education...
10 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
SRA puts forward new regulatory regime for international firms
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has proposed a new series of measures for the regulation of UK law firms' international activities. The SRA launched a consultation process yesterday (8 November) to gauge the profession's views on how to r...
09 Nov 2011 | 12:43 |
SRA to assign 'relationship managers' to biggest UK law firms in City push
The UK's largest law firms are set to receive individually tailored monitoring from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), as the regulator continues its efforts to tighten its links with City firms. In a report issued today (21 October), the S...
21 Oct 2011 | 12:18 |
Field Fisher votes in regulatory chief as new managing partner
Field Fisher Waterhouse has elected a new managing partner, with the firm's head of regulatory Matthew Lohn replacing Moira Gilmour in the role. Lohn was elected to the role following a contested vote that also saw technology and outsourcing head M...
20 Oct 2011 | 09:00 |
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