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US invaders back on the offensive
The number of partner promotions in the City offices of US law firms is on track to exceed last year's tally, with 33 new partners made up in London in 2011 so far out of a global promotions total of 382. Legal Week's annual survey of US firms' lat...
01 Mar 2011 | 07:49 | 
Insolvency: The beautiful game?
The last few years have been turbulent for football club finances. In particular, 2010 has seen football clubs hit the headlines for the wrong reasons once again, and issues of football club insolvency have received significant press attention. Be ...
30 Jul 2010 | 09:13 |
Media and sport: A virtual black hole
The pace of change in the social media arena is outstripping any risk management capability and with anyone able to publish online, law firms are seeing a new area of work developing. Gregor Pryor and Sachin Premnath report
08 Dec 2009 | 07:10 |
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Public and regulatory law: The good Bad Bank Act
Work has started after the German Federal Cabinet passed its draft of the Bad Bank Act. The intention is to relieve the banks from toxic assets in nine steps, but the next monster is already lurking: the consolidation bank.
18 Jun 2009 | 09:38 |
EU/Competition: Seeking guidance
The European Commission is currently reviewing the procedures for the assessment of horizontal cooperation agreements (that is, cooperation agreements between actual or potential competitors) under the EC competition rules. The review presents an impo...
12 Feb 2009 | 02:10 |
Banking: Stabilising the German market
In early October, the German Government started work on a stabilisation programme, deciding to guarantee all private customer deposits at banking institutions without limit. The programme came into force on 18 October, under the Financial Market Stabi...
11 Dec 2008 | 03:00 |
Germany: A missed opportunity
Although Germany's new private equity investment laws are welcome, a fragmented legal framework means the country's lawmakers have missed the opportunity to establish a coherent venture capital market
31 Jul 2008 | 03:15 |
Technology, media and telecoms: The convergence challenge
In a sector that loves buzz words, acronyms and catchy straplines, it could be easy to get caught up in whichever interpretation of convergence is most prevalent at any given moment. Drop the word into conversation at trendy membership clubs such as S...
05 Jun 2008 | 03:04 |
Professional Negligence: Same horse, different rider?
The fallout from the subprime crisis which began in the US is rarely out of the news. As lenders keep an anxious eye on their loan books, there are dire warnings of a property crash. Minds are inevitably cast back to the early 1990s, when the last cra...
20 Mar 2008 | 02:05 |
Editor's Comment: No guarantees
With slower markets, 2008 will be the year when law firms start thinking again in earnest about partner and team recruitment. After several years when the biggest challenge was getting enough associates to staff the deals, minds are turning once more ...
07 Feb 2008 | 05:40 |
Germany: Car share
On 23 October this year, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declared that the Volkswagen Act was not in line with European law, a decision which ratified an investigation initiated by the European Commission against the Federal Republic of Germany (F...
13 Dec 2007 | 00:03 |
Financial services: Boiling over
Boiler rooms are illegal offices which seek out consumers through unsolicited phone calls or circulars, promoting and selling overpriced, non-existent or non-tradeable shares. The boiler rooms then often vanish, leaving investors reeling from financia...
22 Nov 2007 | 00:04 |
US firms in London: The right fit
At the time of the near-unanimous 'yes' vote to merge with Reed Smith in June 2006, the Richards Butler board was well experienced in dealing with diverse management challenges. Strategic business planning and analysis, client development and brand di...
20 Sep 2007 | 01:59 |
Data protection: Clarity for data laws
The decision of the Court of Appeal in Johnson v Medical Defence Union (MDU) [2007] has established a limit on the extent to which data protection principles will be allowed to affect decision-making processes that involve a mix of human judgement and...
13 Sep 2007 | 01:03 |
Finance: Bloc investment
While much of the global business community continues to focus its expansion and investment activity on the dynamic growth of the Chinese and Indian economies, another economic success story continues to unfold slightly closer to home. Growth of Centr...
12 Jul 2007 | 03:03 |
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