04/27/2012
Watson, whose start date has not yet been decided, will join BLP after 14 years in the partnership at Linklaters. She has been at the magic circle firm since joining as a trainee in 1990.
04/27/2012
He was previously a partner in Allen & Overy’s structured finance group
04/26/2012
The CA's freeze order was in response to an ex-parte petition filed by Philippine Anti-Money Laundering Agency, from which the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) sought assistance.
04/26/2012
Britain's top banks such as Barclays, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland have already been warned by investors to rein in excessive pay at a time of shrinking rewards for shareholders.
04/26/2012
The regulator has published its final guidance on traded life policy investments this morning, following an earlier guidance consultation in November.
04/26/2012
The European Parliament and the bloc's member states are approving a reform of securities trading rules known as MiFID, with specific elements curbing high-frequency trading (HFT).
04/26/2012
It also calls for the EU to drop the proposed “OTF” trading venue category, which risks opening the door to regulatory arbitrage.
04/25/2012
Senior executives from commodity trading group Glencore and brewer SAB Miller appeared to resist calls by campaign groups and development agencies for more transparency.
04/25/2012
The majority of those named will be informed via postal mail, although the 19,101 where only an email address is given can expect a heads-up from the FSA to drop into their email in-box in the next few weeks.
04/24/2012
This year's promotions round marks an increase on 2011-12, when 18 lawyers were made up. Last year six were also promoted in London.
04/24/2012
Firms lost hundreds of thousands and even millions of pounds in costs they claim they were never warned about.
04/24/2012
Two men and a woman have been jailed for a fraud where more than £4 million was taken from private investors through share-pushing operations based in Spain and Ireland. Another man will be sentenced at a later date.
04/23/2012
International business law firm Lawrence Graham will promote four London-based lawyers to its partnership on 1 May 2012.
04/23/2012
Linklaters and Bird & Bird are among the first major firms to nominate new compliance officers, as the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has given UK law firms until 31 July to appoint someone to take responsibility for the firm's legal pract
04/23/2012
Scottish private client firm launches Glasgow base
The private client specialist, which already has offices in Edinburgh, London, Guernsey and Geneva, has revealed that it is in advanced negotiations to sign a lease on a site close to George Square.
04/23/2012
Move follows the cancellation of permissions of a number of advisers over failure to pay regulatory fees.
04/23/2012
Switzerland has decided to give in to demands by Britain to modify a planned bilateral tax treaty, after continued opposition to the accord.
04/23/2012
"We filed a complaint against Societe Generale today for obtaining a verdict under false pretences," David Koubbi, Kerviel's lawyer, told Europe 1 radio on Friday.
04/23/2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged twin brothers from the U.K. with defrauding approximately 75,000 investors through an Internet-based pump-and-dump scheme in which they touted a fake “stock picking robot” that purportedly i
04/23/2012
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has lost a test case involving UBS in which it tried for the first time to punish a senior manager for inadequate supervision rather than for errors he personally committed.