09/05/2017
Linklaters and Ashurst lead on £3bn Anglo-French software merger
Pair advise as Schneider Electric rekindles merger talks with UK software company Aveva
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
09/04/2017
Slater and Gordon to break away from its UK operations
Slater and Gordon has broken off all ties with its ill-fated UK business after it handed over operations of its UK division to its senior lenders, led by the hedge fund Anchorage Capital Group. The move has come as part of a second recapitalisation plan
09/04/2017
Research and Mifid II: Better quality, lower cost
Regulators hope that Mifid II’s introduction in January will enhance investor protection through the unbundling of the costs associated with fund management.
09/04/2017
Foreign banks face new EU set-up to allow more scrutiny
The commission, which is the EU's executive, has now fleshed out its thinking and has made a preliminary estimate that 19 foreign banks will have to set up an IPU.
09/01/2017
Herbert Smith Freehills - Financial regulation update
OJ: Commission Implementing Regulation for benchmarking portfolios and reporting instructions
09/01/2017
Meet the ex-banker jailed for fraud who is now trying to reform prisons from the inside out
He was sentenced to three years and four months, and was duly dispatched to Brixton prison.
09/01/2017
Paul Tweed to open doors of new boutique law firm in London, Dublin and Belfast
New firm, new challenge.
09/01/2017
Premier League footballers aim to score against Ingenious
Investors have all suffered significant financial losses as a result of these schemes being mis-sold to them
09/01/2017
Former Arsenal shareholder Lady Bracewell-Smith sues Linklaters
Magic circle firm faces professional negligence suit from former Arsenal shareholder
09/01/2017
FCA bans compliance officer over convictions
During the interview, Mr Lancelot stated that he deliberately failed to disclose the November 2006 and July 2012 convictions in the December 2015 and February 2016 application forms
08/31/2017
Donald Trump’s debt to Deutsche Bank
As others shied away, the German bank lent money for several projects. But the president and lender face increased scrutiny over their ties
08/31/2017
Brexit regulatory ‘logjam’ draws fund manager concern
Very soon what we’ll have is a regulatory logjam.
08/31/2017
Herbert Smith Freehills - Financial regulation update
FCA webpage on position limits for commodity derivative contracts
08/31/2017
Briton accused of cyber attacks extradited from Germany
The attack featured distributed denial of service assaults - when multiple infected computers bombarding a system to overwhelm its security and access information.
08/31/2017
Law Firm Expands Southeast Asia Presence
Stephenson Harwood is committed to Southeast Asia, and to growing our practice there.
08/31/2017
MiFID Leaves Researchers Scrambling for Growth That May Not Come
Researchers face unprecedented competition from banks
08/31/2017
EU facing 51 lawsuits worth BILLIONS of pounds for shutting down Spanish bank
The EU’s regulation agency forced the sale of the lender, then the sixth largest in Spain, to bigger rival Santander for the nominal price of one euro.
08/31/2017
German watchdog demands on-the-ground management for banks post-Brexit
Fearing a threat to financial stability, regulators want to prevent banks currently in London from setting up mere shells here that would allow them to be licensed for operating in the European Union.
08/31/2017
Consultative document on the implications of fintech for banks and supervisors issued by the Basel Committee
Banking standards and supervisory expectations should be adaptive to new innovations
08/30/2017
Advisers warned to face reality of tough new tax evasion law
If the senior management were uninvolved or unaware of the illegal activity.