03/07/2014
Morgan Lewis hires Taylor Wessing partner to lead City PE group
Morgan Lewis today announced that accomplished private equity and investment funds lawyer Tom Cartwright has joined the firm as a partner in the Business and Finance Practice, resident in London.
03/07/2014
The recent re-codification of Czech civil law has introduced a new legal instrument called a trust fund or simply a trust.
03/06/2014
The challenges in the UK legal market highlighted in our previous surveys have taken a huge toll, so much so that medium term survival is not assured for some firms.
03/06/2014
This policy statement will interest firms that operate investment-based crowdfunding platforms
03/06/2014
Every year these payment systems process over 7 billion transactions, worth over £75 trillion. The FCA’s ‘call for inputs’ will help shape the focus of the new regulator’s work.
03/06/2014
Private banker jailed for stealing to fund addiction
An private banker who stole nearly £600,000 from wealthy clients to fund his gambling habit has been jailed for two years.
03/06/2014
The case comes after six senior employees from Brewin Dolphin’s own Leicester office, including former branch head Ed Cufflin, left the firm back in March 2013 to open a Charles Stanley base in the same location.
03/06/2014
The Financial Conduct Authority is to issue rules and regulation in order to protect entrepreneurs who seek crowd funding to finance their ideas and businesses.
03/06/2014
Investors contributing tiny sums could be faced with multiple pages of paperwork, company founder claims.New regulatory rules governing investment into ‘crowdfunding’ projects could effectively alienate the small-time investors the funding mec
03/05/2014
he European Union’s efforts to restrict the bonuses bankers receive are close to paying off.
03/04/2014
The Lincoln’s Inn firm will move to Bircham Dyson Bell’s Victoria offices on 1 April, when the merger takes effect
03/04/2014
The Corporate Advisers Rankings Guide lists institutional advisers and their quoted clients.
03/03/2014
he European Union's plan to bring euro zone bank supervision under one roof at the ECB aims to restore the region's banks to health after the financial crisis.
03/03/2014
The High Court last week rejected Barclays Bank’s application for summary judgment over the liability of a former partner of failed US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf for a capital loan made in his name.
03/03/2014
Linklaters has lost another capital markets partner with the exit of Nigel Pridmore, who quit the firm last month.
03/03/2014
ECB needs 770 supervisors for new watchdog by November
03/03/2014
Watch our video for the findings of our review of how firms are preparing for the implementation of the new platform rules.
03/03/2014
A deadline for the CC report publication had initially been set for 31 January, but has since been extended to "later in the spring", according to an RBS spokesperson.
03/03/2014
Banker unfairly sacked over claims he was moonlighting for heavyweight champion
03/03/2014
Why don't people like solicitors? Is it because of the old adage that 'lawyer' sounds like, or is synonymous with, liar?