06/03/2015
UK law firm doubles Cheltenham office
The new hires bring Lodders’ partnership total to 27 and overall staff numbers across its three locations in Cheltenham, Stratford upon Avon and Henley in Arden to well over 120.
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
06/02/2015
Standard Chartered boss talks Fifa and Europe
The Europe chief executive of Standard Chartered has said that the British banking giant is trying to "figure out" what role it played in the Fifa corruption scandal
06/02/2015
German Regulator BaFin Opens the Way for Credit Funds in Germany
By changing its administrative practice, the BaFin allows loan origination and loan restructuring by investment funds in Germany
06/02/2015
Law Society of Scotland joins forces with Tilney Bestinvest
Tilney Bestinvest has a long history of working with the Scottish legal community
06/02/2015
Debevoise Advises SPIE in Financing Aspects of its IPO
SPIE is owned by is owned by private equity funds Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Ardian, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), as well as membered of management and employees of Spie.
06/02/2015
Debevoise Advises Rexel in the Placement of €500 Million Senior Notes
The Debevoise team advising Rexel was led by London partners Raman Bet-Mansour and Pierre Maugüé, and included Paris based international counsel Philippe Tengelmann and associate Roxanne Castro, and London based associate Vikas Mehta.
06/02/2015
Orrick hires Akin Gump partner to launch new office in Geneva
Liborio focuses on commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving infrastructure projects
06/02/2015
FCA says firms not treating delegated authority arrangements as outsourcing in the general insurance market
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the results of its thematic review of delegated authority arrangements in the general insurance market.
06/02/2015
Legal Training Institutions Sold By Montagu Private Equity
igh-profile legal training institution, which has a centre in Bristol and plans to open in Exeter, has been sold by Montagu Private Equity with the organisation's new owner set to introduce a former education secretary as chairman.
06/02/2015
Asset managers’ push into bonds prompts regulatory scrutiny
Asset managers’ push into bonds prompts regulatory scrutiny
06/01/2015
British-born accountant seized in FIFA dawn raids 'recruited British players to play for the Cayman Islands in 2022 World Cup qualifiers'
Costas Takkas,57, being held in Zurich after being arrested in Swiss raids
06/01/2015
Banks braced for FBI probe into Fifa ‘bribes’
Eight global lenders, including the British trio, were named in last week’s sensational 164-page dossier, alleging widespread corruption at football’s world governing body.
06/01/2015
UK banking regulator promises final bank ring-fence structure and governance rules for 2016
Wide-ranging regulatory changes are having structural effects.
06/01/2015
Financial Conduct Authority Pushes Forward on Investment & Corporate Banking Competition Study
Part of the study will tackle the European Capital Markets Union
06/01/2015
Investors to continue fight against RBS
Angry Royal Bank of Scotland investors have struck a deal that will help avoid a potentially crippling cash crunch and keep their lawsuit against the bank on track.
06/01/2015
Top asset managers unite to push back on global rules - again
FSB wants funds of certain size to face more scrutiny
06/01/2015
Building concerns by Tim Price
As for the rest of the billions, it’s not clear precisely where that money went.
06/01/2015
BNP Fined $1.4 Million in Hong Kong for Unreported Cross Trades
As a licensed corporation, BNP also failed to employ effectively resources and procedures needed for the proper performance of its business
06/01/2015
How Corrupt Is Britain? Massively
Some of the attendant issues are familiar enough — police practices that include infiltration, entrapment, manufacturing evidence, killing unarmed men, ignoring evidence of child abuse and evidence of high-level corruption, revealed with worrying re
06/01/2015
Mishcon de Reya hires Enyo Law partner in ongoing disputes push
Partner Annabel Thomas is returning to a full service LB100 firm and joining Mishcon de Reya's disputes practice