12/13/2014
Private equity firms focus on alignment of economic incentives when they make investments, and that usually means that the portfolio company's management team has a hefty stake in the success of the enterprise.
12/13/2014
Financial sector feathers have been seriously ruffled by a succession of developments which arrived, like overdue buses, in a rapid sequence of three.
12/12/2014
Commerzbank is in talks to pay US authorities more than $1bn in fines to resolve allegations that the German bank broke anti-money laundering and sanctions laws — at least $400m more than previously thought.
12/12/2014
Global specialist law firm Elects 11 New Partners to the Firm
Global specialist law firm has announced that 11 lawyers have been newly elected as partners effective January 1, 2015.
12/12/2014
Welcome to the latest issue of the Withers' real estate newsletter
12/12/2014
The Central Bank of Ireland ("CBI") has published an address by Mr. Gareth Murphy, Director of Markets Supervision (the "Director") at the recent Irish Funds Industry Association symposium in the UK.
12/11/2014
Representatives of the defunct high street lender lose a legal test case over compensation stemming from loan documents.
12/11/2014
The legal action comes after Sinn Fein deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald named six former ministers in the Dail under privilege, saying they were mentioned in the Ansbacher dossier.
12/11/2014
The Board believes that this may also lead to the ability to raise fresh capital for the Company in the future
12/11/2014
To protect its economy, Sweden three years ago began imposing on its banks some of Europe’s toughest capital requirements, including orders to fill buffers largely with equity.
12/11/2014
Switzerland has charged a former computer analyst at HSBC's private bank in Geneva with industrial espionage and breaching the country's secrecy laws for passing confidential client data to foreign authorities.
12/11/2014
Welcome to the December issue of Withers' Regulatory Watch.
12/10/2014
Prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of three and a half years for Elmer, 59, who embarked on a whistle-blowing campaign after leaving the bank more than a decade ago.
12/10/2014
This could go some way to assuaging German concerns about the ECB embarking on a round of sovereign bond purchases -- a possibility it is considering.
12/10/2014
Scot Young, 52, and his former wife fought Britain's most high-profile divorce
12/10/2014
The new committee will assume responsibility from next month for policies, procedures, systems and controls for anti-money laundering
12/10/2014
‘It is our responsibility to keep evolving so that we continue to be a leading Lincoln’s Inn law firm for many generations to come.
12/10/2014
She has negotiated the final suites of property agreements arising from successful bids including transferring offshore transmission assets to Offshore Transmission Operators.
12/10/2014
The FCA has today published Simon Davis’s review (Davis Review) in full and the FCA’s formal response.
12/10/2014
This builds upon the firm's considerable network of clients and contacts in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.