Search Results for: law firms
The billion-dollar bash – how post-crisis investigation work is changing the way law firms advise banks
April 11th, 2014
With banks setting aside eye-watering sums of money to meet liabilities generated by the fallout from the financial crash, in-house legal departments and law firms are having to rethink their business models. Alex Newman reports By any standards, $23bn ...
Beware of ‘cloud’ computing snoopers, law firms warned
April 7th, 2014
Firms planning to rely on ‘cloud’ technology for their IT should be aware of the risk of lawful interception by intelligence agencies, the Law Society warns today. A practice note on cloud computing – in which data is stored ...
Law Firms
February 4th, 2014
King & Wood Mallesons top the APAC Law Firm Index 2016; Which firms are the next in top ten
July 6th, 2016
King & Wood Mallesons and Baker & McKenzie are the firms best positioned to take advantage of fast rising legal spend in the region. Findings show that success in the region is built on local office presence combined with ...
Accounting firms have pushed into legal but will law push back?
December 28th, 2015
While big-four accounting firms have bulked up their legal services this year, law firms have missed the opportunity to diversify, says an analyst at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). Marc Totaro, the national manager of professional services at ...
FSMA Belgium published list of investement firms operating unlawfully in Belgium
July 20th, 2015
The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) has issues a press release to warn the public against the activities of various providers of/intermediaries in binary options and forex products, as well as against the activities of various so-called “boiler ...
Botched Law Could Close Hundreds of Foreign Firms’ Rep Offices in Russia
March 11th, 2015
Representative and branch offices of foreign companies working in Russia are in a race against time to re-register with the authorities or lose their license to operate in the country. The re-registration was intended to streamline bureaucracy for foreign firms, but organizational failures and lack of proper warning have left companies scrambling ...
Foreign Firms under Chinese antitrust law
August 11th, 2014
It was only last month that 100 antitrust investigators probe simultaneously into four of Microsoft’s offices across China, executing “surprise visits” where the vice president and other managers were interrogated and data was collected. It appears that Chinese regulators ...
CySEC recalls the partial suspension of the CIF authorisation of two Cyprus Investment Firms
June 18th, 2020
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’) has issued today two announcements to inform that decided to recall the partial suspension of the authorisation of two Cyprus Investment Firms (‘CIFs’). In accordance with the announcements: The CYSEC, further to ...
From now on crypto firms in Singapore have to be licensed
February 7th, 2020
With the new payments law, all crypto businesses and brokers operating in Singapore should be licensed. The Payment Services Act was passed back in January 2019 and was implemented this Tuesday, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). ...
