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New York Weighs Jurisdictional Rule for Foreign Firms
May 18th, 2015
Some lawyers say bill is at odds with recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling New York lawmakers are weighing a bill to make foreign companies submit to the jurisdiction of New York courts as a condition of doing business in ...
Iran’s markets opening up for Australia
May 14th, 2015
Bishop’s Tehran visit a sign of things to come Julie Bishop’s recent visit to Iran – the first by an Australian foreign minister in over a decade – marks an important step in the development of relations between the ...
Law firms struggle with over-capacity and new competitors
May 14th, 2015
Although the recession has eased and business levels and confidence is noticeably higher, law firms are still battling for growth in the face of competition from the profession and from external organisations. Altman Weil’s seventh annual Law Firms in ...
UBS Guilty Plea for Libor Seen Opening Door to Political Battle
May 14th, 2015
UBS Group AG faces the prospect of making a guilty plea that would require it, along with four other giant global banks, to seek U.S. regulators’ permission to keep managing Americans’ money. Several law experts said that UBS may ...
Why law graduates are being taught to think like MBAs
May 13th, 2015
Lawyers Don’t Know Enough About Business. Law Schools Are Trying to Fix That The popularity of an American legal education is dwindling in the face of disappointing job prospects for graduates. To rescue themselves from oblivion, some law schools are fashioning themselves after ...
Dentons wins CEE Law Firm of the Year at Chambers Europe Awards
May 13th, 2015
Dentons has been awarded CEE Law Firm of the Year at the Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2015. The awards took place on the evening of Friday 24 April in Amsterdam. The Chambers Europe awards are particularly significant in the legal services ...
KPMG report reveals that Guernsey funds facilitate £25 billion of inward investment to the UK from global investors
May 13th, 2015
International Capital Flows, a report commissioned by the States of Guernsey and supported by Guernsey Finance, has analysed the economic benefits provided to the UK and Europe by the Guernsey funds market. The majority of the inward investment is ...
Gateley: Announcement of Intention to Float on AIM
May 12th, 2015
Gateley (Holdings) plc, a leading UK commercial law firm, today announces its intention to launch an initial public offering (“IPO”) and application for admission of its ordinary shares to trading on AIM (“Admission”). Cantor Fitzgerald Europe is acting as ...
Law Firms Have Room to Improve, General Counsel Say
May 12th, 2015
Attorneys at law firms have work to do, a new survey of general counsel worldwide has found. While lawyers “were making more effort to understand business needs and communicate better with their clients,” 127 chief legal officers said that ...
Baker & McKenzie and FenXun Partners joint operation announcement adds unique capabilities to China competition practice
May 6th, 2015
The Joint Operation provides clients of both firms with an unprecedented platform to serve their international and PRC legal needs Baker & McKenzie and FenXun Partners recently announced that they had become the first international and PRC law firms ...
