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By Legal Week | February 24, 2010
Morgan Stanley's chief legal officer is stepping down as the financial services firm overhauls its legal department to better confront new government regulations, reports Corporate Counsel. Gary Lynch - a former executive vice chairman at Credit Suisse and partner at US law firm, David Polk & Wardwell - will retain the position of vice chairman in London, where he has been based since May.
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By Suzi Ring | February 18, 2010
DLA Piper is to see five partners leave its Vienna office, including the office's joint managing partners Stefan Eder and Wieland Schmidt-Schmidsfelden. The team, which also includes finance partner Martin Geiger, regulatory and litigation partner Ivo Deskovic and corporate partner Peter Solt, are expected to launch their own firm in Vienna.
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By Legal Week | February 17, 2010
On 9 February 2010, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced that Hector Sants, the FSA's CEO, will stand down in the summer. He will have held the role for three years in July, leading the FSA through a time of extraordinary challenges for financial institutions and their regulators alike. As yet, Sants' successor has not been selected, but financial institutions, their advisers and commentators are wondering what impact a change of leader might have on the FSA's policies and approach to regulation.
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By Claire Ruckin | January 28, 2010
Herbert Smith has bolstered its financial regulatory practice with the hire of Lloyds Banking Group's head of group regulatory. Jenny Stainsby is set to join the top 10 City firm as a partner in the financial services regulatory (FSR) and bank litigation teams in May. She will work closely with the firm's FSR head Martin Hopper and disputes head Sonya Leydecker.
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By Jeremy Hodges | January 25, 2010
The former London managing partner of Morgan Lewis, Bob Goldspink, has been appointed as a non-executive director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The high-profile litigator retired from Morgan Lewis at the end of September after 12 years at the US firm. He had been managing partner of the firm's City office since 2004.
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By Sofia Lind | January 19, 2010
Bingham McCutchen is set to launch a London antitrust practice with the hire of a McDermott Will & Emery partner in the City. Davina Garrod, who heads up McDermott's London hedge fund practice, will join Bingham in the next two months as the first European-based partner in the firm's antitrust and trade regulation practice group.
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By Jeremy Hodges | January 18, 2010
Mishcon de Reya has launched in New York with the hire of a team of lawyers from US firm Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton. The surprise move will see a 15-strong team of lawyers and support staff set up shop in the highly competitive New York litigation market, headed up by white collar litigator Jim McGuire.
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By Legal Week | January 13, 2010
With all the talk of the bank bonus tax, global financial institutions' reassessment of their commitment to London and UK politicians other than Boris Johnson queuing up to bash the City, you might question what place London will have in the financial new world order in 2010. But before you pack your skis and head to Switzerland, the changes since the London G20 Summit and the unstoppable move towards global transparency should make you think again.
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By Legal Week | January 8, 2010
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has recruited SJ Berwin lawyer Sheldon Mills as its new director of mergers. Mills, who will take up his new role on 15 February, joined SJ Berwin's EU and competition practice in January 2007 from the London office of US firm Jones Day.
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By Legal Week | January 6, 2010
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has appointed Lovells and 39 Essex Street as its main advisors after a tender process. Lovells public law partner Paul Dacam will handle the relationship for the top 10 UK firm. A raft of individuals will also act as specialist advisers to the legal services body, including 1 Crown Office Row's Philip Havers QC, LG business and finance partner Helga Breen, 1 Temple Gardens' Louise Jones, Joanna Tall of legal consultancy Trading Terms and Stephanie Grundy, a freelance expert in drafting statutory instruments.
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By Mike Scarcella | April 22, 2021
Welcome to Labor of Law, our labor and employment dispatch spotlighting big cases, key issues and developing trends.
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By Wendy Johnson Lario, Alan Brody and Scott Humphreys | April 22, 2021
A look at relevant employment laws and litigation vulnerabilities that companies, including their owners, officers and directors, should consider before ceasing operations or filing for bankruptcy.
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By Justin Henry | April 22, 2021
Firm co-founder James Murphy said the boutique has been seeking someone to lead a bank-focused practice for five years.
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By Linda A. Thompson | April 22, 2021
The new rules for "human-friendly AI" will impose major new obligations on AI providers, importers, distributors and users.
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By Lisa Shuchman | April 21, 2021
The new rules for "human-friendly AI" will impose major new obligations on AI providers, importers, distributors and users.
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By Mike Scarcella | April 20, 2021
Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends.
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By Antoine Aylwin and Aya Barbach, Fasken | April 20, 2021
After a year, Bill 64, as Québec's draft law is known, is mired in controversy and divided aims. Recent amendments spotlight the rifts among its supporters, and in certain ways appear to disregard the reality of individuals and that of Québec organizations.
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By Cheryl Miller | April 19, 2021
Leaders of the district attorneys association said in December that they concurred with the audit's findings and pledged to return the misspent money.
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By Harry Burnett, Craig Miles, Roberto Aguirre Luzi, Isabel Fernandez de la Cuesta, Luli Hemmingsen, Lauren Friedman, Fernando Rodriguez-Cortina and Arturo Oropeza Casas | April 19, 2021
The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with his new bill, intends to upend the Mexican energy sector and restore the dominance of PEMEX, the national oil company.
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By Mike Scarcella | April 19, 2021
Keller and Heckman, founded in 1962, has grown over the years to more than 80 lawyers in Washington, San Francisco, Brussels and Shanghai. The firm boasts about its "broad practice in the areas of regulatory law, public policy, and litigation."
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