Georgina Stanley

September 21, 2011 | International Edition

It isn't often that the creation of a new financial instrument makes front-page news. But then it isn't often – even post-banking crisis – that global markets and public finances become so strained that discussion of the euro's break-up becomes a mainstream topic. Amid a summer of financial turmoil, with Greece teetering on the edge of a messy default and European leaders so far failing to come up with a credible rescue plan to deal with struggling national economies and banks, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso made headlines by suggesting that a common eurozone bond was the best option on the table. It's not a new refrain. While the idea for a euro-area bond, which would allow weaker countries access to cheaper borrowing, is nothing new, until recently such a move seemed a near impossibility because of the lack of European Union institutions to implement it and entrenched opposition in stronger economies to bailing out profligate southern member states.

By Georgina Stanley

6 minute read

September 14, 2011 | International Edition

With elite Wall Street firms finally breaking into Hong Kong law, the stage is set for a high-stakes struggle across Asia between the world's top law firms. Georgina Stanley and Simon Petersen report

By Georgina Stanley

22 minute read

August 31, 2011 | International Edition

Five years ago the tiny special administrative region of China, Macau, replaced Las Vegas as the world's top gambling destination. Now, as private wealth continues to soar both within China and Asia more generally, and regional markets remain resilient despite the wider global economic turmoil, the UK's largest law firms are attempting to guarantee they retain a significant slice of the market.

By Legal Week

3 minute read

August 31, 2011 | Legal Week

Five years ago the tiny special administrative region of China, Macau, replaced Las Vegas as the world's top gambling destination. Now, as private wealth continues to soar both within China and Asia more generally, and regional markets remain resilient despite the wider global economic turmoil, the UK's largest law firms are attempting to guarantee they retain a significant slice of the market.

By Legal Week

20 minute read

August 08, 2011 | International Edition

Weil Gotshal & Manges has named London disputes partner Juliet Blanch as firmwide head of international arbitration. Blanch, who joined Weil last year from the City office of McDermott Will & Emery, has replaced Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, who left Weil at the end of 2010 to join King & Spalding in New York.

By Georgina Stanley

2 minute read

August 08, 2011 | Legal Week

Weil Gotshal & Manges has named London disputes partner Juliet Blanch as firmwide head of international arbitration. Blanch, who joined Weil last year from the City office of McDermott Will & Emery, has replaced Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, who left Weil at the end of 2010 to join King & Spalding in New York.

By Georgina Stanley

16 minute read

August 05, 2011 | Legal Week

Clarke Willmott has sold its investment management business in a deal worth up to £6m. The southwest law firm has sold the Taunton-based business to AIM-listed wealth management group Brooks Macdonald Group.

By Georgina Stanley

4 minute read

August 05, 2011 | International Edition

Clarke Willmott has sold its investment management business in a deal worth up to £6m. The southwest law firm has sold the Taunton-based business to AIM-listed wealth management group Brooks Macdonald Group.

By Georgina Stanley

2 minute read

July 27, 2011 | Legal Week

Given its media credentials, it's not unfitting that Harbottle & Lewis' battle to defend its role in the phone-hacking saga against criticism by former client News International is being played out so prominently in the public eye. Harbottle's statement last Tuesday (19 July) that it had asked for and been refused permission to waive client confidentiality obligations and defend itself publicly against mounting criticism by both its former clients and politicians was understandable.

By Georgina Stanley

8 minute read

July 27, 2011 | International Edition

Given its media credentials, it's not unfitting that Harbottle & Lewis' battle to defend its role in the phone-hacking saga against criticism by former client News International is being played out so prominently in the public eye. Harbottle's statement last Tuesday (19 July) that it had asked for and been refused permission to waive client confidentiality obligations and defend itself publicly against mounting criticism by both its former clients and politicians was understandable.

By Georgina Stanley

4 minute read