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Holman Fenwick and Fulbright sign up trio of Dewey London partners

Holman Fenwick Willan and Fulbright & Jaworski have become the latest firms to benefit from the collapse of Dewey & LeBoeuf's City arm, with the pair bringing in three partners between them. Holman Fenwick has picked up two partners, recruiting Dewey's City financial regulation chief Robert Finney and corporate finance and insurance partner James Lewis.
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Covington continues City white-collar crime hiring with new lateral

Covington & Burling has made a second consecutive anti-corruption lateral hire in London, with Steptoe & Johnson partner David Lorello joining the US firm this week (15 May). Lorello, who made partner at Steptoe in 2010, is US-qualified and focuses on US, UK and European regulatory issues.
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Corporate counsel are key in assessing risk as regulatory action becomes more common

Eversheds Consulting's Lee O'Connell explains how the general counsel role has evolved to take on compliance issues
5 minute read

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Emerging risks - growing compliance problems in emerging economies

The risk of having to pay bribes to get business done in many emerging markets is prevalent: from being granted a concession, an operating licence or a contract by an emerging markets government, to getting goods cleared at customs, obtaining immigration visas and being connected to the local electricity grid or telephone network..
11 minute read

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Burden of trust - will moves to cut red tape let bad employers off the hook?

Will the Government's drive to reduce the regulatory burden allow less-principled businesses to slip through the net? Bond Pearce's Nicky Loadsman discusses the implications of earned recognition
9 minute read

International Edition

SRA requirement to appoint compliance officers risks clash of responsibilities

Law firms must balance independence with business knowledge when choosing who to appoint as their new compliance officer, say Stephen Ralph and Peter Scott
5 minute read

International Edition

Friends in high places - the controversies dogging the SEC

"If the SEC gave JP Morgan a pass because it was doing the Government a favour by taking over Bear Stearns in a crisis, then it should come out and say so. Otherwise, it is hard to understand why the SEC never brought this case..."
7 minute read

International Edition

FSA enforcement chief joins PwC as UK GC

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has hired the Financial Services Authority's (FSA's) former director of enforcement and financial crime, Margaret Cole, as its new UK general counsel. Cole, who will join the accounting giant in the autumn after serving a period of gardening leave, will take over from Owen Jonathan when he retires from the professional services giant in December.
3 minute read

International Edition

Regulation clampdown - a senior executive wish list for future regulation

Eversheds recently polled senior executives in the City to compile a wish list for future regulation. Michael Wainwright reports
5 minute read

International Edition

The new European Union privacy regime – benefit or burden for online businesses?

Compliance with new EU regulation could cause headache for online entities. Latham's Gail Crawford reports
6 minute read

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