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Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 18, No. 125 - June 30, 2009
Daily decision alert.Home Depot's Plan Renews Worries
Home Depot's plans to acquire a Utah industrial loan company is sure to invigorate efforts on Capitol Hill to eliminate this controversial category of lending institution. Depending on state law, industrial loan companies, or ILCs, can offer nearly all the services traditional banks can, but their owners face much less scrutiny from federal regulators. Both the banking industry and advocacy groups are pushing Congress to prevent the creation of new ILCs and want much tighter regulations on existing ones.Costs of Compliance Soar After Sarbanes-Oxley
A new study conducted by Foley & Lardner reveals that companies are paying a high price to stay public in the wake of a sweeping set of changes to federal securities law. The survey, the first to try to capture the cost of compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, looked at mostly mid-cap companies and found that since the law's passage last summer, the average price of being public has close to doubled.The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in the Am Law 200
Brownstein Hyatt Opens in Atlantic City; King & Spalding boosts its international trade and energy practices; and, the head of Goodwin Procter's San Francisco office departs for Mintz Levin. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements to [email protected].Alston snags outsourcing group to get more global
ALSTON BIRD has raided two partners from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman to establish a global sourcing practice-but rumors that Alston might open offices in London or Germany are premature, said the firm's managing partner, Ben F. Johnson III.Trevor W. Nagel and Lee Van Blerkom joined Alston earlier this month as partners in its Washington office.
Major U.K. Firms Cut Back Profit Payouts Amid Tough Markets
A growing number of U.K. firms are either holding back or reducing partner profit distributions as a result of the recession. Pinsent Masons and DLA Piper have both withheld profit distributions in recent months. Pinsent has withheld its last two quarterly profit distributions, with the firm attributing the "profits distribution holiday" to a series of management responses to the recession. DLA held back its August distribution firmwide and has yet to decide on its next payment, due in November.
Baker & McKenzie Tops List of Law Firm Brands
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