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DLA loses five-strong Vienna team including office managing partners

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.
2 minute read

International Edition

Will the FSA step up regulation as Sants steps down?

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.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Audit America: In-House Counsel Prepare for Section 409A Review

Payroll, as well as compensation practices and procedures, come under scrutiny.
14 minute read

International Edition

Herbert Smith adds partner to financial regulatory team with Lloyds hire

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.
2 minute read

International Edition

SFO recruits former Morgan Lewis City chief

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.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

SCOTUS Rolls Back Corporate Spending Limits in Election Campaigns

Citizens United v. FEC may significantly change how corporations get involved with electioneering.
1 minute read

Inside Counsel

SCOTUS Rolls Back Corporate Spending Limits in Election Campaigns

Citzens United v. FEC may significantly change how corporations get involved with electioneering.
5 minute read

International Edition

Bingham to launch London antitrust practice with McDermott partner hire

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.
2 minute read

International Edition

Mishcons set for New York litigation launch with hire of 15-strong team

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.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

H&R Block Refunds Millions in IRA Fee Settlement

Express IRAs carried fees that were higher than the interest they earned.
2 minute read

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