Reed Smith has hired a new finance partner from Sidley Austin, with the latter witnessing a spate of exits from its London outpost over the last few months. The US firm has taken on partner Jason Richardson, who will join its financial industries group. Richardson has spent most of his career at Sidley, which he has […]
Slaughter and May, Peters & Peters and Signature Litigation will appear in the Court of Appeal in the long-running Credit Suisse/Republic of Mozambique dispute, after the defendants, Privinvest, lost a bid to put a stay in the fraud dispute last year. Credit Suisse is seeking counsel from Slaughters, having previously turned to Linklaters. Slaughters replaced the […]
Goodwin Procter has recruited a restructuring partner from Baker McKenzie, the latest addition as part of a sustained hiring push in the City. The US firm has attracted partner Geoff O’Dea, who will leave Bakers next month after more than three years. O’Dea was hired from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2017. That year, he joined […]
A bitter legal battle is heating up over claims that Goldman Sachs was “grossly negligent” in encouraging an employee of Europe’s largest wine producer to enter unauthorised foreign exchange transactions. J.Garcia Carrion, which is also the fourth-largest wine producer in the world, is taking on the bank due to the actions of its former chief […]
Leonie Kelly, director and head of ESG and impact advisory at Ogier Global, discusses Hong Kong’s ambitions to become Asia’s green financial hub – the progress it has made so far and the hurdles that remain.
In this interview, excerpts of which originally appeared in Asian Legal Business, Ogier partner and head of ESG Funds in Hong Kong Kate Hodson discusses how offshore law firms have stepped up to meet this changing business landscape, the ramping up of regulations, and the growing momentum around ESG.
Despite the beginning of 2020 being marked by a large number of new regulations in the Cayman Islands, the number of changes to laws and regulations that impact or may impact funds constituted in the country was significantly lower in the last quarter of 2020 than verified previous quarters. Specifically, the regulatory bodies and competent authorities focused on receiving clarifications and refinements to the existing regimes, which continued to occur in January 2021.
On 12 November 2020, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) issued significant updates to the reporting framework (RF) for signatories. The new requirements are more focused on “real world” outcomes meaning signatories needs to show how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are integrated into investment analysis and execution.
An advance health care directive is also known as a living will. It is actually not a new concept but is new to being recognised in the Cayman Islands. In 2019 the Health Care Decisions Act was implemented in the Cayman Islands.
It was unfortunate that such a fundamental change to the regulatory regime of the British Virgin Islands was largely overshadowed due to the twin challenges of the economic substance regime implementation in 2019/2020 and the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020. Save for structures established for the purposes of a making a single investment, most investment […]
Reed Smith has hired a new finance partner from Sidley Austin, with the latter witnessing a spate of exits from its London outpost over the last few months. The US firm has taken on partner Jason Richardson, who will join its financial industries group. Richardson has spent most of his career at Sidley, which he has […]
Slaughter and May, Peters & Peters and Signature Litigation will appear in the Court of Appeal in the long-running Credit Suisse/Republic of Mozambique dispute, after the defendants, Privinvest, lost a bid to put a stay in the fraud dispute last year. Credit Suisse is seeking counsel from Slaughters, having previously turned to Linklaters. Slaughters replaced the […]
Goodwin Procter has recruited a restructuring partner from Baker McKenzie, the latest addition as part of a sustained hiring push in the City. The US firm has attracted partner Geoff O’Dea, who will leave Bakers next month after more than three years. O’Dea was hired from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2017. That year, he joined […]
A bitter legal battle is heating up over claims that Goldman Sachs was “grossly negligent” in encouraging an employee of Europe’s largest wine producer to enter unauthorised foreign exchange transactions. J.Garcia Carrion, which is also the fourth-largest wine producer in the world, is taking on the bank due to the actions of its former chief […]
White & Case public M&A partner Patrick Sarch is set to join Hogan Lovells. The high-wattage partner, who co-heads both the firm’s financial institutions global industry group and the corporate practice in London, will move to the transatlantic firm after more than four years at White & Case. He joined the firm in 2017 from […]
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Calls for reform of the CMA will be music to the ears of claimant litigators.
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UK law firms are starting to pay back employees’ salaries as the economy recovers.
Prep courses for the new SQE are now being unveiled, and solicitor hopefuls will have to puzzle their way through the wide array of options.
Linklaters has hired Jonathan Jones QC, the former Treasury Solicitor and head of the UK Government Legal Department (GLD), months after he decided to leave his post. Jones’ departure was revealed last August as the UK Government faced scrutiny over its plans to clarify parts of the Northern Ireland protocol, which formed a section of […]
A London-based capital markets partner at Hogan Lovells is leaving the firm to launch his own legal tech business. Raj Panasar had joined Hogan Lovells in early 2020 from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where he had spent his whole career. An expert on international financing transactions, he represents multiple issuers, including emerging market and […]
The unexpected renovation of BPP Law School’s Holborn campus has sparked outrage among law students who are paying a premium for studying in London but remain unable to use the facilities. In photos published on social media, the Holborn building appears stripped of all fittings and furniture, with BPP since confirming that the campus is […]
Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy acted alongside two US firms on a deal that will see PE powerhouse KKR become a major shareholder of Finland’s biggest electricity distribution company. The two magic circle firms were on the opposite sides of a deal that ended in KKR and Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan […]
Clyde & Co would be at “risk of criminal prosecution” if it was to hand over funds held in an escrow account for PetroSaudi Oil, a judge has ruled, as multiple authorities claim the funds are connected to the 1MDB scandal. The dispute is a spin-off from the 1Malaysia Development (1MDB) fraud investigation, with anti-corruption […]
South West firm Trethowans has appointed a new managing partner. Personal injury lawyer Chris Whiteley has led the firm since 2015 but head of corporate Mike Watson is set to take over from 1 April. Whiteley is to become senior partner and will remain on the board. “Mike has been my right hand person and […]
