MARKET VIEW – INTRODUCTION Quinn Emanuel’s Ted Greeno weighs up the pros and cons of the different dispute resolution options and offers his insight into which option to pursue It’s an old chestnut: which is better, litigation or arbitration? This is the third attempt I have had at it. In the first, I wrote an …
MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION Bär & Karrer partners Daniel Hochstrasser and Nadja Jaisli Kull discuss the dos and don’ts to be considered when appointing arbitrators For all of its emphasis on privacy, procedural flexibility and the reassurance that comes with a widely-adopted enforcement regime in the form of the New York Convention, parties remain attracted …
MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION The Honourable Marc Lalonde on Canada’s accession to the ICSID Convention and why it took so long to ratify Since the end of World War II, Canada has played a role in international affairs well above its relative economic or military power, whether at the United Nations or in other international institutions …
MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION Omni Bridgeway’s Wieger Wielinga gives an overview of the Enforcement of Arbitration Awards against Sovereign entities in Practice The last decade has shown a sharp increase in investment treaty-based and other international arbitration against sovereign nations, parastatals and other semi-sovereign entities. In the slipstream came an increase in the number of …
MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION Simon Dluzniak of Bentham IMF discusses Europe’s litigation funding market and compares it with the more mature Australian market the funder has come from The third-party litigation funding market in this jurisdiction is, relative to Australia, still in its infancy. Hence it is incumbent upon the various stakeholders within the industry …
MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION Lalive’s Marc Henzelin and Sandrine Giroud examine the key facts on the enforcement of foreign judgments in Switzerland Ranked among the top five financial centres in the world and top of the Global Innovation Index 2014, with postcard landscapes and a tradition of discretion and stability, Switzerland remains a top destination …
Towry’s Chris Cole explains how they help legal partners achieve lifetime financial goals Over the many years we have been working with law firms, we have found that partners typically have common aspirations from a financial point of view. Chief among these is usually the desire to become ‘financially independent’ – in other words, working …
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Thomson Reuters looks at the exciting future of legal services in the wake of a rapidly changing legal market. If the changes that have taken place in the legal market over the past two years are any indication of what lies ahead, the future of legal services is set to be an exciting one. Mergers …
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Menu The Top 25 – Wind in their Sails LB100 2014: The Main Table The Second Quartile – Close Hauled The Second 50 – Ports and Storms The Second 50 – Batten Down Shipping and Insurance – Peaks and Troughs Core Stats Partner Earnings Behind the Numbers – Profitability Revealed Methodology and Notes The Last …
A better year but not every LB100 firm can navigate the choppy waters.
