1. What types of banking and finance law cases do you typically handle in Kuwait? Typical cases include debt recovery, fraud and financial crimes, contractual disputes, dispute resolution, and banking regulations.
I actually started practising law in California, way back in the dark ages. I moved over here for two years, and I’ve been here ever since. I never really intended to be a lawyer in London at all. My lifetime ambition was to be a criminal lawyer in Baltimore. My early career could be characterised …
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1. What are the key regulatory frameworks that govern the banking and finance sector in France? The key regulatory frameworks that govern the banking and finance sector in France are:
1. What are the key regulatory requirements and compliance challenges that law firms operating in Uruguay’s banking and finance sector currently face? Capital Markets Act No 18.627 enacts the framework for companies operating in the Uruguayan Capital Market (issuers, brokers, investment advisers, etc); Law No 15.322 regulates the same for banks and all relevant entities …
1. What are the key regulatory bodies and laws that govern the banking and finance industry in Luxembourg, and how do they impact financial institutions?
Slaughter and May’s eminent senior partner Steve Cooke has become the latest law firm leader to embrace a change of direction post-retirement with the news that he is to join PR agency Brunswick Group. Cooke (pictured) will finish his term as Slaughters’ senior partner on 30 April 2024 after which he will join Brunswick as …
Addleshaw Goddard has announced that Andrew Johnston has been successful in securing the position of the firm’s managing partner through an uncontested election, serving a four-year term to start on 1 May 2024. Having joined the firm in 2013 to oversee the firm’s M&A practice in the Middle East, Johnston (pictured) previously worked at Clifford …
Conversations with private equity and corporate partners in New York before March 2020 used to be predictable. ‘Busy?’ ‘Oh yeah.’ ‘Are you expecting to be less busy?’ ‘Oh, no.’ ‘Can anything stop you?’ ‘I suppose the economy could collapse again.’
Greenberg Traurig announced today (27 November) that Luke Lado has joined the firm as a shareholder, bolstering its banking and finance practice in London. He joins from Weil, where he spent two years as counsel, following five years at Latham & Watkins as a senior associate. His legal career began at Clifford Chance, where he …
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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) announced this week that Jinal Shah will become the firm’s UK managing partner from 1 January 2024. He is taking over from Segun Osuntokun, who served in this role since 2018, with Osuntokun now appointed as BCLP’s first global senior partner, also effective from 1 January.
