Sponsored briefing: Ask the private banker to senior lawyers
Emily Bernstein is an experienced private banker at Investec who specialises in supporting legal leaders and senior lawyers. Here, she…
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Sponsored briefing: Ask the private banker to senior lawyers
Emily Bernstein is an experienced private banker at Investec who specialises in supporting legal leaders and senior lawyers. Here, she…
Sponsored briefing: Ask the private banker to senior lawyers
Emily Bernstein is an experienced private banker at Investec who specialises in supporting legal leaders and senior lawyers Q: I…
Pallas Partners files suits against Swiss regulator over Credit Suisse bond write-down
Pallas Partners is coordinating proceedings in the Swiss courts on behalf of around 800 Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders who held…
Sponsored briefing: Ask the private banker to senior lawyers
Emily Bernstein is an experienced private banker at Investec, who specialises in supporting legal leaders and senior lawyers. Here, she…
‘Crisis averted’: City banking and corporate partners react as HSBC acquires SVB UK
After a tense weekend of negotiations, the Bank of England announced on Monday (13 March) that HSBC would buy the…
Sponsored briefing: Methods of money laundering: Circumventing anti-money laundering mechanisms
Money laundering continues to be an issue for both financial services providers and their clients. In particular, money launderers continue…
Sponsored briefing: RPC interview series – Simon Hart
To what extent is the current crisis similar to the 2008 financial crisis? They are very different. Every economic crisis…
Sponsored briefing: The pandemic and Portuguese capital markets
In 2019, our article in Legal Business ended as follows: ‘Therefore, with the benefits of a renewed legal and regulatory…
Sponsored briefing: Portuguese Market Update – Sustainable Financing
The Paris Climate Agreement, signed in Paris on 12 December 2015, strengthened the call to action among the financial community…
Freshfields tax drama back in spotlight as Germany’s finance minister throws future mandates into doubt
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been dragged into the spotlight yet again for its role in the cum-ex tax scandal, with Germany’s…
Sponsored briefing: It’s the little things that count
Emily Bernstein demonstrates how Investec can help to find personal banking solutions for clients in the legal industry The legal…
The Client Profile: Sonya Rogerson, Bank of China
Born in Hong Kong to an English father and a Chinese mother but raised in Australia, Sonya Rogerson’s passion for…
Guest comment: Covid-19 and City regulators – The limits of forbearance
Forbearance is something of a dirty word in UK financial regulation, at least with regulators themselves. It describes a situation…
‘There are Formula 1 drivers and other drivers’ – who’s winning the race for London’s lev fin work?
Georgina Stanley and Ben Wheway cast an eye over one of the City’s most contested practice lines ‘Leveraged finance is…
Linklaters turns to Asia for new banking head as Bugg steps down after three years
Linklaters’ Hong Kong based finance partner Davide Mencacci has replaced Tony Bugg to become the firm’s first non-London based banking…
Who Represents Who: The data behind the story
Clifford Chance finance clients, 2017 As LB looks at the future of finance, we look at the clientele of the…
Banking and finance focus: Back to the future
‘The truth is no-one’s got the faintest idea what finance practices will look like in the future,’ shrugs Tony Bugg,…
‘No blueprint’: Looking back at Lehman’s wind-up
Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE)’s 5,500 employees left the London office at 25 Bank Street on Friday 12 September 2008…
Focus: Wild West or new frontier? Securities counsel divided as the cryptocurrency ‘float’ rears its blockchained head
Marco Cillario sizes up the pros and cons for legal advisers of the current ICO boom ‘We are in an…