Search results for

A guide to the 20 bank teams at the forefront of legal innovation

The Financial Services Commission has recently issued special guidelines for professional directors, especially those sitting on multiple boards in the global business sphere. In addition to the fiduciary duties expected from directors, resident directors must demonstrate that they have sufficient time to prepare for and attend board meetings. Resident directors are also expected to have a reasonable number of directorships. Reasonableness will be judged on various factors including, but not limited to, the number of board meetings being held, categories of companies and staff supports available to the director.

The deal, team and individual nominees for this year's expanded awards

To Citi, the in-house legal role is more critical than ever. The team adds value by understanding the legal, political and regulatory environment and working closely with the risk organisation.

Korean banks are generally well capitalised, but it is feared that the implementation of Basel III later this year will rein in their growth.

An analysis of recent corporate scandals reveals the solution to China’s agency problem

The lighter side of the past month in the world of financial law

Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) has become the first Asian company to restructure through a UK scheme of arrangement. It also represents the first time a UK court used its discretion to stay proceedings against a debtor so that a scheme could be put forward.

Mats Sacklén, Baker &?McKenzie Jorge Bleck, Vieira de Almeida &?Associados The most prominent of London's moves last month saw JONES DAY capture Raymond McKeeve, Berwin Leighton Paisner's global head of private equity. McKeeve had reportedly also been in talks with another firm. SQUIRE SANDERS also secured a significant in the form of Addleshaw Goddard's head of structured finance Mark Thomas. Elsewhere in the City, KING & SPALDING expanded its London offering by establishing a financial services regulatory practice with the arrival of Mayer Brown partner Angela Hayes. US firm BRYAN CAVE brought transactional partner Dan Larkin on board from Dentons, while Stephenson Harwood lost financial and regulatory partner Charlotte Hill to COVINGTON & BURLING.

Limited partners’ greater leverage will divide the market in two