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  • It is highly unusual for internet companies to turn a profit, a fact which is only now beginning to drive down the prices of listed web businesses. It is for this reason that most mergers involving web companies are usually funded with virtual money - stock swaps.
  • Internet IPOs, privatizations, and the delights of the hostile takeover made 1999 a year to remember for Italian law firms. But managing partners are facing some difficult decisions, and a wrong move could lead to their firms being shut out of booming markets. Rufus Jones reports from Rome and Milan
  • India’s Information Technology Bill is its first attempt to regulate e-commerce. Aparna Viswanathan of Viswanathan & Co, Advocates, asks whether the Bill eases the transition from a paper-based system to electronic commerce
  • Philip McBride Johnson of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom looks at themove of the US futures markets towards electronic trading and argues that the implications for self-regulation are wider than have been recognized so far
  • What’s wrong with Mesdaq? Adeline Wong of Wong & Partners, Kuala Lumpur
  • As companies receive the new Purple Book from the FSA, Andrew Rosling of Theodore Goddard, London looks at the new regime for securities listing in the UK and assesses its likely implications
  • New legislation on international wire transfers By Act of January 9 2000, published on February 9 2000 and effective as from that date, Belgium implemented European directive no. 97/5/EC of January 27 1997 on international wire transfers.
  • The Japanese Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) revealed in May that Deutsche Bank had made illegal transactions through its Tokyo securities unit. The unit could face temporary suspension from trading bonds and bond futures.
  • Garrigues & Andersen has emerged as the firm with the highest revenues in Spain for the second year in succession, according to a report in Spanish newspaper Expansión. The result underlines Garrigues' position as the flagship of the Andersen Legal network and will fuel the intense debate over the future for multi-disciplinary practices (MDPs).
  • A number of UK firms have gained the mandate to work on German travel company Preussag's recommended bid for Thomson Travel Group. The bid values Thomson at £1.8 billion ($2.7 billion) and was announced in mid-May.