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The highly complex Royal Bank of Scotland 2008 rights issue litigation has seen Bird & Bird’s dispute resolution head Steven Baker…

Jaishree Kalia

Schulte Roth & Zabel’s (SRZ’s) 80-strong top-tier transatlantic funds practice is set to grow after the US firm announced this week…

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Morgan Stanley is the latest major financial institution to declare that it has been hard hit by litigation and the…

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As confidence begins to re-emerge at City finance teams, Legal Business profiles the mid-market players intent on challenging the Square…

David Stevenson

Behind the scenes of the first-ever creditor bail-in of a bank in the UK. Last month The Co-operative Group’s £1.5bn…

Richard Moorhead

Lawyers and banks are in the news again. Lawrence Tomlinson, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Department for Business, Innovation and…

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It’s historically proved one of the hardest practice areas for City firms to break, proving often impenetrable for even elite…

David Stevenson

Berwin Leighton Paisner‘s (BLP’s) head of banking and finance Matthew Kellett is to leave the firm, it was confirmed today…

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If anyone still doubts the mounting legal burdens now falling on the world’s largest finance houses Deutsche Bank has this…

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Insurers are joining banks in upping their scrutiny of law firm finances in light of recent insolvencies as 185 law firms…

David Stevenson

Debevoise & Plimpton and Davis Polk & Wardwell have landed roles on Verizon Communication’s record breaking $49bn US bond issue. The deal…

David Stevenson

Company directors facing scrutiny over their low corporate tax bill are not able to effectively blame their decisions on their…

David Stevenson

As leading retail and investment banks bolster their internal compliance functions it has emerged that Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) financial services…

David Stevenson

European corporates are showing greater reluctance than last year to tap into the debt capital markets but Royal Dutch Shell…

Sarah Downey

The Government’s plan to take the Student Loans Company debt off its balance sheet has moved up a gear as…

David Stevenson

Allen & Overy (A&O) has topped Thomson Reuters’ table of legal advisers on global debt and equity capital markets work for…

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It was the most controversial piece of legislation aimed at corporates to emerge in the last decade and, in a…

David Stevenson

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) handed out its last penalty before being split up after fining companies in the Prudential…

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International wealth preservation and succession planning is now a core component of most successful private client practices. Legal Business assesses…

David Stevenson

With HMV, Jessops and Blockbuster all entering into administration in the first few weeks of 2013, leading City firms have…