Billions of dollars are spent on futile efforts, like employing the proverbial Chinese Army of compliance officers, most of whom may know a bit about AML, but next to nothing about the actual business and transactions. The same, unfortunately, holds true for many regulators, who can only thrive by regulating big banks. Gert Demmink’s idea […]
The authors of this piece are Catherine Robinson and Matthew Ware, both of whom are solicitors for Byrne and Partners - a dedicated civil and criminal litigation practice specialising in financial crime. Another day, another bank scandal. Another poster boy for city excess and the greed is good philosophy of wealth. His career, perhaps his reputation […]
Progressing from an assistant lawyer to Judge, Senior Partner Dao Rina has a vast amount of experience with dispute resolution regarding corporate matters. He has acted for influential companies, and settled cases involving millions of yuan. He speaks with us about the most effective method of solving disputes and how this has progressed in China […]
With an array of legal experience and varied sector backgrounds, from being an M&A lawyer in private practice, to a senior officer at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), our guest talks to Lawyer Monthly about the personal and professional rewards of being an Investment Funds lawyer and teaching this subject at Harvard Law […]
Dr Christos Clerides is the head of Phoebus, Christos Clerides & Associates LLC which was originally established by his late father Phoebus Clerides, Barister-at-Law in 1950. The firm has handled very important cases in its 67-year history of litigations and Dr Clerides has seen through many influential cases that have allowed the legal sector to […]
Clive Grossman Q.C, emigrated with his parents from London, to what was then Southern Rhodesia, in 1947, where he spent his school years growing up. After a few years as an articled clerk in a solicitor’s office, Clive went to the University of Cape Town and completed his BA and LLB in 1966. After joining […]
Legal services contributed £20.3 billion to the UK economy last year. The biggest consumers of legal services are the financial, insurance and pensions sector (17%) followed by construction, IT services, and trade. Of the small business sector, 38% of services consumed relate to trading, compromising of tax, employment and intellectual property. With the rising number […]
With over 30 years’ experience as a member of KPMG’s Tax network, Angelos Gregoriades has participated in numerous merger, acquisition and corporate structuring and restructuring operations at both national and international level and has written many articles and presented seminars of the role of Cyprus as a regional financial and commercial centre. We have the […]
Rafael Morales has been in the legal game for over 30 years and has witnessed many changes in the Philippines’ legal sector and has partaken in several impacting cases; among his several qualifications and his important role as a university lecturer, Rafael has also had much recognition for his legal work, including citations in Euromoney […]
We encounter stories and predictions about how artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally change a variety of industries on an almost day-to-day basis. In fact, it has become such an important topic that late last year the Council for Society and Technology wrote a letter to the Prime Minister advising how the UK could take advantage […]
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