The legal sector is experiencing a period of rapid change, bringing both risk and opportunity to the market. In the past few years, a combination of factors has placed pressure on many law firms to look for ways to reduce costs whilst at the same time expand and broaden business horizons.
Law Firm: Telstra | Published: 03 August 2011 | Practice Area: Outsourcing
Data centres are becoming increasingly popular, housing computer systems, telecoms and sensitive data. These buildings have some specific requirements and as a result, different legal issues to other types of property. Nabarro highlights the main considerations when signing an outsourcing deal.
Law Firm: Nabarro | Published: 12 July 2011 | Practice Area: Outsourcing
The Takeover Panel has now published its consultation paper setting out the details of the UK Takeover Code amendments that it is proposing.
Law Firm: Travers Smith | Published: 05 April 2011 | Practice Area: Management Buyins and Buyouts
Hostile bids have achieved greater than usual notoriety in recent years in the UK. Herbert Smith focuses on defending a hostile bid from the perspective of a UK target company but includes some comparison from other European jurisdictions.
Law Firm: Herbert Smith | Published: 23 March 2011 | Practice Area: Management Buyins and Buyouts
The UK has successfully retained its leading position in Europe for inward investment, yet the UK legal system, investment procedures; restrictions on acquiring businesses and other areas can be hard to understand. This guide explains the key legal issues for Chinese investors.
Law Firm: Herbert Smith | Published: 18 November 2010 | Practice Area: Mergers & Acquisitions
Following the political fall-out over Kraft’s takeover of Cadbury in June, the Code Committee of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers published a public consultation paper on amending the Takeover Code. This briefing from Nabarro sums up the key amendments.
Law Firm: Nabarro | Published: 11 November 2010 | Practice Area: Mergers & Acquisitions
Federal Law No 2 amending provisions of Federal Law 18 of 1981, which regulates commercial agencies in the UAE has now been gazetted, reversing some of the amendments made in 2006 to the Federal Law No.18 of 1981 and introducing new one. This briefing from UAE-based Hadef has the details.
Law Firm: Hadef & Partners | Published: 03 November 2010 | Practice Area: Joint Ventures
This briefing is aimed at heads of legal or in-house counsel working within commerce & industry or financial services that have responsibility for recruitment of legal personnel - its purpose to provide an overview of the recruitment market and flag up some of the pitfalls in the process.
Law Firm: Edwards Gibson | Published: 05 October 2010 | Practice Area: Central Government
In this briefing, Latham looks at the major issues for private equity firms looking to make an investment in Saudi Arabia, as well as highlighting a number of ongoing reforms which may make Saudi Arabia an even more attractive jurisdiction for private equity activity in the coming years.
Law Firm: Latham & Watkins | Published: 24 August 2010 | Practice Area: Mergers & Acquisitions
This accessible and user-friendly tool from Latham & Watkins provides a highly useful glossary of slang and terminology widely used across the corporate, banking and finance sectors. It includes capital markets, securitisation, bonds, M&A, regulation, structured products and corporate finance.
Law Firm: Latham & Watkins | Published: 12 May 2010 | Practice Area: Capital Markets and Debt Securities
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