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11
Jan
Pepper Hamilton LLP Client Alert
At a December 2011 conference of the Consumer Federation of America, the Director of the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Robert Khuzami, delivered a clear message to all members of the securities industry - SEC enforcement activity will increase significantly in 2012. The SEC's commitment to increasing enforcement is part of its ongoing efforts to "investigate and hold accountable those who had contributed to the financial crisis," and to...
09
Jan
Fulbright has been named by Financial Times to its FT Law 25 as part of the 2011 US Innovative Lawyers Report.
The Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Report—now in its sixth year—was conceived as an alternative way to measure law firm success.
The project breaks with the traditional method of looking at fees and profits as the measure of success. As the category rankings are based primarily on client reviews, the FT Law 25 shows firms that were consistently found to be...
21
Dec
Stuttgart - MORI SEIKI and GILDEMEISTER AG ("DMG") are combining their sales and service activities in Europe. The sales and service functions of Mori Seiki GmbH in Germany are being integrated into a new Company within the GILDEMEISTER Group, DMG MORI SEIKI Deutschland GmbH. Mori Seiki GmbH is the German subsidiary of MORI SEIKI Ltd., Japan, a world leader in machine tool engineering. The sales and service operations of MORI SEIKI and GILDEMEISTER in other European countries will also...
21
Dec
On 14 December 2011, the Irish Funds Industry Association issued a Corporate Governance Code (the “Code”) for Irish Investment Funds and their Management Companies. It simultaneously issued a Frequently Asked Questions document (“FAQ”), to complement the Code and support its introduction.
The introduction of the Code arises from an invitation from the Central Bank of Ireland (the “Central Bank”) to the funds industry in 2010 to develop such a code, as part of a process of introducing corporate governance codes...
21
Dec
The Central Bank of Ireland (the “Central Bank”) has launched a new Probability Risk and Impact System (“PRISM”). The aim of this risk-based supervision framework is to supervise all financial firms using an approach that would make it materially less likely that a firm would fail, and less likely the firm would fail in a manner which would endanger financial stability or consumers. In addition to being a framework for risk-management, PRISM is also a software application and has...
15
Dec
EACCNY member Mason Hayes+Curran published A Guide to UCITS in Ireland. To review click here.
27
Sep
1911 - 2011
2011 marks a special year for us. Exactly one hundred years ago,
Mr. D.W. Stibbe set up his practice as an independent lawyer on one of Amsterdam's most notable canals, Herengracht in Amsterdam. His small practice has become a full-service firm with 196 lawyers and civil-law notaries. We spread our wings across the borders. For many years now, we have worked in close cooperation with Stibbe Brussels, and we opened offices in London, New...
18
Aug
Jane C. Luxton | luxtonj@pepperlaw.com
In late July, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit) handed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a scathing rebuke, after reviewing the agency's first Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) regulation, a rule that would have required publicly traded companies to include in proxy materials potentially voluminous information on director candidates nominated by shareholders rather than by the board of directors. The opinion in Business Roundtable v. SEC sent a strong message that...
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