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General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

UK consultation on managing, recovering and resolution planning

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • August 23 2011

The UK Financial Services Authority ("FSA") published its long awaited consultation and discussion papers on Recovery and Resolution Plans for UK financial institutions

SIFI resolutions and living wills: the financial stability board proposal (and some U.S. and UK observations)

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • August 19 2011

On July 19, 2011, as part of a broad program to enhance the regulation of systemically important financial institutions (“SIFIs”), the Financial Stability Board (“FSB”) published a consultative document, “Effective Resolution of Systemically Important Financial Institutions” (the “FSB Paper”

International regulatory update 24-28 January 2011

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 31 2011

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has given a speech launching France's presidency of the G20 and G8 and setting out its priorities for 2011

Directors' and officers' insurance policies should be reviewed in light of anticipated increase in whistleblowing activity instigated by the Dodd-Frank Act and the UK Bribery Act

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 5 2011

The Dodd-Frank Act contains a number of controversial provisions, but perhaps none more so than mandatory payment of a substantial bounty to individuals who provide "original information" to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) leading to fines in excess of US$1 million

UK and US regulators sign MOU

  • Dentons
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • September 24 2010

FSA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

Madoff and Stanford: new ways of resolving the same old issues

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • February 3 2010

The arrests of Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford in December 2008 and June 2009 respectively, and the resulting litigation and investigations, have prompted a raft of notifications to D&O, PI and FidelityBBB policies since late 2008

Contentious and regulatory issues in 2008

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • April 14 2008

Litigation is growing in England, as it is in the US, as investors and counterparties seek to recover losses sustained in the credit crunch

Telephone taping and capturing electronic communications: obligations for UK firms; US implications and perspectives

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 17 2008

The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has now published its final rules requiring certain of its authorized firms to record and keep telephone and electronic communications