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A warning to financial institutions: failure to issue a litigation hold may have serious consequences

  • Frost Brown Todd LLC
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  • USA
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  • May 3 2013

As electronic discovery has become more prevalent and voluminous, national standards for the preservation of evidence have evolved dramatically in

What matters: A review of 2011 and 2012

  • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 1 2013

As you know, the last two years have seen a somewhat improved, but by no means robust, business climate. At the same time, structural shifts in the

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

International regulatory update 10-14 December 2012

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 17 2012

The European Council (Heads of State or Government) has published the conclusions from its meeting on 13 and 14 December 2012, at which it agreed on a roadmap for the completion of the Economic and Monetary Union

Fifth Circuit expected to issue landmark ruling concerning recognition of foreign bankruptcy proceedings contrary to US public policy

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 20 2012

In a widely followed dispute, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will soon render a decision on the appeal of a Texas Bankruptcy Court’s refusal to recognize non-debtor third party releases in the Mexican reorganization proceeding (concurso mercantil) of Mexican glass manufacturer Vitro SAB de CV

House Financial Services Committee releases staff report on MF Global

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 16 2012

The US House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Committee) has released a report on the collapse of MF Global (Report

SEC suffers defeat in trial against “break the buck” executives

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 13 2012

A federal court jury in Manhattan returned verdicts on Monday, November 12, largely exonerating the two most senior Reserve Management Company executives in a Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action accusing them of fraud

IRS issues new regulations defining “publicly traded property” for purposes of determining the issue price of debt instruments that are significantly modified in a restructuring or issued for property

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 26 2012

On September 12, 2012, the IRS issued new regulations defining when property is “publicly traded” for purposes of determining the issue price of a debt instrument that is issued for property or treated as issued for property, as is the case when a debt instrument is “significantly modified” in a restructuring

Bankruptcy court determines that holders of soft dollar credits are not customers under SIPA

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 24 2012

In a decision described as the first of its kind, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York ruled that claims based on soft dollar credits issued by Lehman Brothers Inc. (LBI) to numerous investment advisers were not entitled to the special protections afforded to “customer claims” under the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA

SDNY Bankruptcy Court holds that “soft dollar” claims are not customer claims under SIPA

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 22 2012

On July 10, 2012, Judge James M. Peck of the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that so-called “soft dollar” claims do not qualify for treatment as customer claims under the Securities Investor Protection Act