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CESR updates and publishes technical proposals on short selling

  • Dentons
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  • Greece, United Kingdom
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  • May 28 2010

CESR has updated its table of measures Member States have taken on short selling

France, Spain, Italy, Belgium and other jurisdictions impose short sale restrictions on financial companies

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
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  • Belgium, European Union, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • August 12 2011

The European Securities and Markets Authority, an organization established by the European Union as its securities regulatory authority, said in a public statement yesterday that some authorities in the EU have decided to impose or extend existing short-selling bans or restrictions in their respective countries due to recent volatility in the European financial markets

Enforcement of sovereign debt - a familiar but very different story

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Argentina, European Union, Greece, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
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  • October 10 2011

If, as some fear, the current European sovereign debt crisis does come to a tragic conclusion then one of the many issues the resulting chaos may potentially throw-up is the ability of investors to enforce or attempt to enforce debt securities which have been issued by a defaulting sovereign state

International regulatory update 22-26 August 2011

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • China, European Union, France, Global, Greece, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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  • August 30 2011

ESMA has published an updated table of measures taken by its Members in relation to short selling in financial markets

European short selling bans lifted

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
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  • Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 5 2012

Amid growing evidence that short selling bans function, at best, as very temporary circuit breakers with no long term effect on volatility, several European regulators have lifted their bans on short selling as of February 2012

International regulatory update 28-1 February 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union, Global, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, United Kingdom
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  • February 4 2013

Short selling: ESMA issues guidelines on market-making and primary dealer exemptions, and updates Q&A on application of regulation

Latest Developments for Equity Compensation Plans

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Philippines, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam
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  • June 1 2010

This letter is from the Global Equity Services ("GES") group in San Francisco, Chicago and New

Smith & Nephew PLC settlement illustrates pitfalls of ignoring red flags

  • Jenner & Block
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  • Greece, United Kingdom, USA
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  • April 30 2012

A London-based medical device company, Smith & Nephew PLC, has settled an FCPA matter with DOJ and SEC involving bribes to public sector doctors in Greece by U.S. and German subsidiaries of Smith & Nephew