Featured Articles: Banking

Corporate Counsel Q&A: Banking 2013

Who’s Who Legal spoke to Rich English, in-house legal at Barclays. Based in Singapore, English began work at the bank in January 2012. Prior to this role, he spent nine years working on finance transactions at a magic circle law firm spending time in their London, Dubai and Singapore offices. English provides an insight into his role at Barclays, shares his recent experiences of moving to an in-house role and discusses the importance of finding the right counsel to help guide the bank through their transactions.

Roundtable: Banking 2013

The International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers has brought together four of the leading banking lawyers in the world to discuss refinancing and restructuring in the market, regulatory developments, competition in the legal marketplace and geographical banking hotspots.

Negative Equity and Quasi-Negative Equity in Italian Companies

Unlike those established in many other jurisdictions, Italian companies are subject to specific rules on negative equity and quasi-negative equity. These rules have become quite a hot topic for investors in a pre-restructuring or a pre-insolvency scenario. Riccardo Sallustio of Bonelli Erede Pappalardo LLP explores the treatment of net loss under the Italian Civil Code.

Roundtable: Banking 2012

The International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers has brought together three of the leading practitioners in the world to discuss key issues facing lawyers today.

Basel III v Dodd-Frank: What Does it mean for US Banks

Kevin F Barnard - Arnold & Porter LLP

Alan W Avery - Arnold & Porter LLP

On 11 November 2010, during their summit meeting in Seoul, South Korea, the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (known as the “G-20”) formally endorsed the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s proposals for capital and liquidity requirements for banking institutions. The Basel Committee had announced an agreement on these higher capital standards on 12 September 2010.

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Analysis: Banking

Research Trends and Conclusions: Banking 2013

With the benefit of over 10 years research and thousands of votes from clients and private practitioners, Who’s Who Legal takes a closer look at developing trends in the banking legal marketplace worldwide. This year we identify the shifts in activity relating to restructuring and refinancing, the decline of bank lending and the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III provisions.

Most Highly Regarded Firms: Banking 2013

In this section we analyse the findings of our research in greater depth to identify the firms and practitioners who stand out worldwide. Allen & Overy LLP features heavily for its international expertise in this field, as do Clifford Chance LLP. Linklaters LLP and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP also perform exceptionally well this year.

Most Highly Regarded Firms: Banking 2012

In this section we analyse the findings of our research in greater depth to identify the firms and practitioners who stand out worldwide.

Research Trends and Conclusions: Banking 2012

With the benefit of over 10 years of research and thousands of votes from clients and private practitioners, Who’s Who Legal takes a closer look at developing trends in the banking legal marketplace worldwide.

Research Trends and Conclusions: Banking 2011

With the benefit of over ten years of research and thousands of votes from clients and private practitioners, Who’s Who Legal takes a closer look at developing trends in the banking legal marketplace worldwide.

Most Highly Regarded Firms: Banking 2011

Our research selects 440 individuals deemed world class by the clients and peers we canvassed, taken from 65 countries worldwide. Several firms stand out in terms of the number of partners selected for inclusion and the breadth of the expertise they can command.

Most Highly Regarded Firms: CIS 2010 - Banking & Finance

We identify 57 of the leading banking and finance lawyers in nine jurisdictions in the following chapter, with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine the best-represented nations.

Most Highly Regarded Firms: Banking 2010

This is the largest edition of our banking book to date, with 442 experts selected from 63 countries. Several firms stand out for the large number of leading practitioners they field, as well as the geographical breadth of their international expertise.

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Featured Articles: Banking

Kevin F Barnard - Arnold & Porter LLP

Alan W Avery - Arnold & Porter LLP

Analysis: Banking

Tom Barnes - Editor, Who's Who Legal

All Lawyers in Banking (Listed Alphabetically)