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GCs Hold Frank Discussion Around Crisis and Reputation Risk

As part of a 2016 series examining global risk, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel convened a roundtable dinner on June 16 at Eleven Madison Park in New York to discuss issues related to crisis and reputational risks. It was the second of four planned dinners on the broader topic of global risk that...

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Finance

DOJ Takes Aim at Individuals: A quest to uncover violations of criminal law that purportedly occurred during the 2007-2008 financial crisis

Notwithstanding the recent series of record-breaking settlements between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and many of the world’s largest financial institutions[1], the DOJ has now set its sights on investigating individuals – pursuant to a civil statute – in a quest to uncover...

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Banking | Finance

Brexit - The U.K. Vote to Leave the EU - Immediate Issues

The UK voted to leave the EU on June 23. This note sets out the key immediate issues that businesses will face in the coming days. What changes on day one? Nothing, legally. The UK is still an EU member subject to the same rights and obligations. This will not change until actual...

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Brexit - The U.K. Vote to Leave the EU – IMMED ISSUES

The UK voted to leave the EU on June 23. This note sets out the key immediate issues that businesses will face in the coming days. What changes on day one? Nothing, legally. The UK is still an EU member subject to the same rights and obligations. This will not change until actual...

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The UK Vote To Leave The EU - Immediate Issues

THE UK VOTE TO LEAVE THE EU - IMMEDIATE ISSUES  The UK voted to leave the EU on June 23. This note sets out the key immediate issues that businesses will face in the coming days. What changes on day one? Nothing, legally. The UK is still an EU member subject to the same rights...

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Accessing Investor Capital: Determine which investment program is suitable and what issues international companies must consider

Chinese investors have accelerated their outbound investments in the global market. This can be seen from various headline stories appearing on global broadsheets involving Chinese investors making or participating in mega M&A projects. However, financial regulations, especially currency...

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Civil Rules Roundtable: Proportionality- Old Wine, New Bottle?

As discovery burdens have grown under the increasing weight of e-discovery, the revisions to Rule 26(b)(1) represent an effort to emphasize the need for “proportionality” between discovery and the particular circumstances of the case in which it is sought. The revised language to Rule...

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