Practice areas

Minter Ellison is kick-starting its tax practice in Hong Kong by the addition of two lawyers from accountant EY. | 13yrs

London's leading public interest barrister set Matrix Chambers is going international with the launch of its first office in Geneva. | 13yrs

After recent accusations from US and UK parliamentary committees, the head of the tax division of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development says Ireland is not a tax haven. | 13yrs

France's largest retail banking group Credit Agricole is reshuffling its global panel. | 13yrs

The ramifications of the Howrey dissolution is ongoing as the bankruptcy trustee continues on the trail of creditor protection. | 13yrs

Planning ahead is the only way to minimise risk, says Michael Madden of Winston & Strawn which has just released research on how corporates manage risk. | 13yrs

The general counsel for the Director of National Intelligence has defended the National Security Agency's controversial data-gathering programme. | 13yrs

A weekly round-up of who's moving up, down or out in global legal practice. | 13yrs

Western pharmaceuticals companies have launched reviews of their links with a Chinese travel agency which is at the heart of corruptions allegations levelled at GlaxoSmithKline. | 13yrs

The US's Commodity Futures Trading Commission has used new powers under the Dodd-Frank Act to issue a $2.8 million fine for ultra-fast trading or spoofing, as it is known in the US. | 13yrs

UBS has settled with a US regulator over claims that it mis-sold mortgage-backed investments between 2004 and 2007. | 13yrs

Using Taobao to help with IP enforcement is the way forward, says Paolo Beconcini | 13yrs

BP has received another setback in its aims to limit compensation payments relating to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill at Deepwater Horizon. | 13yrs

Jones Day is on its way to creating a template for municipal bankruptcy in the US. | 13yrs

UK lawyers have just three weeks to respond to a UK government review which may see major changes to the tax advantages of limited liability partnerships. | 13yrs

US financial services company Standard & Poor finds itself facing a $5 billion civil fraud lawsuit after the US government was given the go-ahead by a federal ruling to pursue the case, despite S&P's attempt to have the lawsuit dismissed. | 13yrs

Italian luxury retailer Loro Piana, which has more than 130 boutiques worldwide, has just sold an 80 per cent stake for $2.6 billion. | 13yrs

The International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) has this week written to US President Barack Obama in an appeal for the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba after Muslim prisoners were force-fed during the Ramadan fasting period. | 13yrs

Pharma company GlaxoSmithKline is sending lawyers out to China as part of a team to get to the bottom of the corruption allegations made by the Chinese authorities. | 13yrs