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Linklaters has published research on FTSE 100 companies in which it says that the number of revolts on boardroom pay declined in 2014 and looks likely to fall lower next year. | 11yrs

Thomson Reuters is to provide online legal and tax research to the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in a deal which could see up to 20,000 officials use the company's services. | 11yrs

A report in Spiegel magazine, citing unnamed sources, has claimed that the bank might need to increase its legal provisions by 30 per cent. | 11yrs

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has recruited a new head for its London office who will also be charged with growing its European private equity practice. | 11yrs

The Italian justice minister is planning a series of justice reforms, including changes which could see the timing for civil trials come down from at least three years to just one. | 11yrs

Quinn Emanuel has recruited competition litigation partner Boris Bronfentrinker from Hausfield & Co in order to launch a London anti-trust team. | 11yrs

Announcing that it expects to exceed £750m of revenues this year, the alternative business structure (ABS) Quindell has said it expects to hit £1b 'in due course'. | 11yrs

A growing number of organisations working in the legalised area of marijuana are finding that lawyers, bankers and others are unwilling to do business with them. | 11yrs

In an unusually active period covering the first eight months of this year, when 49 companies joined the main UK stock market, Freshfields acted for more sponsors and Linklaters for more bankers than other firms. | 11yrs

A law firm based in the Netherlands is soon to bring a lawsuit on behalf of Dutch families who lost relatives when Malaysia Airlines MH17 went down over Ukraine in July. | 11yrs

Some 720 of the Korean civil servants who have retired in the last five years have been taken on by law firms, conglomerates and financial companies. | 11yrs

Leading London firm Leigh Day has been supported by a London court in a dispute with another law firm about the representation of Nigerian clients seeking compensation from oil giant Shell. | 11yrs

The newly-formed e-discovery practice of KPMG in Canada has acquired Montreal-based Ledjit Consulting. | 11yrs

The majority shareholder in Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB), Tsvetan Vasilev, has alleged that a law firm has been plotting against his bank. | 12yrs

Allen & Overy is to become the first Magic Circle practice to open its own office in sub-Saharan Africa when a six-lawyer team will set up a Johannesburg office for the firm this month. | 12yrs

Godwin Lewis, the Texas law firm acting for Halliburton on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is laying off 17 lawyers and six staff after agreeing a US$1.1b settlement last month. | 12yrs

About 77 per cent of the fines levied in the US for anti-trust breaches since 2015 have been imposed on Asian companies, according to research from the Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry. | 12yrs

The departure of two directors from HSBC in the UK could be part of a trend in which many other directors stand down, according to lawyers and other advisers. | 12yrs

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom did more M&A deals by value, worth US$484b, in the first nine months of 2014, with Kirkland & Ellis leading on the volume (263 deals). | 12yrs