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An Interview With Latham & Watkins

Best Lawyers

Germany's 2020 “Law Firm of the Year” honoree in Banking and Finance Law

Q&A with Plinio Pinheiro Guimarães of Pinheiro Guimarães

Best Lawyers

An interview with Plinio Pinheiro Guimarães of Brazilian "Law Firm of the Year" Pinheiro Guimarães.

Debt-Finance: The Five Things our Private Equity Client are Thinking about Going into 2017

Simon Reid

So, what should business borrowers – private equity or otherwise - keep front of mind right now when it comes to financing debt?

Return the Favor When Bidding

Denys Myrgorodskiy

Denys Myrgorodskiy, the managing partner of Dynasty Law Firm, looks at the process of withdrawing insolvent banks from the market in Ukraine and its potential consequences.

An Interview With Walter Uebelhoer of Allen & Overy, 2019 "Law Firm of the Year" Award-Winner for Banking Law in Germany

Best Lawyers

Best Lawyers CEO Phillip Greer in conversation with the leading attorney at the Allen & Overy, a 2019 "Law Firm of the Year" winner.

If a true lender challenge is successful, the Fintech company may face significant civil and criminal penalties for failing to be licensed as a lender, and the loans may be usurious and void in some jurisdictions.

FinTech Might Put Your Data Privacy at Risk

FinTech Innovation Poses Data Privacy Challenges

Michael Brown

FinTech companies are disrupting traditional financial models—and creating new data privacy concerns.

What Are Bank Directors so Worried About?

Bone McAllester Norton

Five action areas that should be on the board's agenda now.

Hot Topics in Bank Supervision

Alston & Bird

An Interview With Eberhard Braun of Schultze & Braun

Best Lawyers

The 2019 "Law Firm of the Year" winning firm was recognized in Germany for Restructuring and Insolvency Law.

Basel III and New Challenges for Lending to Commercial Developments

Verrill Dana

The Promised Land

Jennifer Alvey

Real work-life balance and sophisiticated practice at a women-owned law firm.

What Were They Thinking?

Quarles & Brady

Supreme Court of New Jersey Affirms Rules as to Priority of Discretionary Advance Mortgages

Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti

Outcomes Focus: Environmental Impact Bonds are All About Results

Jeremy King

Environmental Impact Bonds offer governments, investors and non-government participants the opportunity to focus on outcomes rather than activities.

Q&A with Pablo Perezalonso Eguía of Ritch Mueller

Best Lawyers

An interview with Pablo Perezalonso Eguía of 2018 Mexican "Law Firm of the Year" Ritch Mueller.

Related-Party Transactions in Chile

Roberto Guerrero V. and Tomás Kubick

A significant change in law and practice.

Will Facebook Err on the Side of Free Speech?

In the News Weekly Roundup: Facebook's Free Speech Controversy

Best Lawyers

Recent news from Best Lawyers listed lawyers and firms. New hires at Akerman and King & Spalding, and a win for Greenberg Traurig.

Fighting Dark Money in Judicial Elections

Dark Matters

Robert A. Clifford

So-called dark money in judicial elections threatens to undermine public confidence in the courts. What can the legal profession do to combat it?

Clean Energy: Arena's Grant Funding and the New Clean Energy Innovation Fund

Clare Corke

On 23 March 2016, the Turnbull Government announced the establishment of a $1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund (CEIF) to provide debt and equity funding for clean energy projects.