IFLR is part of Legal Benchmarking Limited, 1-2 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8ND

Copyright © Legal Benchmarking Limited and its affiliated companies 2025

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement

Search results for

There are 25,929 results that match your search.25,929 results
  • NYSE: may face investigation The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Securities and Exchange Commission reached a settlement with five firms last month over charges of improper trading, requiring the firms to pay a total of $241.8 million in penalties and reimbursements to investors and to improve their compliance systems.
  • US and European treasurers have released an issuer-friendly draft code of practice for ratings agencies that they would like to see adopted as standard practice.
  • A scheme of arrangement is a flexible form of corporate restructuring. Since early 2002 the Cayman Court has considered an unprecedented number of schemes, and has recognized and reflected the versatility, flexibility and utility of Cayman schemes in the changes to its rules, its approach to their management and in its recent decisions. It is clear that the Cayman Court understands the commercial necessity of implementing schemes in a timely and practical fashion. Recent developments underline this.
  • VW: well protected, for now The European Commission has told Germany that it must change a law has been used to block takeovers of car-maker Volkswagen or face court action.
  • Banks must simplify deals to keep Hong Kong's retail investors hungry for structured notes. By Richard Mazzochi, Scott Farrell and Abigail Rath
  • Europe's dithering over the equivalence of national accounting standards to IAS is forcing issuers to raise capital elsewhere, say Stephen Revell and David Cotton
  • The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has given the UK mutual funds industry a relatively clean bill of health, saying it is largely free of the trading practices that have rocked the US market over the past year.
  • A court ruling has threatened the enforceability of New York's model statute on securitization of tobacco revenues. Nicolas Weill of Moody's, New York, explains
  • Germany's parliament has amended the German Mortgage Bank Act to increase the legal certainty of security for investors in covered bonds.
  • The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to use a blend of regulatory reform and industry initiatives on improved disclosure to reform questionable soft commission and bundled services practices.