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Davis Polk, King & Wood on Proposed $3.6 Billion IPO for Chinese Insurer
The planned offering by PICC Ltd., if successful, will be the largest Hong Kong IPO by a mainland Chinese company since 2010.SEC takes down Web site linking firms to countries on terrorism list
WASHINGTON AP - Bowing to pressure from a powerful congressman and companies with international operations, the Securities and Exchange Commission has taken down a Web site that listed businesses with interests in countries on a terrorism watch list.SEC Chairman Christopher Cox issued a statement late Friday that said the commission was "temporarily suspending" the site, which was launched last month.Irving Picard, the trustee for Madoff investors, had been seeking up to $1 billion from the Swiss bank, which is represented by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The deal marks the largest feeder fund bank cash settlement to date in this proceeding.
SEC Web site shows companies with activities in countries on State Dept. terrorism list
WASHINGTON AP - The government has launched a Web site that allows investors to track whether companies have business interests in countries the U.S. designates as "state sponsors of terrorism."The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday introduced the site, which links to information from the companies' most recent annual reports that reference any of the five listed countries.Freshfields' Restructuring Marks a Break With the Past
This year, for the first time ever, London's Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was sued by a former partner. Never mind the damages sought; the publicity was bad enough. The suit and the internal wranglings it exposed are testimony to a cultural shift at Freshfields, which had always prided itself on a certain collegiality. Underperformers have been weeded out, and the firm's equity partnership fundamentally altered. Now, as the bloodletting draws to a close, partners insist that the upheaval was worth it.Trending Stories
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