• January 27, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Secured Transactions

    Financial institutions in the United States that sell loan participations ordinarily seek by doing so to remove, or "derecognize," the underlying loans and commitments from their balance sheet

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  • January 4, 2010 | Focus Europe

    Bully Pulpit: Out Like a Lion

    Neelie Kroes has finished up the final year of her five-year term as the European Union's competition commissioner with a crescendo of activity. In 2009 she ordered the Royal Bank of Scotland Group pl

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  • April 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Schlumberger / Smith Industries span style="f

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  • January 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    The Lifesavers

    The last two years were a crucible for Citigroup Inc., the New York-based financial services behemoth and the biggest client of the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &

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  • May 8, 2012 | International

    Cadwalader Adds Jones Day Capital Markets Team in Hong Kong

    Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has recruited a three-partner capital ma team from the Hong Kong office of Jones Day. The addition of Jeffrey Maddox, Jones Day's Asia capital ma

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  • November 28, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    U.S. Firms Line Up to Enter South Korea Market

    Less than a week after a free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States was finalized, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton announced Monday that it plans to open a Seoul offi

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  • May 17, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    PROMOTIONS METLIFE INC. (New York): Nicholas Latrenta has been named general counsel at the company, succeeding James Lipscomb, who retired aft

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  • September 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The 2012 Global 100: Revenue Per Lawyer

    Revenue per lawyer among the highest-grossing Global 100 firms averaged $830,000 in 2011. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is at the top of this chart with an RPL over $2 million. Twenty ot

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  • January 9, 2013 | International

    DLA Piper Hires Hong Kong Projects Partner

    DLA Piper has added a project finance partner in Hong Kong.   Carolyn Dong is joining from a href="http://www.kwm

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  • November 1, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Banking on China

    Anthony Root spent much of this year working in a room without windows -- and, after 6 p.m., without air-conditioning -- in a dim Beijing office tower that locals call "the black turd." Hardly

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