Once again, the movement of a team of senior lawyers from one prestigious law firm to another in Hong Kong has hit the headlines as well as adding to the substantial body of decided cases on employment law.

In the 'conventional' finance space, asset-backed financings have proved a successful method of funding social and civil infrastructure.

The district court concluded that § 145's "all expenses" provision was neither specific nor explicit enough to authorize recovery of attorneys' fees. The PTO appealed.

A new amnesty program to incentivize the repatriation of funds kept abroad by Mexican taxpayers was launched.

A recent change by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is receiving praise for its thoughtful approach to imposing financial penalties upon corporations. On January 4, Chairman Christopher Cox announced that the SEC had revised the process for determining when to impose a fine on a corporation as a penalty for alleged securities violations.

White & Case's Corporate Defense and Special Litigation practice provides counsel to corporations and their leaders in domestic and international civil and criminal enforcement, including criminal and securities fraud, health care fraud, financial institution fraud, antitrust violations, environmental statutory enforcement actions, criminal tax matters, international boycott and trade restriction cases, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters.

Among other provisions, the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act required the US Treasury Department to issue regulations regarding due diligence and enhanced due diligence with respect to correspondent accounts established or maintained by US financial institutions for non-US financial institutions and private banking accounts established or maintained for non-US persons.

There is a longstanding history of tension between local governments and street vendors. To be sure, areas such as the famous streets of SoHo in New York and the Santa Monica Promenade and Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles are known for the "flair" of the vendors and artists who occupy their sidewalks.

In early March, Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemicals wrapped up financing arrangements for a $9.9 billion petrochemical plant in the coastal city of Rabigh, marking the largest project financing to date in Saudi Arabia. Just as significantly, the funding package also included the largest-ever long-term Islamic finance tranche for any project financing in the Middle East.

The 2013 amendments to the Mexican Constitution and Mexico's new Telecom Law require Mexico's federal government to build a nationwide fiber optic backbone network, which will be called the Red Troncal.

Agreement has been reached on revisions to the European Union (EU) Directive that will update rules on the audit of company accounts (Audit Directive). Once the text of the measure is available in all the EU’s official languages, it will be formally adopted by the European Council (Council), probably during the first quarter of 2006.

Apple also asserted its "universal search" patent that permits a user to search for results from both the phone and the internet based on a single search term.

The reach of US law has recently been extended. A new fast-track extradition regime between the US and the UK, coupled with the aggressive approach of the US authorities towards prosecuting alleged white-collar criminals and the willingness of the US courts to adopt a broad approach to assuming jurisdiction over a defendant, means UK executives are facing heightened risks of being extradited from their home country to the US for alleged white-collar crimes.

India is booming and that means business is booming for Indian lawyers involved in international transactions. The elite Indian law firms who can service such transactions to international standards are seriously overstretched.

As part of the Tax Reform that became effective on January 1, 2014, the Mexican Congress passed a series of amendments to the Federal Tax Code for the purpose of modernizing and facilitating the compliance and enforcement of tax obligations.

Recent changes in Peruvian insolvency laws will now allow financial institutions and insurance company counterparties to close-out and net obligations under derivatives and repurchase agreements with Peruvian financial institutions or insurance companies which become subject to bankruptcy proceedings.

In 2005, the SEC adopted Rule 202(a)(11)-1 to provide an exception from the definition of "investment adviser" under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act) for certain broker-dealers that provide non-discretionary advice solely incidental to their brokerage activities.

On 13 October 2011, the Council of the European Union (EU) adopted further amendments to the EU sanctions measures against Syria – this time imposing an asset freeze on the Commercial Bank of Syria – in Council Decision 2011/684/CFSP.

An act recently passed in Congress, intended to tighten controls on foreign capital inflows, could derail your best-laid deals.

The Secondaries panel was a big draw, as it had a standing room-only crowd that spilled out into the hallway.