Foley Hoag – As part of our Year in Preview series, we’ve recently covered both international cyberwar and the rise of cryptocurrency. Just before the holidays, both of these topics collided in a decidedly unpleasant manner. On December 19, the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Youbit filed for bankruptcy, disclosing that it had just suffered a […]
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP – Joshua Rittenberg, Kevin Scanlan After lingering on the periphery of financial markets for the past several years, cryptocurrency has finally started to move into the mainstream. While the explosion in Bitcoin’s value dominated the news headlines, cryptocurrency in 2017 was filled with worthy topics of discussion. For the […]
Skadden – On November 8, 2017, a bipartisan group of legislators led by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., alongside co-sponsors including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced parallel legislation in both the Senate and House of Representatives to update and strengthen the legal authorities of the Committee on Foreign […]
MinterEllisonRuddWatts The significant and continuing development of New Zealand’s financial services legislation (generally after the 2008 global financial crisis, although not solely as a consequence of the crisis), has engendered an increased interest by both providers and investors in “discretionary investment management services” (DIMS). As a consequence of improved regulation and investment flexibility under a […]
Lathams – In recent years, Chinese companies have become increasingly bold in the search for new deals, looking beyond the country’s borders for transformational takeovers. This year already, we have seen the largest ever outbound deal attempted by a Chinese company, with ChemChina’s $43billon bid for Swiss agribusiness Syngenta. As China becomes more relaxed about […]