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White & Case LLP opened an office in Madrid with the addition of partner Juan Manuel De Remedios, the former chairman of Latham & Watkins LLP’s corporate department in Spain. De Remedios, who will be joined by a local partner and a team of associates, will be the Madrid office executive partner.
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP corporate partner William R. Dougherty took over the chairmanship of the firm’s executive committee yesterday.
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The European draft rule to tighten hedge-fund regulations may hurt the industry in Asia as managers lose access to investors in the Europe Union, said Andrew Baker , who helms the industry’s largest trade group.
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Quest Diagnostics Inc. and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings fell after a man who accused the companies of Medicare fraud in lawsuits explained his allegations to a trade publication.
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Barclays Plc deliberately designed structured notes that would have a much higher risk of default than their triple-A rating suggested, lawyers for a San Marino bank told a London judge yesterday.
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Lenders’ liquidity should be examined in the next round of bank stress tests in the wake of the European Union’s fiscal crisis, the region’s economic and monetary affairs commissioner said.
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A group representing hedge funds urged policy makers against imposing “radical curbs” on credit-default swaps after a European Commission report found trading in the instruments didn’t trigger Greece’s financial crisis.
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The world’s largest hedge-fund advocacy group has named a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission official its chairman as the $2.1 trillion industry grapples with increased regulation.
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The largest hedge fund trade group plans to meet with U.K. regulators about proposed rules on pay, saying British firms don’t “encourage the reckless and short- termist behavior the bonus culture has created elsewhere.”
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Hedge funds are touting their record of creating jobs after politicians demanded increased regulation of the industry and restrictions on bonus payments.
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