Chapman Tripp – 13 February 2018 More vibrant equity capital markets may be on the horizon for New Zealand – but not this year, Chapman Tripp says. The firm today released its annual Equity Capital Markets – trends and insights report, which tips 2018 to be a transitional year to healthier capital markets from 2019 […]
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Clifford Chance – Climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy are top of the political agenda and present a range of challenges for businesses. We help clients to future-proof their businesses and identify risks and opportunities. Greening the Financial System In this publication we have brought together our team to outline developments
Proskauer Rose – Facebook recently announced that it would make changes to its news feed to prioritize content that users share and discuss and material from “reputable publishers.” These changes are part of what Mark Zuckerberg says is a refocusing of Facebook from “helping [users] find relevant content to helping [users] have more meaningful social
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Wicker Group – Throughout my many years working with law firms, I have found that interactive games can be a welcome addition to any firm retreat. In particular, games that help lawyers learn more about their colleagues are often more effective than traditional practice group panel presentations. As firms grow and change, it is important
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RepKnight – Legal firms have access to some of the most sensitive data imaginable about their clients – whether corporate or private. And just like any other company, they hold personal information about their employees, such as home address, contact details, bank account numbers and pension information. But just how secure is the average law
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1 February 2018 – Mayer Brown announced today that its innovative Global Mobility & Migration team, which is an essential component of the firm’s Employment & Benefits practice, has launched a blog, “The Mobile Workforce.” The blog is designed to provide businesses with up-to-date changes pertaining to global migration developments and trends. Mayer Brown partners
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Skadden Arps – The past few years have brought a number of large rights offerings in bankruptcies in the energy, healthcare, and retail sectors. Between January 1, 2015, and December 1, 2017, more than $5.5 billion was raised through rights offerings or private placements in more than two dozen large bankruptcy cases. In 2017 alone,
Rights Offerings Prove Popular with Debtors and Distressed Investors Read More »
Slaughter & May – Superhuman Resources Slaughter and May and ASI Data Science, the high-growth British Technology firm, have published Superhuman Resources, a joint white paper on the responsible deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business. We believe that AI could become the most transformative workplace technology of the 21st Century, with the associated need
Harris Beach PLC – With President Trump’s recent announcement of import tariffs on solar panels, the domestic solar energy industry now faces an additional challenge – how to continue to generate cost-competitive power in order to continue recent gains and achieve even greater energy market penetration. In recent years, U.S. solar developers have begun
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Ogletree Deakins – As Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer at Ogletree Deakins, I have seen that law firms specifically, and the legal industry, generally, face external pressures from clients, outside counsel, and diversity groups to maintain diversity initiatives. Recently, some of that pressure has been coming from sources internal to law firms—namely, their own
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