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Building the future

As Ireland’s banking system teetered on the brink of collapse in the wake of the global financial crisis, the Irish government took action. Invoking an emergency measure of the first bank guarantee in Europe, it tackled the underlying problems in th

  • Boardroom perspective

      • Round-up

      • At the sharp end

        Judging by the number of articles and conferences devoted to the subject during the last year or so, it would appear that social media

      • Calling the fire brigade

        The impact of the recent economic downturn on Europe’s in-house lawyers has been felt nowhere more keenly than in the banking sec

  • Comment

      • Rights and reponsibilities

        The challenges and opportunities corporate and securities law plays in encouraging companies to respect human rights were highlighted l

  • Country profile

      • Above the fray

        Above the fray

        Switzerland

        Cataclysmic world events – wars, pestilience, civil strife and economic crisis – have come and gone, and all of them, at fi

  • Features

  • Head to head

      • Necessary modernisation

        Ireland

        Long awaited reform and modernisation of defamation law in Ireland has unfortunately been overshadowed by ill informed and somewhat hys

      • Blaspheme and be damned

        Ireland

        Why has the Irish government introduced a medieval canon law offence into the criminal law of a modern pluralist democratic republic? O

  • In brief

      • Fragile recovery predicted after last year’s gloom

        Initial public offerings (IPOs) are set to rise in Europe, signalling that economic recovery across the continent is solidifyin

      • The big deals

        Swiss law firm Homburger advised multi-national packaged foods conglomorate Nestlé on the sale of its remaining shares in Alcon,

      • On the move

        Italian firm NCTM has hired two new partners for its mergers and acquisitions and consultancy practice in Rome: Piero Corigliano joins

      • Briefing notes

        law firms continued to suffer despite Britain gradually emerging from recession, according to figures released last month. Fee income a

  • Sections

      • Going vertical

        Reform around the corner for European supply and distribution agreements  Evelyne Friedel

      • In the zone

        In the zone

        Lithuania

        While snow covers much of Kaunas and Klaipeda – Lithuania’s free economic zones (FEZs) – this winter, economi

      • In too deep

        Germany

        Over-indebted companies do not currently have to file for insolvency in Germany if they have a positive continuation forecast. The over

      • Dante’s inferno

        Dante’s inferno

        United Kingdom

        Institutional investors have been awaiting a UK court ruling as to the value of their investments in structured notes that were arrange

      • Getting it back

        Getting it back

        Romania

        Last year’s presidential elections in Romania and the appointment of a new government triggered the launch of a raft of socially-

  • Transatlantic dialogue