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The Financial Times features article "Fund managers: Prepare for Bribery Act" written by Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP partners Carl Winkworth (London) and William P. Barry (Washington D.C.). The article identifies...

"Now You Have a Security, Now You Don't - Antifraud and Anti-Manipulation Regimes for Loan Derivatives Products Under Dodd-Frank," by Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP partners Julia Lu and Eva Marie Carney, was published in the March 2011 issue of the Futures & Derivatives Law Report. This article highlights...

In a case of great significance to the United States secondary loan market, on January 11, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit firmly established that the ancient doctrine of "champerty" – originally a prohibition on the transfer of litigation claims – has no further...

In a closely-watched case important to the debt trading market, New York’s highest court recently decided that New York’s champerty statute does not bar the assignment of litigation claims to enforce rights in related debt instruments. Partner Brian S. Fraser briefly...

"Trust me" might previously have been an accepted response to questions posed by an adviser’s clients and regulators. Questions about portfolio management, valuation of assets, the security of client funds, and the adviser's use and reliance on third party custodians...

Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP partner William Barry acted as contributing author to The International Lawyer, an award-winning quarterly legal journal...

New York's highest court is poised to decide whether litigation claims may be purchased and asserted by a debt holder or whether the arcane doctrine of champerty, as codified in New York by statute, may bar a debt holder from...

The market for interest rate swaps – a derivative product in which one party pays to the other party interest based on a fixed rate in exchange for payment of interest based on a floating rate – now exceeds $309 trillion. The market for interest rate swaps has...

Anti-corruption and anti-bribery initiatives are the current focus of regulators around the globe. Aggressive enforcement of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("US-FCPA") by U.S. regulators, including enforcement actions against companies based outside of the United States for conduct...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board last week adopted Rule 3526 regarding Communication with Audit Committees Regarding Independence. The Board's action concluded a rulemaking focused on assuring that public company audit committees have before them, at the time they consider...

In response to more stringent anti-corruption standards, increased enforcement and greater cooperation among regulators in the international community, investment businesses and global corporations are finding themselves in the...

On February 25, 2008, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) - self-described as "the investigative arm of Congress" - released to the public its long-awaited Hedge Funds Report. The key question in many observers' minds was whether the GAO Report...

Memorandum to Clients and Friends of the Firm Regarding Recent Decision Entering Temporary Restraining Order Barring Secondary Market Purchasers of Loan Participations from Bringing Tort Claims Against Agent Bank Download Memorandum Download Order...

Article regarding Challenges For Operating Cross-Border Investment Businesses: Meeting Compliance Expectations on a Global Scale by...