Financial Services – Weekly Industry News

New Regulations in UK Will Hurt Debt Collection Success, FICO Survey Finds, Posted on insideARM.com  New regulations being considered by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will drive up collection costs and hurt collection rates. That’s an early finding from a new study being released next month by FICO (NYSE:FICO), a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, and Market…

Transfer Pricing Ukraine

Ukraine: Government adopts transfer pricing (TP) secondary legislation, By CMS Cameron McKenna Olexander Martinenko and Andriy Buzhor, Posted on Lexology Following the introduction of new TP rules into the Tax Code of Ukraine from 01 September 2013 (see our law-now article dated 06 August 2013), the Government of Ukraine has adopted secondary legislation aiming to further specify and clarify…

Anti-Corruption – Industry News

Police seal off Dino Melaye’s anti-corruption conference, By Ogala Emmanuel, Posted on Premium Times Scores of armed police officers, on Tuesday sealed off a Nicon Luxury hotel conference room where an anti-corruption conference was planned.The anti-corruption conference was planned by an organization promoted by former House of Representatives member turned anti-corruption campaigner, Dino Melaye. The police arrived in the early hours…

Denis O’Sullivan

Biography Denis began his career in Logistics at a well respected freight agent, Atlasair, in the Heathrow area. He continued his career with United Parcel Service holding various senior management roles rising to the position of General Manager of the airfreight division for the UK. Over a period of twenty years Denis gained hands on…

Patents and the Economic Crisis

Expert Article by Bart Van Wezenbeek The worldwide, but especially European economic crisis has lasted for about two years now and seems to hit the SMEs the hardest, at least in my country according to a newspaper today. A major part of the total of SMEs is formed by young start-up companies: they are still…

Bart Van Wezenbeek

Biography Bart van Wezenbeek studied biology (1988) at the Utrecht University and Dutch civil law (1994) at the University of Tilburg. Bart has specialized in biotechnology, in particular in genetic engineering of plants and animals, in (molecular) diagnostics and microbiology. He also has experience in providing freedom-to-operate advice. In 1997 Bart became a company lawyer.…

Announcing Matthew J. Everitt Co-Chairing C5’s Sixth Advanced Forum on Anti-Corruption in Frankfurt

    Speaker Announcement Matthew J. Everitt, Senior Counsel, Legal/Corporate Affairs and FCPA at Daimler AG will co-chair C5’s Sixth Advanced Forum on Anti-Corruption in Frankfurt, 29th & 30th January 2013 at the Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof, Frankfurt, Germany. Matthew J. Everitt, will join Caroline Visser, Vice-President – Global Head, Fraud and Compliance Services, Philips Internal…

Certainty and predictability in cross-border proceedings

Expert Article by Selinda A. Melnik The markets long have recognized as essential to financial transactions certainty and predictability in the application of insolvency laws. Such assurance is particularly important for transactions involving multiple nations with dissimilar domestic laws. In the face of increasingly global financial transactions, frameworks designed to better ensure certainty have been…

Selinda A. Melnik

Biography Selinda A. Melnik is a partner in DLA Piper’s Restructuring practice, based in Wilmington, Delaware and New York City. An internationally recognized lawyer, during her 27 years of practice she has represented every type of domestic and non-US party and committee customarily involved in sophisticated insolvency proceedings, out-of-court restructurings, and front-end transaction bankruptcy protection…