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Managing risk and regulation: advising corporate clients in uncertain times

Posted: 31 March 2009

Speakers

Rick Haythornthwaite, Chairman, Risk and Regulation Advisory Council
Mark Harding, Group General Counsel, Barclays

The issues discussed included:

  • Does the new focus on risk signal the end of the less-is-more era in regulatory reform?
  • What do major corporations need from their advisers on regulatory compliance and risk management?
  • Will the current economic crisis change the risk and regulation landscape for firms outside the financial sector?
  • Are the clients of corporate law firms too sophisticated to need the protection of existing legal regulation?
  • How important to the recovery of the domestic economy are the services provided by Britain's international law firms to corporate clients doing business in many jurisdictions?
  • Whatever happened to better regulation?

More information on this legal breakfast is available in the flyer.
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A summary of the discussion is also available.
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