International law firm Kirkland & Ellis has a 100-year history of offering outstanding legal services to its clientele globally. The firm is widely celebrated for providing high quality counsel in areas such as IP, litigation, tax, restructuring and c...

The management of institutional portfolios is becoming more and more complex: on the one hand investors increasingly seek broader diversification for their investments, while on the other they are confronted with a growing range of highly specialised asse...

Private equity in the US and elsewhere faces a turnaround as it recovers from what many predicted would be a near-death experience in the wake of the global financial crisis. The coming funding rounds in the US, Europe and elsewhere as houses pursue inves...

By the middle of 2009, the asset management industry had evolved into a more consolidated and less complex industry. Savings rates around the world grew, obliging the industry to respond to this new demand.The Portuguese case: industry analysisIn Portugal...

Political attention at first focused on the financial crisis but has now shifted towards regaining budgetary stability, the immediate objective being to bring the annual deficit below the Maastricht limit of three percent of GDP in 2011. That this goal is...

The summit will offer the opportunity to network, establish connections, exchange ideas and gain knowledge. As an invitation-only event taking place behind closed doors, the European Tax Summit is a unique interactive forum for leading tax executives worl...

Andrés Castro, CEO, ING ChileING Chile is part of ING Group, the Dutch-based global financial group. ING started operations in Chile in 1997. It has two million customers – nearly 12 percent of the country’s population as a whole, and i...

Our running discussion about transparency in 2010 has led to an interesting first year with this publication. Admittedly, I have not been universally acclaimed for staking out a rather simplistic position on transparency and the virtues of parallel online...

After a recession that prompted the US government to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on corporate bailouts, 81 percent of Americans told Harris Interactive that business's reputation is "not good" or "terrible." That marked a slight improvement from...

The European Commission and regulators in the US and the UK all fear that if another audit firm goes bust in the face of massive claims against it – or leaves the market because of financial and legal risks – the quality of corporate governance will b...