November 2004/2

Companies rarely volunteer to forego a lucrative proportion of their revenue streams but that is exactly what the industry’s international brokers have been doing in the wake of Spitzer’s allegations of price-fixing at Marsh.

The failure of lawyers Mel Weiss and Bill Lerach to see eye-to-eye led to the dissolution of their legendary shareholder class action law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP into two new partnerships – safely based on either side of the United S

Freshfields audit takes a new twist after senior UK broker suspended for allegedly receiving unauthorised commissions