Bingham McCutchen (London) LLP

About this office:

Bingham McCutchen LLP is an international law firm with 13 offices on three continents. The firm is focused on serving clients in complex financial transactions, a wide variety of sophisticated corporate and technology matters, and high-stakes litigation.

Collaboration, focused diversification and growth by merger and acquisition are the cornerstones of Bingham McCutchen's success, resulting in a decade of dramatic growth. Since 1995, Bingham McCutchen has more than quadrupled in size, growing to more than 950 lawyers today. Poised to conduct legal business worldwide, the firm has positioned itself in leading financial centers throughout the world, such as New York, London and Tokyo, while developing a significant and robust East Coast-West Coast presence in the United States.

At Bingham McCutchen LLP, we offer you focused strengths in a broad range of critical disciplines. Our practices include: Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Appellate; Banking; Base Reuse; Bioscience; Broker-Dealer Litigation; Business Regulation and White Collar Defense; Commercial Technology; Construction and Project Finance Litigation; Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Group; Emerging Growth Companies; Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation; Energy and Resources; Environmental; Environmental and Land Use Litigation; Estate Planning; Financial Institutions Regulatory and Corporate; Financial Restructuring; General Corporate and Securities; Insolvency and Financial Services Litigation; Institutional Finance; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation; International Trade Law; Investment Management; Japanese Practice; Labor and Employment; Land Use; Privacy and Security; Private Equity; Product Liability; Project and Structured Finance; Project Development; Real Estate; Real Estate Litigation; Securities and Corporate Governance Litigation; Sports, Entertainment and Media; Tax.

The FSA's Disclosure Regime for Short Positions in Companies Undertaking Rights Issues and Proposed Regime for Contracts for Difference ("CFDs")
Helen J. Marshall, Peter Bibby, July 22, 2008
From 20 June 2008, new provisions were incorporated into the Financial Services Authority's ("FSA") Code of Market Conduct, which have the effect of requiring the disclosure of short positions above a threshold limit (0.25%) in companies which are undertaking rights issues.

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