UK IRN Research Publishes Business Legal Services Market Report

There are 13 vertical sectors listed by more than 50 law firms, led by real estate (101 firms), financial services & insurance (97 firms), and hospitality, leisure and sport (91 firms). Another 10 sectors reach double figures, i.e. mentioned by more than 10 firms. Some vertical sectors are already starting to
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The Assistant General Counsel – Real Estate will provide professional legal advice, counsel, support and guidance to Invenergy's business operations, focused on the real estate interests of the company as related to its renewable and thermal generation portfolio. This attorney will support Invenergy's
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Knauf KG, at 25 percent above USG's closing price last week, signals further confidence in the Chicago-based company and the U.S. housing market. USG has repaired its finances and returned to growth as home starts rebounded to 1.2 million last year, twice as much as during the depths of the crisis
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Mortgage rates today increased significantly in the 30-year fixed products, while remaining the same for shorter-term periods. We won't get any pertinent financial reporting this morning, so mortgage borrowers and investors will have to make their best guesses using economic data (see below) and
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Less than two weeks after three major real estate agencies in Singapore launched their own real estate app, Carousell has announced a partnership with one of the largest property agencies in the country. The real estate agency OrangeTee & Tie will collaborate with Carousell to make real estate even
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PARENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES NEED TO BE AWARE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY. South Dakota Housing has recently announced a new grant program for recent graduates of an accredited academic institution. South Dakota Housing can now package a low interest rate mortgage loan with a
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Shaun Cathcart, a senior economist at the Canadian Real Estate Association said the province's real estate market continues to firm up. Year-to-date, the province saw an 8.6 per cent increase in sales compared to the previous year. “Over the first two months of 2018, some 858 homes have traded
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Net sales of UCITS peaked in January, supported by a very strong demand for equity funds, according to The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA). The report, EFAMA's latest Investment Funds Industry Fact Sheet was released on 26 March, and provides a breakdown of net
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Several other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in AIG. Element Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in American International Group in the 4th quarter valued at about $19,161,000. Vident Investment Advisory LLC grew its stake in American
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Job Description. Interior Specialists, Inc. (ISI) is the nation's leading provider of interior design, design center management and interior finishing installation services for single-family, multi-family, and commercial builders. We are looking to hire a commercial real estate attorney with other transactional
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Spain's effort to get hold of former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont will start a cascade of court procedures in Germany that could drag on for months. Puigdemont, who was arrested on Sunday as he crossed into Germany from Denmark by car, will first appear before a judge on Monday who will
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Markets with more insurers have lower premiums, while prices rise when hospitals buy physician groups. Though these are vertical deals, they will add to the market power of major players in already heavily consolidated industries, which seems like a recipe for monopolistic behavior. True, reducing the
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Although home-purchase activity has held up so far, the combination of rising interest rates, low housing inventory and high housing prices could all threaten this in the long term. Lenders have started to focus more on home-equity credit lines and adjustable-rate mortgages, as initial rates for them are
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You've probably heard plenty about how a new mortgage stress test and an interest rate hike are affecting the Ontario housing market. But these are only some of the factors that could affect the market in coming months. A provincial election, slippery debt levels, and surge of homebuyer demand could
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The European Commission wants to give the European Securities and Markets Authority increased powers over the funds industry. ESMA would have the final say over whether delegation rights apply, or whether firms will have to increase their physical presence within the bloc to continue to service
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The North Carolina based non-bank mortgage servicing company RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corporation (RPMS) announced its selection as a subservicing partner for Neighborhood Lending Services (NLS). NLS is Illinois' largest nonprofit mortgage lender and an affiliate of Neighborhood
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“Over the past few years, we have been transforming our U.S. Retail Bank into a growth engine in our core markets while developing new mobile banking capabilities as a platform to one day serve consumers nationwide. That day is here,” said Stephen Bird, CEO of Citi's Global Consumer Bank.
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Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, tweeted up a storm on Thursday, reassuring internet users that they could reassert control over their data — and the web's future — after the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook scandals. He's right, but not necessarily in the way he
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Freddie Mac has priced a new offering of Structured Pass-Through Certificates (K Certificates), totaling $667 million, backed by seven-year fixed-rate multifamily mortgages. The certificates were put in place on behalf of 13 properties across the western United States. J.P. Morgan Securities and Morgan
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Mainland developer Fullson International has acquired five floors in a Kowloon East office project from CSI Properties and Phoenix Property Investors for HK$1.3 billion ($169 million), a filing by the company shows. Fullson's announcement of the deal comes just a week after the Fuzhou-based
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