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Cover story People and firms Deal digest News analysis Features Awards Japan Luxembourg Romania Singapore South Korea Turkey US capital markets July 1996 to present Europe 2008 Americas 2008 Asia 2008 Middle East 2007 Previous awards Singapore Conference 2007 Mon, Oct 15 PDF 2Mb Tue, Oct 16 PDF 3Mb Wed, Oct 17 PDF 3Mb Thu, Oct 18 PDF 2.5Mb London Fall 2007 Wed, Oct 3 PDF 1Mb Thu, Oct 4 PDF 0.3Mb Fri, Oct 5 PDF 0.4Mb  Editorial Did he just say that?  May 2008 "The credit crunch is not a trend, it's a breakfast cereal"  Cover story Stop persecuting ratings agencies  May 2008 Nothing about this financial crisis is their fault. Disingenuous banking and lazy investors are the problem Who took home the trophies?  April 2008 The awards results from Asia and Europe. Linklaters will be very happy, but it didn't have the best cufflinks  Awards Deals and teams of the year The winners from New York  May 2008 Plus national and in-house team awards Shearman & Sterling: Americas law firm of the year  April 2008 Last night, Shearman & Sterling won law firm of the year at the IFLR Americas awards at the Waldorf Astoria in New York Asia awards Asia deals of the year  April 2008 All the regular categories, plus the first private equity deal of the year Asia awards Asia teams of the year  April 2008 Including winners for the regional, China practice and pro-bono awards Europe awards Europe deals of the year  April 2008 How Linklaters justified its international firm of the year award Europe awards Europe teams of the year  April 2008 Including all 23 national winners The alternative awards Rewards for the process  April 2008 IFLR tips its hat to muffins, jelly beans and cufflinks shaped like insects  People and firms Herbies and CC go to Saudi; European Commission lawyer joins Howrey; UBS gets in-house counsel from Lovells  May 2008 All change at the FSA; Skadden Arps opens in Brazil; Baker & McKenzie hires from Citi  April 2008  Deal digest Visa floats largest-ever IPO; TPG's innovative funding of WaMu; Tata takes over Jaguar from Ford  May 2008 NY trading platform bought; Largest UK Islamic financing of land; Bear Stearns is the latest crunch victim  April 2008  The interview Foreigners need local funds  May 2008 Kathleen Ng of Asia Private Equity Research explains how to get into China Activist shareholder duties  April 2008 UCLA professors Lynn Stout and Iman Anabtawi argue that activist hedge funds should have fiduciary duties  Leaders New acquisition finance terms  May 2008 Anecdotal evidence of changing contracts An unknown NYSE exception  May 2008 How banks are getting away with fund raising Court adds strength  April 2008 French tender offer commitments reinforced Clearing dead wood  April 2008 SEC rule proposals not without controversy  News analysis UK will get hedge funds  May 2008 Whether on market abuse or controls War over Indian derivatives  May 2008 Counsel advise clients to not pay banks Sub-prime litigation hits Hong Kong  May 2008 Why is IMF meddling with sovereign wealth?  May 2008 Hong Kong needs a secondary exchange  May 2008 Basel II changes too vague  May 2008 Charlie McCreevy dithers over liquidity UK and US plan joint regulator  May 2008 Basel Committee: We got it wrong  May 2008 US Treasury plan doesn't go far enough  May 2008 List in US, get Europe free  May 2008 The first change from NYSE/Euronext Sovereign wealth regulation is ''Newspeak''  May 2008 FSA: Better liquidity regulation now  May 2008 The US guidelines for hedge funds in detail  May 2008 Freddie Mac for the UK  May 2008 Mark to market must change  May 2008 It creates needless volatility for the banks Mutual recognition could lead to global harmonisation  May 2008 Covered bonds to mop-up  April 2008 They will replace mortgage securitisation Europe regulates SWFs  April 2008 Commission and council agree on code Bear shareholders delay  April 2008 Original offer increased five-fold Structured product regulation  April 2008 If UK banks don't educate investors Humiliation works in China  April 2008 It's the new method for public enforcement US joint product approval  April 2008 SEC and CFTC agreement will speed up deals UK risk unit created, at last  April 2008 Basel II risk models can now be managed New Japanese poison pill  April 2008 If exercised, it'll dilute shareholder stakes US Treasury's steps to financial improvement  April 2008 China to launch smaller equities market  April 2008 Lawyers oppose Chapter 11 for UK  April 2008  Profile Fun in the steam shovel  May 2008 Stewart Landefeld of Washington Mutual on the troubled lender's (accidental) innovation Uniting Islamic finance  April 2008 Group discussion will create Middle Eastern best practice, says Amol Prabhu of BarCap  Features UK covered bonds From good to gold  April 2008 The new regime will be even more popular than previous, structured deals Spanish mortgages Flexibility, and new products  April 2008 Scepticism of mortages and their securitisation should be overturned by new Spanish law China Column Push the door, it's unlocked  April 2008 Downstream foreign investment is possible in China, but not everyone realises it yet Asia M&A Forum Big Macs and champagne  April 2008 Report from the IFLR Forum in Hong Kong Capital markets  Speaking out on the big issues  May 2008 At the Capital Markets Forum, Europe's top lawyers and banks debated the financial crisis and how regulation and deals are reacting. Here are the best stories from the event China listings abroad Limited to 300 companies  May 2008 Those that set up offshore before M&A laws Unwinding contracts UK remains hands-off  May 2008 Does your contract spell out valuations? Brazil securitisation A new market in lawsuits  May 2008 Get bonds when local government can't pay Equity derivatives Market relief in Australia  May 2008 Final guidance is a big improvement M&A  Mac clauses New ways to kill a deal  May 2008 Appearing in court is changing the drafting of Macs China column Keep corporates simple  May 2008 Dual levels of shares are still too hard Japan M&A Still strong and fast  May 2008 How legislation is pushing forward deals Project finance and banking  Protected cell companies Will they survive insolvency?  May 2008 They aren't necessarily recognised in law Cayman Islands Still like the UK  May 2008 The key Cayman insolvency test Environment risk Carbon and Equator  May 2008 The former has a lot to teach the latter Financial regulation  US regulatory reform Hobbled by politics  May 2008 The presidential race is distorting debate over the Blueprint US regulatory reform Broad, shallow and vague  May 2008 The US treasury proposals in detail UK credit crunch reaction This is the whole sorry story  May 2008 A primer on how the markets fell apart US litigation Alien concepts for Chinese  May 2008 Why they will struggle in a US courtroom Dangerous rules for Hong Kong takeover hearings Islamic financing will bring liquidity to Europe Lenient net capital rules caused Bear Stearns "Debt buy-backs" force change to bank documentation Clarity still unclear on Cfius proposals Singapore must punish negligent Chinese listings Collateralised loan obligations will save structured finance The best quotes from an action packed forum more... Rescue your conduit Middle East Awards Lehman counsel to Herbies; Mayer Brown sets up in Brazil; The creation of Dewey & LeBoeuf Protectionism wins in Suez; The innovative refinancing of Millau; First equitization in Vietnam The credit crisis

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