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• China’s new financing rules will improve documents

  17 Dec 2008

  China is allowing direct acquisition financing for the first time – and welcoming the complex documents needed to govern these transactions

• Lawyers lobby for a HK rescue regime

  12 Dec 2008

  As Asian companies begin to feel the pinch, the calls for a pre-insolvency regime in Hong Kong are getting louder

• Reits offer new finance source in China

  04 Dec 2008

  As companies across Asia struggle to refinance, China has come up with a novel solution. The government will allow Real Estate Investment Trusts (Reits) to set up

• There's an IFRS fight on

  01 Dec 2008

  Iasb's David Tweedie on the French

• Sensible rights issue reform, but it could have gone further

  01 Dec 2008

• Katrina Jackiewicz, Goldman Sachs

  01 Dec 2008

  The difficulties with working in Hong Kong for the first time. A diversity of laws and trying to find somewhere to go running

• The crisis debate

  01 Dec 2008

  Counsel debate liability from the credit crunch

• Standardised validation

  01 Dec 2008

  The gaps in welcome legislation

• Adjust to changing times

  01 Dec 2008

  Law firm strategy around the world

• Ignoring trustees is very risky

  01 Dec 2008

  The ambiguity in intercreditor agreements

• The great deleveraging

  01 Dec 2008

  Opportunities for investment funds

• Make money from the crisis

  01 Dec 2008

  Ten ways to take advantage

• Don't sacrifice competition

  01 Dec 2008

  The Commission needs to be stronger

• Selective but effective bailout

  01 Dec 2008

  A political but impressively fast plan

• Market disruption clause

  01 Dec 2008

  An old clause rears its ugly head

• Back to basics banking

  01 Dec 2008

  A primer on recent, traditional deals

• Ex-regulator calls for Asia competition body

  25 Nov 2008

  Asia needs its own forum to discuss competition issues, according to Vinod Dhall, formerly at the Competition Commission of India

• Indonesian regulator admits takeover mistakes

  19 Nov 2008

  The Indonesian changes to takeover law in June were ill thought-out. Companies and lawyers are struggling to apply the revisions

• SEC modifies fair value

  17 Nov 2008

  Putting more pressure on the accountants

• Pullouts from M&A are hard

  17 Nov 2008

  US case demonstrates difficulty for private equity

• The big question: How should UK insolvency law change?

  17 Nov 2008

  Counsel can't agree on whether reform is desirable or even necessary

• Christopher Meyn, Gávea Investimentos

  17 Nov 2008

  The private equity counsel discusses legislative changes in Brazil that encourage investment

• Precedents codified

  17 Nov 2008

  More and better exemptions from the SEC, but no-action letters may not disappear

• First rulemaking since '99

  17 Nov 2008

  The practical problems with offers remain

• Mind over matter

  17 Nov 2008

  Change attitudes, rather than reform the law

• Law relaxation helps German restructurings

  12 Nov 2008

  A recent relaxation of German law could make it easier for companies to come to terms with creditors without migrating