M&A

News analysis

• Many ways in

  01 December 2007

  How do you win work in a country that doesn't want you? Ask Linklaters, Jones Day and White & Case

• Local firms win out

  01 December 2007

  Romanian and Bulgarian outfits beat international newcomers in the real estate boom

• Rise of the Young Turks

  01 December 2007

  The booming capital markets are allowing a handful of new, dynamic firms to do innovative work

• Troubled times

  01 December 2007

  A wide swathe of law firms benefited from this year's US equity volume. It was a good thing to have in a volatile year

• China's corporate challenge

  01 December 2007

  Laurence Liu, head of the Association of Corporate Counsel in China

• The first triangular merger

  01 December 2007

  Japan sees its M&A market turn for the better

• In praise of ambiguity

  01 December 2007

  Two US cases and their lessons for how to structure a Mac clause

• US vs UK contracts

  01 December 2007

  How leveraged finance terms have been affected differently by the credit crunch

• Blackstone's full impact

  01 December 2007

  Use your minority stake to buy together

• Indecent disclosure

  01 December 2007

  Australia clamps down too hard on derivatives and their holders

• Struggling for a policy

  01 December 2007

  Misguided attempts to keep out hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and foreigners

• A sense of history

  01 December 2007

  Investing in Malaysia is a lot easier than it used to be, and it deserves praise

• More modern regulation

  01 December 2007

  A different tack by the SEC

• In-house struggle in Asia

  01 November 2007

  Paul Browne and Charles Mayo of Simmons & Simmons react to the results of the Asian Bankers' Counsel Poll

• Quick, buy now

  01 November 2007

  Buyers need to get into Japan fast, before targets implement poison pills

• How to rig a state sale

  01 November 2007

  The corruption, sleights of hand and odd coincidences around state assets

• Chasing shadows

  01 November 2007

  The proposals target problems that don't exist, with impractical regulation

• Governance evolution

  01 November 2007

  Why corporate governance is developing in parallel with politics

• Prevent the perfect storm

  01 November 2007

  Counsel at a hedge fund on how they can work better

• How it works

  01 November 2007

  The weapons shareholders have at their disposal, in the light of Tesco and HSBC

• Rescue your conduit

  01 October 2007

  Three ways to find liquidity in a dry market: repos, CDOs and bargain hunters

• Jeff Golden of the ABA

  01 October 2007

  Lessons from Navajos

• Don't let traders use mobiles

  01 October 2007

  Bear Stearns validates oral trading agreements

• Reaching tipping point

  01 October 2007

  US courts are struggling to decide whether they want the world's securities fraud cases

• Down, but not out

  01 October 2007

  Buyers still have the upper hand, but financial covenants and equity cures are back

• Tale of three little pigs

  01 October 2007

  Your shareholder agreement in Russia is probably unenforceable. Here's why

• Funds' future onshore

  01 October 2007

  How to structure the fund of tomorrow, onshore and denominated in renminbi

• The tail that wags the dog

  01 October 2007

  Rules in Japan can end up controlling a whole deal. But they can be circumnavigated

• Yet more uncertainty

  01 October 2007

  A new law could be China's economic constitution, if only there were the clarity

• Netherlands leads the way

  01 October 2007

  A drugs class action shows how European securities litigation will work

• Pain and litigation

  01 October 2007

  The Act is patchy, staggered and costly. It may also, ironically, increase litigation

• No PIKs anymore

  01 September 2007

  Downturn breaks US innovation

• Beat Hess, Royal Dutch Shell

  01 September 2007

  A lifetime as an in-house lawyer reveals its own particular lessons, says the legal director

• Mitigating risk

  01 September 2007

  Tactics for public-to-private deals

• The future is onshore

  01 September 2007

  Funds need to change tack in China

• Heightened security

  01 September 2007

  New, restrictive national security rules

• An investor's checklist

  01 September 2007

  Tips for global merger control

• Past its prime

  01 September 2007

  An old idea whose time has passed

• Time to act

  01 September 2007

  The UK must consider plea bargaining

• Possibly a step too far

  01 September 2007

  Subprime ignites the debate in the US

• Taiwan private equity

  01 August 2007

  Make up your mind

• Risk in Russia

  01 August 2007

  The price of stability

• Latin American private equity

  01 August 2007

  The language of leverage

• Ignore the headlines

  01 August 2007

  Japanese M&A is healthier than you think

• Made the grade

  01 August 2007

  Investment-grade ratings lead to better covenants in Russia

• Edge of a precipice

  01 August 2007

  If authorities won't hold corporates accountable, shareholders will

• Spread too thin?

  01 August 2007

  The real effects on the world's economy of an increasingly diverse CDO market

• Greed might be good

  01 August 2007

  How companies can make sure they deal effectively with shareholder activists

• Reverse takeover adventures

  01 August 2007

  How Geovic managed to make three companies into one in Cayman

• How to do it yourself

  01 August 2007

  Managers don't need a licence

• PPPs please

  01 August 2007

  The frameworks needed to launch private participation in project finance

• Very risky business

  01 July 2007

  The problems with equity bridges

• Shareholder activism

  01 July 2007

  The FSA tries to clarify its position

• The Corporate Counsel Poll: Need for perspective

  01 July 2007

  Companies are swamped with compliance work. Hedge funds and private equity might be creeping up unawares.

• M&A and private equity

  01 July 2007

  Takeover defences are in the balance

• Private practice reaction: Tim Jones, Freshfields

  01 July 2007

  The way of the future

• Not in India, yet

  01 July 2007

  More substantial rule changes are needed

• Havoc in the Netherlands

  01 July 2007

  Problems with openness

• Whose toy is it anyway?

  01 July 2007

  The game of bidding for ABN

• London's scheming

  01 July 2007

  The benefits of flexibility

• They're playing with fire

  01 July 2007

  Do funds ever read offering documents?

• Poor shareholders

  01 July 2007

  Actions only at the behest of regulators