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Rafique Bachour, who spent nearly 30 years at Freshfields, joins Skadden’s Belgian office amid heightened global regulatory scrutiny
ESG
VdA partner Assunção Cristas, a winner of last year’s Women in Business Law Awards, discusses shaping sustainability through law and innovation
Daniela Cohen, partner in the firm’s debt finance team, explores the defining trends in structured finance for 2026, the ongoing value AI is set to deliver, and the sports sector’s role as a driver of PE activity
M&A
New hires were made across PE, M&A, capital markets and finance practices in key hubs including Milan, New York and London
Tom Dell’ Avvocato discusses practical strategies, market trends, and collaborative approaches that help clients navigate complex asset-based and speciality finance deals
Sustainability-linked and transition loans provide practical pathways for decarbonisation in emerging markets’ hard-to-abate sectors
M&A
Partners at JunHe, Morrison Foerster and White & Case discuss the forces that shaped dealmaking across China, Japan and Hong Kong this year
M&A
A vote to be held in 2026 could create Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, a $3.6bn giant with 3,100 lawyers across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific
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  • Sponsored by Hengeler Mueller
    A survey by Hengeler Mueller has found that a majority of respondents reported an increase in the bureaucratic requirements associated with the EU regulation
  • Sponsored by Elias Neocleous & Co
    On September 14, the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) published its latest analysis of data on non-performing loans in the Cyprus banking sector. The analysis covered the period to May 31 2018, and showed aggregate non-performing facilities and related indicators for the domestic operations of credit institutions operating in Cyprus.
  • Sponsored by Maples Group
    The Irish legislature is considering draft legislation which would regulate purchasers of non-performing loans (NPLs). The draft legislation is at an advanced stage in the parliamentary process. While credit servicers are regulated in Ireland, credit owners (in the main, entities that have purchased loans and loan portfolios from banks looking to reduce their exposure to NPLs) are not. However, the regulation of owners of credit would be a substantial extension of the regime. Furthermore, it would run contrary to EU policy in this area which proposes to regulate credit servicers (as is the existing position in Ireland) but deliberately stops short of regulating loan owners because such an extension is neither necessary nor desirable.