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The Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) initiative may not be a legal requirement, but it is one of the most important business requirements for potential investors into South Africa today.

The privatisation of ANA, a Portuguese airport concession company, has revealed the country's ability to attract foreign investment notwithstanding its precipitous debt crisis.

The EU's proposed financial transaction tax (FTT) would be so disruptive to securities markets that it could render some FTT zone trading desks uneconomic.

Susan Alker, Winston & Strawn James Stevens, Toutman Sanders Peter Birkness, McCarthy Tetrault Last month saw a balance of hiring activity on both US coasts. For COOLEY it was the Los Angeles office that was looking to expand, with a double addition to its corporate ranks from Sheppard Mullin. Both C Thomas Hopkins and Ian Smith joined the team, with Hopkins a particularly notable hire given his previous position as global head of corporate. Elsewhere in the City of Angels, VENABLE increased its corporate capacity with the addition of private equity partner Ronn Davids and corporate counsel Jennifer Cappelletty from Klee Tuchin Bogdanoff & Stern. Both lawyers focus on mid-market and emerging companies. WINSTON & STRAWN meanwhile enhanced its corporate finance team with the addition of Susan Alker from Reed Smith.

Who took home what from IFLR’s annual Asia awards

Chinese corporates have their eyes fixed on foreign targets. But this new phase of M&A comes with risks and challenges

Asia’s securities regulators are firmly focused on protecting retail investors. But there are limits to what they can achieve

Freddy Karyadi Oene Marseille The Government has recently issued several new Ministry of Finance (MoF) regulations (PMK) relating to general tax provisions, in order to improve the implementation of Government Regulation 74/2011 (PP-74), which is the main implementing regulation of the General Tax Provisions and Procedures Law (KUP Law). The MoF seems to want to streamline the prevailing regulations by putting as much content as possible in the PMKs to minimise the issuance of lower-ranked tax regulations. The tax audit is one of the new MoF regulations which will be discussed below.

What can the financial services industry expect from the new UK regulatory authorities?

As US and UK exchanges loosen listing rules, Asia is cracking the regulatory whip to improve market integrity. Which is the best approach for long-term success?