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Thomas A Humphreys Remmelt A Reigersman Late last year, House Ways and Means Committee chairman David Camp sent a letter to the House Committee on Financial Services (HFSC) outlining amendments to the Covered Bond Act (CBA) that significantly alter the tax treatment of covered bond pools segregated from the issuer's estate after an event of default. Covered bonds are debt obligations that are recourse either to the issuing entity or to an affiliated group to which the issuing entity belongs, or both. Upon an issuer default, covered bond holders also have recourse to a pool of collateral (known as the cover pool), separate from the issuer's other assets.

Turkey’s drive to align with international business standards has not discounted the importance of a customised regulatory framework that reflects market realities and medium-term projects. Ahmet Kerem Özsahin, director of the department of legal counselling at the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, explains how

Özge Okat of Pekin & Pekin examines new challenges for acquisition financing in Turkey following the introduction of the new commercial code

Seda Akipek and Müjdem Aksoy of Cerrahoglu examine the implications of changes to Turkey’s Commercial Code which allow for electronic company meetings

Borys D Sawicki Times of economic slowdown create additional challenges for businesses. Limited availability of external financing and delays in payments from contractors prompt entrepreneurs to seek tools that could improve their financial position. Factoring is certainly one of the instruments at which it is worth taking a closer look. In Poland, factoring is an unregulated agreement as opposed to typical agreements regulated by the Civil Code, such as sale, donation or construction contracts. The parties are, therefore, free to structure their legal relationship as they see it fit, provided that its substance and/or purpose is not contradictory to the nature of the relationship, the law or the principles of community life. Usually, they will model the arrangement in accordance with the prevailing market practice and taking into account views expressed by legal commentators.

Thomas Thorndike The energy industry in Peru is divided into three main sub-sectors: generation, transmission and distribution. The development of energy projects, regardless of the sub-sector, requires the execution of a concession agreement with the relevant governmental agency, authorising the sponsors to develop the project, and establishing the applicable terms. Such concession agreements set out the technical and contractual conditions of the project, including certain terms and conditions as to how it is to be financed.

Daniel Futej Rudolf Sivak As of January 1 2013, an amendment to the Slovak Act on energy efficiency of buildings came into force introducing several changes with respect to energy efficiency and certification of buildings. According to new legislation, provisions of the Act will not apply to buildings which are used for only a limited time during the year (during weekends or in summer, for example). The non-application is subject to the condition that the expected energy consumption of the building does not exceed 25% of the yearly expected energy consumption.

Noyan Turunç of TURUNÇ provides an overview of the new Turkish law on work health and safety

The Turkish PPP mechanism is mainly based on collaboration between public and private sectors. This allows the public and private sectors to share the investment cost, risk and profit related to such investment and services. Throughout the last decade the number of PPP projects in Turkey has significantly increased, especially, most recently, in the healthcare sector. Accordingly, the new PPP law on healthcare sector No 6428 was recently enacted. It entered into force on March 9 2013.

It has been less than a year since IFLR published its 2012 Guide to Turkey, and in that time the country has taken strides towards its goal of becoming an international financial centre.