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Dogan Eymirlioglu and Ceyda Aydin of Ersoy Bilgehan examine a number of recent changes to Turkey’s laws which will impact foreign investors

Atiq Anjarwalla and Ian Gaitta of Anjarwalla Collins & Haidermota examine the factors that make the UAE an attractive yet challenging regional investment destination

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into emerging and frontier countries has remained a significant engine of growth even as the global economic picture has weakened.

You could be forgiven for thinking Africa and private equity an odd pair. Leveraged buyouts, price tension and dual-track exits don't appear to go hand-in-hand with frontier markets.

On June 28 2012 the Court of Justice of the European Union, requested by the German Federal Court of Justice, ruled on the definition of inside information

Patrick McGurn Shareholder rights plans are often understood as anything but. By giving shareholders the opportunity to dilute a potential owner's stake in a company, they have effectively deterred any and all hostile acquisitions of companies that have adopted them.

Phillip Fletcher Following the 1980s debt crisis, the IMF and World Bank endorsed the Brady Plan, which called for debt reduction by way of risk-compensated forgiveness. Debtor countries' loans were restructured into a menu of publicly-traded US dollar-denominated Brady Bonds collateralised with US Treasury securities. The first Brady Bond, completed in 1990 for Mexico, became the archetype for the other Brady deals that followed over the next seven years.

Daniel Goelzer The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) sprang into existence with a clear mandate. The Enron debacle had so tarnished the profession's reputation that independent oversight was crucial to restoring a respected auditing profession. But the PCAOB did not just have a moral mandate. It had a strong legal one too, with a unanimous vote for Sarbanes-Oxley in the Senate and only a couple of dissenting voices in the House of Representatives.

The foreign owners of foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs, excluding wholly foreign-owned companies for the purpose of this article) are eager to reap the advantages of the increasingly prosperous capital markets in China to raise funds in renminbi and enhance their exposure to the Chinese market. Quite a number of these foreign investors struggle with the idea that the capital market in China dislikes so-called foreign gold miners, and thus FIEs are hindered from listing on the A-share market. This opinion may be quite wrong.

The growing interest of foreign investors in the Colombian capital markets has increased portfolio investments in local securities to year records. This has led the Superintendence of Finance (SFC) to regulate proxy voting on local listed securities by foreign investors. External Circular 022 of 2012 details proxy voting for foreign investors through local securities depositaries and adds new duties in connection with their interaction with foreign depositaries.