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Law firms throughout the US rang in the new year with a surge of lateral hires. In the always-bustling area of white collar criminal investigations and enforcement, CROWELL & MORING's New York office welcomed former senior assistant US attorney for the southern district of New York, Glen G McGorty. GREENBERG TRAURIG gained former DLA Piper lawyer Carolyn F McNiven as a San Francisco-based shareholder with a concentration on white-collar defence matters. Former federal prosecutor Greg Deis rejoined MAYER BROWN in Chicago. He had served the firm for four years as an associate before becoming an assistant US attorney in the northern district of Illinois in 2007.

Some innovative reforms have created new possibilities – and flexibility – for Italian companies in distress

Global monetary policy has set the stage for inflation. How effective are hedging strategies, and which tools will best protect portfolio assets?

Subscription credit facilities will become a prominent feature of the private equity and investment funds landscape, US and Cayman Islands lawyers say.

Infrastructure bonds will boost India's underdeveloped debt capital markets in 2013, and corporate offerings are set to follow. The success of India's equity capital markets has masked the lack of interest and liquidity in the bond market. But with equities recently slowing, attention will turn to debt.

Interest and innovation in European exchange traded products (ETPs) will grow this year, creating opportunities for asset managers.

That Basel III's higher capital requirements will significantly curtail investment bank involvement in large, long-term EU project financings is undisputed. But market participants expect it will be some time before any other lending entity can viably take their place.

Supervisors have taken an increasing interest in structured products recently. But regulating complexity isn’t easy

The expansion of China’s Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor programme is set to further open China’s capital markets in 2013

There was renewed buzz around CoCos last year, off the back of impressive issuances by UBS and Barclays. Lawyers expect greater diversification of Tier 2 capital instruments in 2013