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Ten years after its creation, has Hong Kong’s Securities & Futures Appeals Tribunal proved an effective review panel?

The government of Mongolia's recent Regulation S/Rule 144A debt offering marked the first time the country has tapped the sovereign bond market.

A new law which focuses on the processing of an individual's personal information was approved by the President of the Philippines on August 15 2012. The Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No 10173, full title An Act Protecting Individual Personal Information in Information and Communications Systems in the Government and the Private Sector, Creating for this Purpose A National Privacy Commission, and for Other Purposes) took effect on September 8 2012. A violation of this law is a crime, and penalties imposed include fines and imprisonment (see Chapter VIII of the Act).

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission's (SFC) sponsor regulations lack teeth without an independent audit regulator, according to Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) standing advisory group member and Peking University professor Paul Gillis.

The first Russian covered bond issuance to receive a rating higher than its issuer could prompt more use of the capital raising tool by the country's fragmented banking sector.

The China/Canada investment landscape becomes more intertwined

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.

This year, clearing houses will look to comingle options contracts in an attempt to use margin offsets to lower Dodd-Frank compliance costs – for themselves and swaps traders

With the US forecasted to overtake rivals Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world's leading oil producer by 2017 – and continued US dominance of worldwide natural gas production – lawyers expect furious battles on the sector's regulation in 2013.

As a means of raising capital for investment in UK industry, equity markets no longer register on the radar screen of significance. But UK economist John Kay remains hopeful the market can be resurrected. Here's how.