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The region's biggest story last month was the launch of the newly-merged HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS. The combination of the UK and Australian outfits creates the eighth largest firm by headcount in the world, which now boasts 20 offices and over 2,800 lawyers. The development is a welcome boost for both firms with Herbert Smith having undergone a number of changes in structure and strategy in its home European market in recent years.

The challenge of hosting the next Fifa World Cup just became easier Bank of America's $479 million loan and guarantee agreement to the state of Mato Grosso in west-central Brazil will radically change Latin American and Brazilian project finance. The loan, which closed on September 22 and matures in 2022, is the first private loan to Brazil's third-largest state. Brazilian states were previously banned from raising capital market debt, and so the deal involved intensive negotiations at the federal level of government.

Up to $550 billion of European LBO loans are due to mature between now and 2016. What are the options for addressing the huge refinancing burden and what new trends are emerging in this changed financial landscape?

Regulatory changes that would permit research analysts at investment banks to attend pitch meetings with prospective IPO clients will do little to relieve the compliance burden hindering US IPOs

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting further analysis of the costs and benefits of money market fund regulation, SEC chairman Mary Schaprio has said

Cornerstone investors have become fundamental to IPOs in Asia, with offerings such as those of Felda Global Ventures and Astro dependent on their support. But rules are vague and significantly differ throughout jurisdictions

The biggest shortfall of the Dodd-Frank Act is its inability to remove incentives that encourage banks to misuse savings under an understanding that they are too big to fail, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has claimed

The Commodities Futures Trading Commission will finalise guidance on the cross-border application of the Dodd-Frank Act by and phase-in compliance with swaps rules in 2013, the CFTC Chairman has announced

Lawyers in Jakarta have revealed their wish list of market reforms that could invigorate the country's equity capital markets, if implemented

Indonesia’s renewables market expects more local bank involvement and more commercial bank led-deals that do not rely so heavily on ECAs political risk mitigation elements