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The landmark offering is an early sign of Singapore’s push to rival Malaysia as an Islamic financial centre

Emmanuel Ringeval, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Alban Caillemer du Ferrage, Jones Day Richard Hall, Cravath Swaine & Moore Mohammed Kamal, Berwin Leighton Paisner France produced Europe's biggest stories last month, with FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER adding significant clout to its Paris practice through the addition of Weil Gotshal & Manges finance head Emmanuel Ringeval. The new partner focuses on leveraged finance and counts CVC and PAI Partners among his clients. WEIL was not sluggish in responding though. Just a few weeks later it brought in a direct replacement in the form of leveraged finance partner Olivier Jauffret from Linklaters. Elsewhere in Paris, SIMMONS & SIMMONS expanded its projects team with the hire of Simon Ratledge from Linklaters, while JONES DAY took a structured products team from Gide Loyrette Nouel led by Alban Caillemer du Ferrage. Across the channel, CRAVATH SWAINE & MOORE expanded its London team with the relocation of global M&A head Richard Hall to the City. The US firm has a compact London team which deals with US law only. Another US firm, CADWALADER WICKERSHAM & TAFT, has undergone a series of changes in the last few years, though this month saw it take a significant step towards rebuilding its practice with the hire of restructuring and insolvency partner Yushan Ng from Linklaters. Having recently worked on the substantial SEAT Pagine restructuring, Ng will bring plenty of experience to the team along with strong links in the investment funds sector.

The US lateral hire market hummed along in October, with firms picking up two or more partners at a time. It reached something of a milestone on October 11, when AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD announced that a seven-partner corporate and regulatory team had joined its Dallas office from Haynes and Boone. Akin Gump's corporate practice gained Tom Yang, Garrett DeVries and Matt Zmigrosky, who specialise in capital markets, securities, and M&A. The firm's white-collar defence and litigation practice gained Marty Brimmage Jr, Mike Warnecke, Arnold Spencer, and Sarah Teachout.

All the winning deals and teams from the sixth annual IFLR Middle East awards

Under CFTC swaps rules, the answer is not as simple as it seems

The National Stock Exchange's (NSE) flash crash could trigger another overhaul of market rules in India, especially regarding electronic trading.

Air Liquide has become the first private company to issue bonds meeting socially responsible investors' criteria. The €500 million worth of nine-year notes was placed by Crédit Agricole, Citigroup, HSBC and Société Générale last month.

US president Barack Obama and governor Mitt Romney have fiercely debated how they would increase US investment. When asked about their stances on cross-border investment with the world's second largest economy, however, the discussion has revolved around anti-dumping policies or identifying China as a currency manipulator – rather than encouraging investment in the US.

Should the CFTC have read the statute more closely?

Europe and Asia’s investors show their soft side New legal structures are needed for impact investments to succeed as an asset class. Although it is possible to utilise non-profit or for-profit structures for impact investments, investors – and their counsel – hope that more jurisdictions will consider social enterprise structures to simplify matters. Impact investments involve investing in both for-profit and not-for-profit social enterprises that prioritise their missions over conventional business objectives. But the strategy has blurred the distinction between between for-profit and non-profit companies. Recently we've seen charities invest in for-profit companies, such as Oxfam's investment into Mongolia's Xac Leasing, and private equity firms such as KKR prioritise environmental, social and governance issues.