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How UK competition reforms affect businesses and individuals

Plans to merge the UK’s OFT and Competition Commission will have little practical impact on corporates, although individuals may be harder hit

March 29 2012

How Chinese companies can mitigate African investment risk

While the Chinese approach to African investment differs from the west, it still needs to pay attention to corruption, political and domestic legal issues

March 29 2012

How Pemex's GDN listing was done

Pemex’s listing of GDNs could pave the way for other sovereign issuers to increase local bond liquidity. Here’s how it was done

March 29 2012

Revision of collective investment scheme rules

Andreas Moll The Swiss Government, the Federal Council, intends to amend the Swiss Collective Investment Schemes Act (CISA). It announced in January 2012 that it will draw up a dispatch of the amended CISA to be ready by spring 2012, taking into consideration the statements submitted by the invited parties and organisations in the course of the consultation proceedings.

March 29 2012

More delays for data protection

Chun-yih Cheng In order to strengthen the protection of personal data, Taiwan's Computer Processed Personal Data Protection Act was amended in May 2010. The new Act extends to all persons, natural or juristic, and all personal data directly or indirectly leading to a living natural person. In particular, sensitive personal data, including medical treatment, gene, sexual life, health check and criminal records, are in principle not allowed to be collected.

March 29 2012

Issuers’ compliance rules for listed companies in Austria

Christian Temmel The Austrian Stock Exchange Act contains an authorisation for the Austrian Financial Markets Authority (Finanzmarktaufsichtsbehörde, or FMA) to enact a regulation by which the duties and obligations of issuers of financial instruments are specified with respect to the prevention of insider dealing and market manipulation. The FMA has made use of this authorisation and enacted in 2007 the so-called Issuers' Compliance Regulation.

March 29 2012

Brazilian SPAs: latest local practice

Brazilian lawyers reveal the latest local practice for negotiating sale and purchase agreements, and how they differ fro the US

Danielle Myles, March 29 2012

How to make LatAm's Mila exchange work

Latin America’s integrated capital market has had a slow start. But with the region booming issuers will soon embrace the exchange. First, changes need to be made

Danielle Myles, March 29 2012

The road ahead for Peruvian corporates

Pablo Berckholtz Exactly one year ago I anticipated that, despite the global economic downturn, we would see a spur of equity offerings in Peru as a way to raise capital by Peruvian companies and as part of exit strategies for hedge funds and private equity houses that have invested in Peruvian companies. I also anticipated that we would see a flow of debt offerings in the international markets in 2011 – most of which would likely be high yield bonds.

March 29 2012

IFLR European awards: deals, teams and national winners in full

Over 250 private practice, in-house counsel and special guests came together at The Dorchester in London on March 22 to see Clifford Chance pick up the prestigious international firm of the year award, breaking Linklaters’ five-year winning streak. Emmanuel Maurice of the EBRD was awarded the lifetime achievement award, while Svein Andresen of the Financial Stability Board accepted the regulatory achievement award on behalf of Paul Tucker, deputy governor of the Bank of England.

March 29 2012

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