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Se-Jin Kim The Korean Financial Supervisory Service and the Korea Exchange (KRX) have announced solutions to various problems associated with the growing equity-linked warrants (ELW) market. Following the initial announcement by the Service in May 2011 which promised a number of measures designed to create a more stable environment for the market, KRX released a public notice on June 14 setting out specific changes which will be made to the applicable regulations. Some important aspects of these proposed changes are as follows:

Andreas Moll Recently, the Federal Supreme Court rendered a decision regarding the supervision of foreign securities dealers with Swiss branches.

On May 3 2011 the Dutch financial supervisors, the Dutch Authority of the Financial Markets and the Dutch Central Bank issued a joint statement on private initiatives known as crowd funding, crowd sourcing, or peer-to-peer financing. These initiatives are alternative forms of financing, offering private parties and companies a way to lend and borrower money without the involvement of a (licensed) bank.

Luis R Pellerano With the purpose of creating a structure to help the housing market grow in the Dominican Republic, a new law is being enacted called the Law for the Development of the Mortgage Market and Trusts. The most important aspect of this bill is that it introduces the concept of the trust so it can be used, among other purposes, for creating financial structures to secure the flow of funds towards the construction of affordable housing and real estate development in the country.

A new agreement provides hope for companies in trouble in Portugal, but everything rides on its implementation

Over 200 of Europe’s leading female lawyers, politicians and barristers descended on London’s Claridges on June 29 for Euromoney Legal Media Group’s inaugural Women in Business Law Awards.

Revised legislation may spell the end for schemes of arrangement as the legal mechanism of choice for takeovers of listed Cayman Islands companies

With hostile takeovers on the rise this year, we reveal the new tactics being used to drive them

The UN Human Rights Council has declared that business must respect human rights. Banks need to take a good hard look at themselves, before somebody else does

The UK’s new Bribery Act will have a big impact on businesses worldwide. But corporates must not ignore their obligations under existing anti-money laundering laws