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As emerging market work grows, the shortage of local lawyers has become obvious

Counsel on Japan’s first-ever Rule 144A high yield bond have revealed the innovation required to close the deal amid the country’s unprecedented natural disasters

European regulators need to find the right balance between disclosure regulation, intermediary regulation, product regulation and investor responsibility and education to promote an efficient market

Private practice lawyers must reassess how they manage multiple bookrunner-deals, a bankers’ counsel has warned

Presumptions in the Prospectus Directive about sovereign information have been proved ‘spectacularly wrong’ during the European debt crisis. But investors must share the blame for their losses

Sponsors have not picked up on the benefits of a Chapter 14 standard listing, introduced into the UK listing regime last year

In the December/January 2011 issue, we reported that an amendment to the Securities and Exchange Law was adopted to request listing companies establishing compensation committees. And, under the authorisation of the Law, qualifications of the members and the competence of the compensation committee will be promulgated by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), the financial regulator in Taiwan. Now, after due consultations, the FSC has set up a set of rules for the establishment and competence of compensation committees for listing companies (Rules).

CoCo bonds are expected to grow in 2011. But the products need clarity over rating and index eligibility in order to progress

Companies should take advantage of relatively open market conditions and refinance now. Macro imbalances and the end of quantitative easing will means firms don’t have long

Europe’s hybrid capital market will grow despite continuing structural uncertainties