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

The European Securities and Markets Authority is too understaffed, underfunded to meet its overambitious goals, say lawyers

Dealmakers on the largest Australian-dollar RMBS think increasing offshore participation is crucial to the country’s growing securitisation market

The commercial mortgage-backed securities market is returning to Europe, but successful deals require new standards in structuring, underwriting and servicing

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

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