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Over 200 in-house counsel and private practitioners converged on The Dorchester in London on March 23 for the 14th annual IFLR European awards. Linklaters was the big winner on the night, scooping the International Law Firm of the Year prize for the second year running and bringing back home the debt and equity-linked, structured finance and securitisation, and restructuring team of the year awards. This year IFLR introduced two new awards: lifetime achievement and regulatory contribution. Allen & Overy’s Philip Wood was a popular choice for the former, and FSA general counsel Andrew Whittaker was a deserving winner of the latter.

Anthony Coleby

March 2011 was a busy month for lateral hires with an unusually high tally in Paris. Across the markets the dissolution of Howrey also provided firms with opportunities to invest and swell ranks.

A small Argentinian property company has issued high yield despite its size and developers' typically unsteady cash flows

A Shanghai-listed company has acquired debt-laden BorsodChem, a Hungarian chemicals company, in a landmark debt restructuring and buyout deal. The advanced acquisition strategy is unprecedented in China outbound transactions.

Advisors need to better manage the nervousness company boards feel towards litigation and disclosure involved in take private transactions.

Project bonds are back. Banks facing new capital requirements have cut long-lending programmes – never their most profitable – and China's demand for resources has outstripped multilaterals' funds. Project sponsors are now turning to the capital markets, and in many ways they've found their perfect fit. Bondholders can get their predictable annuity locked in, and developers their long-term funds.

Mofcom’s workload is overbearing Foreign buyers must accept that China's Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) antitrust bureaus are drastically understaffed. International deals are likely to take four months – not the expected two months.

Workflow is evaporating Chinese private equity deals have been branded a major challenge by lawyers in Hong Kong.

As US regulators look to replace references to credit ratings in their rulemaking, Argentine pension funds have already been making investments using alternative means of analysis, including reports from local universities.