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Hopewell Highway Infrastructure’s renminbi bond L-R: Maples and Calder's Christine Chang, Candy Lau of Woo Kwan Lee & Ko, Terry Cheng, Lana Chong and Richard Law from Hopewell Highway Hopewell Highway Infrastructure's June 2010 corporate bond took renminbi bonds international as the Hong Kong-based toll-road company became the first foreign corporate to raise renminbi outside of China.

Ukreximbank's Euroclearable, hryvnia-denominated bond shows it is possible for emerging market companies to access the international markets directly through a purely local currency issue

Rusal’s Russian depositary receipts programme L-R: Polina Lyadnova of Cleary Gottlieb and Jonny Myers of Clifford Chance Russian mining company Rusal broke new ground when it became the first to launch a Russian depositary receipt (RDR) programme in respect of its shares listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The full list of winners from IFLR's Americas awards is here

L-R: Simon Wiggs from Major Lindsey & Africa, Trevor Clark of Linklaters International firm of the year 2010 was an excellent year for Linklaters, with the firm advising on several of this year's most interesting deals. The firm assisted banks on Hong Kong's largest ever listing, AIA Group's IPO, advised the bond trustee on New Zealand and Australasia's first covered bond programme, and advised Bank of China in developing a legal infrastructure on the first renminbi offshore financing, Hopewell Highway's bond.

Spring fever hit the American market this month with whole teams of lawyers migrating from one firm to another. After bleeding partners for months, US firm Howrey officially dissolved in March, with what remained of its lawyers scattering across the world. Amongst the main beneficiaries were former competitors Baker Botts, Mayer Brown and Jones Day.

The Securities and Futures Commission's (SFC) efforts to regulate the market is being challenged in the courts, IFLR can reveal.

China's unwanted baggage Chinese companies need to give serious thought to the impact of increased protectionism in western economies if they are to successfully prosecute merger and acquisition deals in the region.

Lawyers in Australia welcomed last month's exposure draft bill on covered bonds – especially the 8% cap of net assets, up from initial suggestions of 5%.

Don't forget the pre-nup Companies should determine exit strategies prior to entering into any joint ventures.