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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The sale of two Tunisian oil companies has closed in the midst of the country's uprisings. It offers a timely reminder of the importance of risk allocation between signing and closing in the Mena region.
  • On December 17 2010, the Disclosure System Working Group of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) issued a report proposing to increase the variety of disclosure documents which a foreign company may submit in English instead of Japanese. The working group expects this enhanced disclosure system will increase the number of foreign entities raising funds in Japan.
  • Lawyers in Australia have welcomed last week’s exposure draft bill on covered bonds – especially the higher net asset cap
  • Lawyers working on Tata Steel’s corporate hybrid securities issuance have called for restrictions governing Indian institutional investors’ capital allocation to be addressed.
  • The SFC's Martin Wheatley, has revealed plans to focus on increasing its powers to enforce Hong Kong's Listing Rules.
  • Wanhua's landmark debt restructuring and buyout deal of debt-laden BorsodChem was a first in China outbound transactions. Here's how it was structured
  • UPC Broadband is the latest issuer to use Europe’s new high yield structure which features the maintenance covenants of an underlying secured loan. But the deal offers no sign of bondholder voting mechanisms standardising under the structure
  • India’s biggest technology M&A deal to date has been backed by a rare debt-based financing structure