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Philbert E Varona The Philippine government sponsored the Infrastructure Philippines conference held on November 18 to 19 2010 as part of its efforts to drum up investor interest in Philippine infrastructure projects and public-private partnerships. The conference was generally met with optimism from both potential project sponsors and financiers.

Article 3 of Law No 136 of August 13 2010 (Law No 136), as supplemented by articles 6 and 7 of Law Decree No. 187 of November 12 2010 converted into Law No 217 of December 17 2010 (Law Decree No 187), introduced new provisions for tracking payments made under public contracts for works, supplies and services in order to prevent criminal infiltrations.

Lefan Gong of Zhong Lun Law Firm analyses the different structures investors can use to take advantage of the boom in onshore renminbi private-equity funds

IFLR’s corporate counsel survey discovered that our in-house readers are panicked about the UK Bribery Act, US whistleblower provisions and Chinese competition regulations

Mario E Juarez Foreign reinsurers carrying out transactions in Mexico or performing legal acts having effects in Mexico must comply with certain legal requirements. For instance, according to the General Law of Insurance Companies (the Insurance Law), local insurance companies (the local insurers) can only enter into reinsurance transactions with foreign reinsurers registered in the National Registry of Foreign Reinsurers (the registry), maintained by the Mexican Ministry of Finance (SHCP).

As part of its efforts towards strengthening the Nigerian banking system, the Federal Government of Nigeria recently enacted the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria Act 2010 (the Act). The Act, which established the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (the Corporation) to purchase non-performing loans from Nigerian banks in order to free up the banks' balance sheets, revive lending and restore confidence in the banks, also made substantial modifications to certain aspects of Nigerian substantive law including laws regulating companies, bankruptcy and securities.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Dominican tax code, the General Internal Revenue Department, based on information supplied at the end of each year by the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, on the basis of changes in the consumer price index, released the multiplier with which inflation is to be calculated and adjusted for all tax purposes.

Despite the non-binding nature of the process, voluntary notification in Indonesia is now viable. It could mitigate future sanctions in the country

In December 2010, with less than a week remaining as HSBC’s chief executive officer, Michael Geoghegan spoke to IFLR. Here, he explains why regulators must unite, exotic products will be gone for some time and the real cost of new rules

As the year wound its way wearily to a close, the rate of lateral hires slowed considerably with only a few firms striking out for new blood.