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Deal dynamics will change under the UK’s Takeover Code, especially for hostile or highly leveraged bidders

Francisca Pérez A bill recently submitted to Congress contains the long-awaited tax regulations for transactions with derivative instruments. The bill contains definitions of transactions covered, exclusions, rules on sourcing of income, rules for income registration and expense deductibility and inclusion of options in the purchase cost of shares in Chilean companies.

The IFLR1000’s 2011 rankings provide a crucial insight into an ever-evolving legal landscape

Though some have raised doubts about an instrument that relies on private residential loans, many expect the new structure to be successful

Zeynep Lale Mustafa Yazgan Turkey has been dreaming of a nuclear power plant (NPP) on its soil since the early 1960s. Although several tenders have been held since that time, not one has come to fruition. Because the establishment and operation of an NPP is a more delicate and complicated process than for any other type of power plant, NPPs require a comprehensive and detailed legislative framework. It has been a long, drawn-out adventure, and the end is not yet in sight.

Dovetailing with the momentous economic reform that has been taking place in Syria over the past few years, the Syrian banking sector has witnessed a number of reforms starting with the enactment of Law No 28 in 2001 that, after forty years of state monopoly, established the framework for private banking activity.

In September 2010, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the district court opinion and instructed the district court to make findings of fact relating to the SEC's allegations that Mark Cuban traded unlawfully on inside information. While some of the facts of this case are yet to be established, the SEC's view of the facts and the law are clear. The SEC alleges that in 2004 Cuban sold shares of an internet company after receiving a call from the company's CEO advising that the company would soon announce a Pipe (private investment in public equity) transaction and inviting him to participate. Prior to the call, Cuban had been a large stockholder.

The typically long payback period and perceived political risks in Ukraine have long led private investors involved in a public private partnership (the PPP) and their bankers to seek reliable statutory and contractual guarantees to protect investments and ensure performance by state partners.

The Lower Mekong River basin is attracting increasing interest on the part of developers of mainstream hydropower projects.

Ancuta Leach Ioana Iordanescu The former Romanian enactment regulating public-private partnership (PPP) was repealed in June 2006, only four years after its adoption. The enactment had been criticised largely on account of certain of its provisions deviating from the principles enshrined in the Romanian Constitution and overlapping with some of the then existing provisions applicable to concessions and public procurement.