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Powering the future

With governments around the world prioritising a low carbon agenda and setting strict targets for renewables, energy companies and their investors have a lot to get to grips with. Projects are under development around the world with technologies, contracts and locations that have never been used before, and companies are diversifying their financing sources to cope with the extra demands.

August 31 2010

Costa Rica: Development projects and the global financial crisis

Alejandro Antillón A, of Pacheco Coto and Larry B Pascal, of Haynes and Boone examine lessons learned in Costa Rica during the global financial crisis

August 31 2010

Mexico: Institutional private equity emerges

Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez’s M&A group assesses the likely impact of CKDs in Mexico

August 31 2010

Switzerland: Growing certainty

Wolfgang Müller and Alexander Vogel assess recent amendments to Swiss real estate law

August 31 2010

Spain: Land valuation modified

Antonio Gómez Cid of Uría Menéndez unravels Spain’s controversial land valuation system

August 31 2010

Aid for research and development

Aid for research and development may be sought by legal entities – entrepreneurs – and such aid is provided from the Slovak budget. In addition, the applicant may also apply for a subsidy for research and development from the funds of the European Union. Hereto we analyse the situation where an applicant applies for aid from the Slovak national budget.

August 31 2010

Portuguese investment funds in corporate form

Mafalda Monteiro Following recent turbulence in global financial markets and the current liquidity crisis in the domestic financial system, the Portuguese Government is paying special attention to the development of money-saving mechanisms. One of the most important mechanisms among them are investment funds, which have always been seen as a privileged instrument to attract savings at a national level.

August 31 2010

New corporate rehabilitation and insolvency framework

Philbert E Varona On February 2 2010, the Philippine Congress adopted Republic Act No. 10142, entitled the Financial Rehabilitation and Insolvency Act of 2010 (Fria). The Fria lapsed into law and became effective on July 18 2010.

August 31 2010

Anti-monopoly regulation at last

Freddy Karyadi Oene Marseille Recently Indonesia implemented its merger and acquisition notification regulation which had been dormant for many years.

August 31 2010

Non-bank entities engage in fund transfer services

On April 1 2010, the Payment Services Act (Act No. 59 of 2009) came into effect in Japan. Notably, the Act provides non-bank entities with opportunities to engage in funds transfer transactions (kawase-torihiki) (ie, transactions to transfer funds from one person to another remotely without any physical delivery of cash) under certain conditions. Because the exact meaning of funds transfer transactions is somewhat ambiguous, attention must be paid to the scope of this term.

August 31 2010

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