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A comprehensive review of the rules governing takeovers in India is welcome, but are the draft regulations all they could be?

Banks involved in the energy sector have been hit by US-led Iran sanctions. Ignoring them poses two threats

The US legislation contains disclosure requirements that many may have missed. Here’s what you should do

A June 2010 decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery highlights the importance of carefully reading the terms of both final contracts and preceding drafts. In Cambridge North Point LLC v Boston and Maine Corporation, Vice Chancellor Strine refused the request of an aggrieved party to invalidate an allegedly unagreed term that the other party had quietly inserted into a near-final draft of an agreement. The party that had inserted the term had not provided a blackline showing the change. The change eliminated certain conditions to the obligation to make a $3.5 million payment.

Why did countries with intense regulatory regimes suffer the worst in the financial crisis? And why have those same countries ratcheted up their banking regulations following the crisis, despite their rules failing? One of the more interesting studies carried out within the area of law over the last few years has been Philip Wood's Global Law Maps. Wood is the head of Allen & Overy's Global Law Intelligence Unit, having led the firm's banking group in the 1990s.

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IFLR has recently joined Twitter, and will be posting live updates from the IBA conference in Vancouver next week. You can also now join IFLR groups on LinkedIn and Facebook, to keep up to date with all the latest news, events and discussions as they happen.

Mezzanine finance has suffered in the recovering private equity market. Intercreditor arrangements and stretched senior lending are to blame.

The first of Iceland’s nationalised banks to be restructured has used an innovative depository unit scheme and tax structuring to meet the demands of its international creditors.

Despite investor scepticism, private equity lawyers insist dual-track listings are a genuine exercise in valuation