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The best Americas project financings of the year. From deep-sea drill ships to greenfield ethanol projects, see how they were structured

The deals that sparked the US’s securitisation market back to life, standout transactions from Latin America, and the firms involved

Costa Rica's Financial Supervision Council (Conassif), the national agency entrusted with banking oversight, declared a state of intervention over Coopemex on February 17 2010. Coopemex is Costa Rica's third largest financial cooperative, which operate as savings and loans associations.

An historic year for US restructurings provided some of the most complex deals in decades. The standout transactions and their advisors

The Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM) has enacted Regulation 480 of December 7 2009. This new regulation has enhanced the requirements that companies have to fulfil to issue securities in Brazil. The new regulation has replaced rules in effect for more than 15 years and its key developments focused on: (i) enhancing the level and quality of disclosure; (ii) creating two different levels of disclosure requirements for issuers, according to the type of securities; (iii) making offering procedures faster and simpler; and (iv) harmonising the rules applicable to listed companies. Investment funds are still under specific regulations and are not affected by the new regulation.

A difficult year for equity still saw some complex deals. Bank of America’s at-the-market offering and VisaNet’s IPO were particular standouts

BVI law provides for a number of structuring mechanics that can be used to structure a takeover bid in addition to a simple offer for all the shares.

How Roche bought Genentec, Sinopec did the largest ever Chinese outbound buyout, and other corporates took advantage of vulnerable US targets

We asked in-house and private practice lawyers whose responsibility it is to ensure transactions are appropriate. Here are their answers

Senator Dodd’s financial bill does not propose the treatment of CDS as insurance, so NY State is taking the law into its own hands