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  • Counsel in Hong Kong and China are concerned that the quality of disclosure on some Chinese company offering documents is being sacrificed in a bid to catch the latest stock market rally
  • Granting financing to prominent borrowers based on family name or reputation has long been a common practice across the Middle East. But with liquidity stretched and the region's banks looking more carefully at their risk profile, name lending could be on the way out
  • As Thai police issue summonses to three KPMG partners responsible for liquidating Lehman Brothers, attention has turned to Lehman's joint venture agreement with the complainant, Destination Properties
  • The latest asset sale by Canadian telecoms company Nortel has proved that strong consortium bids are vital to the success of distressed M&A deals
  • The sheer volume of active BVI Business Companies (over 400,000) is testament to the fact that no other offshore jurisdiction offers a comparable corporate vehicle. The combined number of active Cayman and Bermudan companies, for example, is approximately 100,000. Companies that have been incorporated in other offshore jurisdictions may continue or migrate to the BVI. It's worth highlighting some popular reasons for doing so, correcting some common misconceptions and summarising the statutory process.
  • The compliance leader, Asean of GE Capital gives his thoughts on creating effective internal compliance
  • Rating agencies are downgrading hybrids due to the removal of systemic and regional support from their process. And although banks are recovering, upgrades are unlikely
  • The corporate departments that weathered this downturn well, from the IFLR1000
  • Lloyds's exchange offer was popular with both investors and regulators. But any future deals will have to deal with several areas of legal uncertainty
  • The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2009 (the Bill) was introduced in the US Congress at the end of October. If enacted in its current form, the Bill would effectively end the practice whereby US issuers sell so-called bearer bonds to foreign investors.