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The effects of the financial crisis on banking are now familiar; primarily risk aversion and slow lending. Paulo Câmara of Sérvulo & Associados looks at how the Portuguese government reacted to mitigate the situation

Hungarian insolvency law has been amended to deal with the impact of the economic downturn. Csilla Andrékó and Gábor Antal of Kinstellar look at how the changes work

Private equity can contribute to economic recovery. Regulation should help by promoting transparency and controlling systemic risk. Javier Echarri of the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association says new EU proposals have a long way to go

Pedro Aguiar de Freitas and Ana Carolina Barretto of Veirano Advogados discuss project finance in the emerging Brazilian energy market

Almost counter cyclical

After many months of intense debate among Mexican securities market and pension fund regulators, and local and international private equity and infrastructure funds, on July 22 2009 the Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, CNBV) amended its general rules for issuers of securities in order to regulate the issuance of structured securities by Mexican investment funds, which can be purchased by Mexican retirement funds (Sociedades de Inversion de Fondos para el Retiro or Siefores) managed by Mexican managers of retirement funds (Administradoras de Fondos Para el Retiro or Afores) and other investors.

New provisions have recently been enacted providing more stringent rules for the management of public companies wholly or partially owned by local entities in order to safeguard the balance of the public accounts.

In August 2009, the Austrian legislator took further action to mitigate the effects of the global financial crisis on the real economy.

Wary of overly restrictive regulation, the derivatives industry is driving measures to improve the transparency and clearing of OTC instruments. But will its efforts be enough?

The Hong Kong Takeover Panel is taking a more aggressive stance Hong Kong’s Takeovers Panel is taking a more aggressive stance on the definition of concert parties when dealing with private equity-led investments. Funds should take note.