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  • The facilities stop US companies getting bogged down in Chapter 11 The product itself only emerged in the past few months. Now forward start facilities are evolving beyond their original use, helping distressed companies out of trouble.
  • Following a decline in foreign investment in Japan over the past 12 months, the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is promoting its new secondary market – Tokyo Aim – as a venue for foreign issuers. But the role of advisers will need some tweaking before anyone lists.
  • The German government’s plan to take over potentially insolvent banks threatens contracts with foreign institutions, and could limit the funding that struggling banks can access.
  • The regulatory pendulum is swinging, unwisely, back to the Bank In a clear sign that UK banks are preparing for a Conservative government, in-house counsel are ignoring Labour plans in favour of the Tory’s recent White Paper.
  • Dealer managers should seek proper legal protections in liability management, argues Tom Pauk of Citigroup
  • Is the new way to restructure a Japanese company like opening Pandora's box? Or is it a modern revolution?
  • The Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Programme’s (SigTarp) investigations of Tarp fraud would be easier if the US Treasury Department helped.
  • The junior lenders’ valuation was just a ‘robotic exercise’ The approval of a restructuring scheme for IMO Carwash that favours senior lenders has been declared a precedent for junior lenders to fear. But the real point of the verdict is the valuation.
  • The past year has been dominated by threats of regulation, discussion of regulation and (occasionally) implementation of regulation. Much of it has been high-level; little of it will come into force for years (the amended Capital Requirements Directive, for example, which will only affect deals from the end of 2010); and no one has any idea how it will affect deals when it does come into force.
  • Allen & Overy has advised the Indonesian state on an issuance of $374 million in samurai bonds. This is the first sovereign samurai to receive a guarantee; this was provided by JBic. JBic was counselled by Nishimura & Asahi while Marsinih Martoatmodjo Iskandar Kusdihardjo provided assistance to the sovereign issuer.