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  • “A minority shareholder that’s fast asleep should not be able to cripple a capital raising” In a bid to help troubled companies raise money, the Hong Kong stock exchange is set to streamline rights issues and open offers by reducing the notice period for book closure.
  • What’s good for the goose... Reverse break fees in US M&A transactions are likely to triple in the near future. But the trend is unlikely to spread to Europe.
  • 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.
  • Since before the German government described private equity as "locusts" in 2004, its acquisitions have been scrutinised, its tactics debated and – despite last month's dismissal of a class action against Blackstone's initial public offering in 2008 – its integrity questioned.
  • Latham & Watkins has hired Mark Morris to join the finance department of its Dubai office. Morris moves from Norton Rose in Dubai, and has more than four years experience in the region advising on both conventional and Islamic deals.
  • Dechert has advised New World Resources, a European hard coal producer, on a €141 million nine-year loan facility guaranteed by Euler Hermes, the export credit agency for Germany. The loan will be provided by a group of mandated lead arrangers comprising Ceska sporitelna, Ceskoslovenska obchodni banka, KBC Bank Deutschland and Natixis. Baker & McKenzie represented the mandated lead arrangers.
  • Tetsutaro Muraki of Tokyo Aim is using his experience from the World Bank to attract foreign issuers to Japan
  • Foreign investors in China can breathe a sign of relief. If their company gets into trouble, they will be treated equally with Chinese creditors
  • Regulatory and jurisdictional arbitrage are the flavour of the month for politicians. Private equity funds need to know the options they have
  • Rastko Petakovic of Karanovic & Nikolic Law Office provides a snapshot of competition policy and practice in Serbia