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The expanding volume of global trade is having a profound impact on world shipping, especially container shipment traffic. This is naturally giving rise to a need for ports with well-run facilities, infrastructure and superstructure, which in turn require high investment. Turkey – a country whose coasts are long and available for port construction, whose location makes it geopolitically important, and 91.4% of whose international trade transportation is conducted by sea – is attractive to investors interested in the port construction and operation sectors.

The right of a secured party to appoint an administrative receiver over the assets and undertaking of a BVI company without recourse to the courts is a quick and simple procedure to initiate for any person whose security is backed by a floating charge, enabling a rapid response to a default.

Martin Rogers and Donna Wacker at Clifford Chance don't think Hong Kong bankruptcy reform is on the agenda. But corporate governance improvements are

On March 31 2009, the Study Committee on the Amendment to the Civil Claims Law published a report entitled The Policy Underlying a Proposed Amendment of the Claims Law, which proposes model statutory text and explanatory commentary intended to stimulate and assist the Diet in amending Japan's Civil Code. The Committee, formed on October 7 2006 with the aim of making a new Civil Code model that integrates case law, established practices, contemporary legal theories and insightful legal commentary with the existing statutory code, is comprised of Japanese civil law scholars.

Politicised enforcement and inconsistency is frightening corporate counsel. That and Satyam

Hans Corell, ex-legal counsel to the UN, promotes greater coordination between the IBA and other world organisations

The listing of special purpose acquisition companies or Spacs on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad was introduced in May 2009 as part of a number of measures comprised in a new regulatory framework. In a joint launch of the new framework on August 3 2009, the Securities Commission and Bursa expressed the hope that the competitiveness of the Malaysian bourse as an equity-raising and listing destination will be enhanced and that the advent of Spacs, in particular, will not only promote private equity activity but also spur corporate transformation and encourage mergers and acquisitions.

“In six months’ time those notes could be a smoking gun” The UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA’s) more active investigation of banks, doubtless accelerated by the threats of the Conservative party to abolish it, has hit deals by US banks in particular.

Despite many of Russia’s proposals to modernise its bankruptcy system being lauded, to be successful it needs to consider allowing netting.

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.