Search results for

Securing rehabilitation at home can just be the first step for a Korean company in trouble. By Jin Yeong Chung and Milosz Zurkowski, Kim & Chang

Greenshoes can create large profits for underwriters if stabilisation purchases are successful. But no one knows at what point it becomes market abuse

Infrastructure and project finance partner George Miller is joining Mayer Brown from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

Low Kah Keong of WongPartnership describes the benefits of domiciling in Singapore

Rob Little and Luis Cunha of Al-Sarraf & Al-Ruwayeh discuss the different supports available for Kuwaiti banks, foreign financial institutions and investment companies

By Alasdair Robertson and Joanne Ziegler of Maples and Calder in the Cayman Islands

The sukuk market in Kuwait has now started to explore convertible and exchangeable structures, say Hossam Abdullah and Riza Ismail of Al-Sarraf & Al-Ruwayeh

A year ago, Senators Ron Wyden (Democrat, Oregon) and Charles Grassley (Republican, Iowa) released a discussion draft of a bill that would eliminate the favourable tax treatment of direct and certain derivative investments in oil, natural gas or any primary product of oil or natural gas (such as diesel and gasoline), and solicited public comments. On August 6 2009, senator Wyden introduced the Stop Tax-breaks for Oil Profiteering Act (the Stop Act) in the Senate and proposed legislation based on the discussion draft released in 2008. The Stop Act is intended to temporarily curb excessive speculative trading in the oil and gas futures markets and thereby temper the rise in the price of oil. If enacted into law, the legislation would apply to transactions entered into during a period of a little more than four years. The Stop Act has been referred to the Senate Finance Committee. It is impossible to predict its progress in the legislative process and whether and in what form it may be enacted into law.

Recently the Slovak Republic, in an attempt to foster the attractiveness of investments in renewable energy technologies and to meet the country's EU targets, adopted a bill on the promotion of the renewable energy and high-efficiency cogeneration (RES Promotion Act). Main incentive schemes will enter into force on January 1 2010.

Dr Trevor A Carmichael, QC of Chancery Chambers explains why Barbados is great for holding companies with Chinese interests, among other things