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Europe's top lawyers and banks had an immense range of proposed regulation, crisis management and legal structures to debate at this year's Capital Markets Forum in London

Two deals could be the start of a new debt market

The financial crisis is dragging more and more European companies into US courts

Unfortunately, and as expected, the implementation of the new Russian law is clear as mud President Medvedev has approved legislation that will allow foreign securities to be offered into Russia for the first time. The new Securities Law will come into force on May 16, but there is concern over its application.

No one is happy with the EU's draft directive for regulating hedge funds and private equity. Not the industry and not those targeting it.

The President of the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK) launched a stinging attack on the draft alternative investment directive at the IBA International Financial Law Conference in Rome last week.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation may have to put the final Legacy Loans Programme on the shelf in response to banks’ requests to buy toxic assets as well as selling them

DJ Baker and Rosalie Gray are joining Latham & Watkins from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising German car parts manufacturer Honsel on its restructuring. Slaughter and May, Gleiss Lutz and Linklaters have been counselling RHJ International, which is investing €50 million ($69.4 million) into Honsel in return for a 51% stake. Honsel's senior term lenders will hold the remaining 49%, following a debt-for-equity swap on which it was advised by Latham & Watkins in London and Hamburg. Sullivan & Cromwell is acting for the mezzanine, payment-in-kind and security agents. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is advising the Senior Agent.

It is essential that partners know all the options available to them for rights issues. At 11am on Wednesday June 3, IFLR is hosting a web seminar on the options and examples to choose from