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Société Générale has completed a €1.7 billion issuance of non-voting preferred shares to Société de Prise de Participation de l’Etat, an entity owned by the French state.

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

Marketing is more important than disclosure for Asia’s alternative exchanges

Wolf Theiss has advised Erste Group Bank on a public offering of €2.7 billion of participation capital shares. This comprised a rights offer and a public offering of securities in Austria, Czech Republic and Romania.

O’Melveny & Myers has hired former Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson partner Sherri Snelson in London.

The 2009 Nafmii Master Agreement is a synthesis of the best international standards, with Chinese adaptations

A comparison of local regulation of rights offerings across Asia and a call for them to be harmonised

Countrywide, the UK residential estate agency, has completed a restructuring deal that includes both the injection of new equity and the reduction of existing debts. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised Apollo Management, which bought Countrywide in May 2007. The holding company, Castle Holco, was counselled by Slaughter and May and Halliwells, and Countrywide executives sought advice from Ashurst. Linklaters provided counsel to Oaktree Capital, an American private equity fund that formed part of a consortium of investors into the agency.

Unlike the Hexion or United Rentals cases, Dow tried to pull out of its acquisition by challenging specific performance as inequitable

The President of the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association launched a stinging attack on the draft alternative investment directive at the IBA conference in Rome