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The difficulties of combining a career on the cello with being a lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb

Debt Four firms are advising on The Commercial Bank of Qatar's $900 million listing of global depository receipts (GDRs) – the first by a Qatari listed company in nearly 10 years. Simmons & Simmons advised the Commercial Bank of Qatar on Qatari law including the private placement and pre-emptive rights issue. It also advised Morgan Stanley and Société Générale on Qatari law. Clifford Chance represented The Commercial Bank of Qatar on UK and US law, while Davis Polk & Wardwell and Slaughter and May advised the sole global coordinator, Morgan Stanley, on US and UK law.

Asia's disparate jurisdictions do create problems. But companies benefit from lighter regulation, argue James Wadham and Andrew Whan

Hedge funds in Asia are waiting to swoop on companies struggling with new legislation

Florin Dobre and Andrei Dumitrache of Pachiu & Associates discuss the rules and practicalities that affect public takeovers

Corporate legislation continues to adapt for a market economy, say Ancuta Leach, Ligia Popescu and Carmen Anghelie of Wolf Theiss

On June 1 2008, an amendment to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law and Cabinet Office Ordinance took effect, revising the English-Language Disclosure System. The system, adopted in December 2005 for issuers of foreign exchange traded funds (ETFs), allows some foreign issuers to provide disclosure documents in English rather than Japanese. The revisions have created a new disclosure system with reduced requirements for increased participation and scope and could have a significant effect on foreign issuers. However, although the revisions aimed to relax requirements for foreign issuers, the overall burden may not prove to be so different.

Banks badly need capital. It can come from private equity if regulation is liberalised

How the victory for receivers in the UK will drive decisions on other deals

Structured finance documentation has been revealed as inscrutable and ambiguous