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Canada Recommended firms Tier 1 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Goodmans Osler Hoskin & Harcourt Stikeman Elliott Tier 2 Bennett Jones Blake Cassels & Graydon McCarthy Tétrault Ogilvy Renault Torys Tier 3 Borden Ladner Gervais Burnet Duckworth & Palmer Fasken Martineau DuMoulin Fraser Milner Casgrain Macleod Dixon The Canadian mergers and acquisitions market has gone through some interesting transitions in the last year. Firms have seen more foreign acquisitions of Canadian companies and cross-border transactions, particularly in the mining sector, which has previously seen an ebb and flow. One partner expressed concern: "Canada is being hollowed out."

Australia

The winners in the M&A boom were the firms with connections

On October 17 2007, the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) announced a partial revision of its listing rules and regulations corresponding to the items in the TSE's Comprehensive Improvement Program for the Listing System 2007, published on April 24 2007. The aim of the programme was to facilitate the operation of the secondary market, protect shareholders and investors, and help listed companies improve corporate value and international competitiveness.

Hedge funds and Islamic finance are the themes for 2008, plus the many and varied effects of the credit crunch. Tom Young, Rachel Evans, Nicholas Pettifer and Lynann Butkiewicz report

Regulators and central banks are struggling with how to deal with the lack of liquidity. On Wednesday the UK regulator released the first formal reaction to this problem

US lawyers aren't worried about the indictment of Mayer Brown partner Joseph Collins over Refco. Most in the market seem to be assuming that this was an isolated case of active fraud

Linklaters' Lisbon office has poached four lawyers from Sérvulo Correia, including the firm's head of finance.

In one of the first build-transfer-operate projects in Saudi Arabia, the Hajj Terminal has secured $205 million of Islamic debt.

A bill in the US to make mortgages easier to pay could deter banks from lending, at precisely the time when central banks are trying to increase liquidity. It could also be another blow to securitisation