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By Bruno Basuyaux, Jacques Buhart, Frédéric Grillier and Hubert Segain of Herbert Smith

By Vicente Conde and Oriol Armengol of Perez-Llorca

Karol Siska and Lucia Tadlánková of CHSH Siska & Partners outline the Slovak Republic's new squeeze-out regime

Christoph Heiz, Alexander Vogel and Thomas Ladner of Meyer Lustenberger outline Switzerland's flexible new regulations for private equity investments

Nathalie van Woerkom and Carlos Pita Cao of AKD Prinsen Van Wijmen outline Dutch efforts to be more fund-friendly

Kathleen Ng of Asia Private Equity Research discusses developments in the world's most dynamic markets

It's been brewing for a few years now, but it looks like 2007 will be the year that private equity will have to shelter from the storm that it started. There has always been some criticism of private equity, but in the last few months politicians and other industry figureheads have begun to speak out against it in earnest. In many European countries there has even been political lobbying against private equity.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (Amendment) Bill 2007 was read a second time in Parliament on February 12 2007. The Bill seeks to enable the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to carry out its functions more effectively in meeting the challenges of a dynamic global financial and regulatory landscape.

Polish law continues to change following accession to the EU. Spring 2007 brings in new changes, some of them listed below.

The anti-monopoly review procedures for M&A involving foreign investors were first established in 2003 by The Interim Regulations on Merger with and Acquisition of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors (Interim M&A Regulations). In 2006 The Regulations on Merger with and Acquisition of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors (M&A Regulations) replaced the Interim M&A Regulations and set forth a special chapter on anti-monopoly review, without making any changes to relevant provisions in the Interim M&A Regulations.