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Recommended firms Tier 1 Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice – Advogados Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados Pinheiro Neto Advogados Tier 2 Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva Advogados The takeoff in Brazil's equity capital markets has been mirrored by a leap in M&A. According to Dealogic, in the first 10 months of 2006 there were 193 deals involving a Brazilian target, up from 123 over the same period in 2005. These have been worth $47.6 billion, more than six times the value for last year.

The explosive growth of China and India contributed to a strong sense of optimism among the lawyers gathered at IFLR's second Asia Capital Markets Forum in Hong Kong last month

Kirk A Davenport of Latham & Watkins, and Melanie F Dolan and Yuki Hayashi of KPMG provide practical help in charting a course through US financial statement requirements

Tax changes could mean the end of the funds

Advice for incumbents facing late offers

The SEC should review its approach to takeover offers for non-US targets

Every country has its own idiosyncrasies

After visits carried out earlier in the year to evaluate supervision in the financial sector, the International Monetary Fund recently published its Financial Sector Supervision Report for Cyprus. The supervision of commercial banks, cooperative credit institutions, the stock market and insurance companies is carried out by four distinct entities: the Central Bank of Cyprus, the Cooperative Societies' Supervision and Development Authority, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Superintendent of Insurance.

A new Takeover Act came into effect in March 2006 in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBIH), one of the two entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH). (The other entity of BIH, the Republic of Srpska, has a similar law, the Law on Takeover of Joint Stock Companies, which came into effect in 2002.)

The idea of working within China's opaque political system is scary at the best of times. The ability to get real security over onshore assets has held back development there consistently, and the only deals you can ever be sure will work are those with obvious political backing – such as the ICBC IPO.