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Sidley Austin and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz advised on the IPO of investment bank KBW, which operates through its registered subsidiary Keefe Bruyette & Woods.

Recommended firms Tier 1 Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice – Advogados Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados Pinheiro Neto Advogados White & Case Tier 2 Lefosse Advogados Levy & Salomão Advogados Motta Fernandes Rocha Advogados Pinheiro Guimarães – Advogados Souza Cescon Avedissian Barrieu e Flesch Advogados Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva Advogados Brazil has enjoyed a strong year as it leads the economic improvement seen across much of Latin America. The initial public offerings (IPO) market has boomed, with the value of deals more than doubling from just under $1.8 billion in the first nine months of 2005 to $4.2 billion in the same period this year.

A friendly, flightless and happy-go-lucky bird, the dodo got left behind by evolution. With no natural predators, it was defenceless against the settlers that hunted it and died out on the island of Mauritius in 1681. It is the paradigmatic example of how a failure to change and evolve can lead to rapid extinction.

Tender offers are a new phenomenon in Brazil, and are raising difficult legal questions as a result

Investors need to consider their intentions in Chinese banks

A new flexible structure from Carrera will be much copied

Need for SEC relief

The pace of the public market's growth in Argentina has been markedly restrained in recent years, to the point where the Argentine stock market is not regarded as a liquid market. During 2006, the Merval (the local index on domestic share returns) has registered a negative return on US dollars, while the Bovespa (one of Brazil's indexes, used as Latin America's benchmark) registered, for the same period, a 35% return on US dollars.

Should firms have dedicated teams for US hybrid securities?

Bondholders are seizing on late filings by issuers as an opportunity to squeeze the company