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Singapore, like a number of Asian economies, has been recovering steadily after the disasters of the previous decade. Governmental schemes directed at improving the performance of the debt market have dragged up corporate bond issuance. The debt market has been the subject of a great deal of attention from the government and the financial industry in Singapore, and it is here that steady growth in the volume and value of deals can be seen. The equity market has not enjoyed such a sustained development between 2005 and 2006.

Recommended firms Tier 1 A&L Goodbody Arthur Cox McCann FitzGerald Tier 2 Matheson Ormsby Prentice William Fry Ireland may still be the Celtic Tiger but its capital markets have had a mixed ride in 2006. Economic growth is expected to be around 5% both this year and in 2007, but securities issuance has been up in some areas, down in others and static in still others.

How capital markets trends have affected firms in 20 economies worldwide

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.

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Security interests are increasingly being created as warranty for financing schemes in Albania. Legislation regulates two different regimes concerning the creation and enforcement of security interest.

Recommended firms Tier 1 Hannes Snellman Roschier Holmberg White & Case Tier 2 Castrén & Snellman Merilampi Marttila Laitasalo Waselius & Wist Tier 3 Borenius & Kemppinen Equity in the Nordic region proved extremely popular in 2006, with the few large initial public offerings heavily oversubscribed. The lack of IPOs, together with the competitiveness of bond or bank issuance as a source of funding for Finnish companies, made secondary placements a more fertile source of deals for bankers and their lawyers. These included two placings for Sampo Housing Loan Bank.

The IFLR Capital Markets Review 2006, annual analysis of the biggest financial and product trends of the past year and how they are affecting the business of running a law firm

The questions raised by class actions against Imax in Ontario

Peter Castellon of Citigroup explains which type of lawyer is suited to working in-house