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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.

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

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

Recommended firms Tier 1 Advokatfirman Vinge Mannheimer Swartling Tier 2 Advokatfirman Cederquist Gernandt & Danielsson Linklaters Setterwalls Advokatbyrå White & Case Advokat Much of the innovation in the Nordic region's capital markets in 2006 surrounded new covered bond legislation. Although Finland and Iceland led the way, Sweden wasn't far behind, seeing two covered bonds issued in quick succession, by Nordea Hypotek and the Swedish Covered Bond Corporation in mid-2006.

As political unrest hits the region, South Korea can at least reflect on a successful year of performances in its capital market. While the full economic impact on South Korea of North Korean rogue diplomacy remains to be seen, both the equity and debt markets show impressive figures from 2005 to 2006. The prospect of war in the region will inevitably make foreign investors wary but South Korean economic success has been founded, in any case, on domestic efforts. A decline in the appeal of South Korea to foreign investors has not, and probably will not, have as great an impact as may be imagined.

Recommended firms Tier 1 Uría Menéndez Tier 2 Clifford Chance Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Garrigues Linklaters Ramón & Cajal The past year saw a strong return for the Spanish initial public offering (IPO) market. The first nine months saw $3.1 billion of offerings, compared to only $187 million the previous year. The first half of 2006 was the busiest period for the market since 1999.

Large-scale privatization has underpinned France's equity activity. November 2005 saw the IPO of Electricité de France, which raised €6.35 billion for the company and showed Hervé Letréguilly's team at Shearman & Sterling competing on even terms with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Sullivan & Cromwell. This was followed up by IPOs in 2006 for Arkema, Legrand, Aéroports de Paris and Züblin Immobiliére France kept ECM lawyers busy.

How firms are reacting to the stampede of equity to Europe