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A guide to recent Chinese M&A and private equity reform

Mergers today are harder, more complex and more international. Yet they remain highly time-sensitive

How a competitive market is changing acquisition agreements, often in favour of the target company

In its August newsletter the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), while commenting on the recent report Managing, Servicing and Marketing Hedge Funds in Europe prepared by the Alternative Investment Expert Group, referred to the fact that the MFSA now approaches the licensing of its 80th hedge fund in 24 months.

As WaMu issues the first US covered bonds, Ben Maiden looks at the prospects for UK and US law firms

As of March 8 2006, the Czech Republic implemented the EU Prospectus Directive (2003/71/EC) by way of amendments to the Czech Capital Markets Act and the Czech Act on Notes. Accordingly, for the purposes of a public offer or admission to a regulated market, the prospectus approved by the competent authority of the issuer's home EU state, or the EU state where the security was first publicly offered or admitted to the regulated market (which may be different from the issuer's home state), is generally also valid in the Czech Republic (and any other EU member state). Numerous foreign issuers (banks and real estate investors) have already made use of this option to easily expand the territory of their securities offers, mostly to the central European region.

Hedge funds and emerging market bonds are not far away

Will Chile's plans to open its bond markets work?

Boon for MBOs

Size of in-house teams and the percentage who expect to grow over the next year UK law firms look set to suffer a blow to the level of work they receive from in-house legal departments. More than half (58%) of the FTSE 350 in-house legal teams surveyed in a report by accountancy firm Grant Thornton plan on increasing the size of their departments over the next 12 months. As a result of this growth, in-house counsel intend to further develop their specialist knowledge, forcing legal firms to adapt to a changing marketplace.