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Andrew Malcolm explains how Hong Kong is overhauling its outmoded securities laws to bring the jurisdiction's offering regime in line with international best practices

Hedge funds are increasingly interested in Japan as the economy recovers and reforms ease investment. But the regulatory environment remains challenging and funds must be aware of the risks. By Christopher P Wells

Steven Bennett and Sam Millar compare the different approaches to e-discovery in the US and the UK, highlighting the difficulties that international businesses face

Nowadays, the bulk of commercial documentary exchanges are electronic, and thus the scope of parties' rights and obligations in connection with disclosure of so-called e-materials must be properly understood. The provisions of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) were recently clarified in this respect with the update of Practice Direction 31 (PD-31).

On October 15 2005, the Securities and Futures Act of Singapore was amended to introduce changes to the securities offering regime that have clarified the position on public offers. The aim of the amendments is to make fundraising easier and less cost-prohibitive for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by dispensing with the need for a prospectus. The clarity in the definition of what amounts to an offer to the public is achieved by classifying all offers of securities (shares, debentures or units of shares and debentures) as a public offer unless the offer docks within a safe harbour.

Kathleen Ng of the Centre for Asia Private Equity Research considers the reasons for Asia's extraordinary fundraising success over the past year and predicts the challenges ahead

Phillip Fletcher explains the art of negotiating an international project financing to achieve consensus in the absence of set rules