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Dan Andrews assesses the threat posed to private equity houses by public sector disclosure requirements

IFLR held its biggest-ever awards ceremonies in March, with events in Hong Kong and London to reward the top firms for innovation in corporate finance in 2004

Ian Sideris and Simon Puleston Jones ask whether credit default swaps in synthetic CDOs are becoming more commoditized and analyze the technical issues in swap documentation

Argentina might have set important precedents for sovereign debt deals, but big questions remain unanswered. Anna Gelpern explains

New regulatory limitations on offshore restructuring by Chinese private enterprises will limit their ability to attract overseas financing, say Terence Foo and Jeffrey Ren

Daniel Whitehead explains what debt capital markets participants can learn from recent English law litigation over the responsibilities of trustees

To encourage mergers and acquisitions and thereby the restructuring of companies in Turkey, certain tax advantages to merging companies have been regulated under the relevant tax regulations. The banking crisis in 2001 has prompted the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) to encourage restructuring of the banking system and strengthen the financial structure of banks by setting out certain benefits in its regulations for merging banks under the Regulation on the Merger and Acquisition of Banks (the Regulation).

Australia's first successful proceedings for civil penalty and compensation orders for insider trading bode well for the regulator's attempts to rid the market of misconduct. By John Warde and Kim Reid

The Danish Government has recently proposed a new form of charge over the assets of businesses. In English terms, the virksomhedspant would be recognized as a form of a fixed and floating charge. If introduced, the proposal could benefit financial institutions and corporations by simplifying the structure for taking security over assets of businesses. The vehicle would be a special mortgage deed registered in a public registry with reference to the assets (or, in a restricted form, to the portfolio of trade receivables). Previously, in Denmark, the regime for taking security required that individual assets be recognized and identified and the security over them established with reference to those particular assets.

Securitization techniques could double aid payments to developing nations, say Mark Nicolaides, John-Patrick Sweny and Hannah Dutch