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How to finance buyouts in Japan Minoru Ota and Kentaro Suzuki of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu outline the opportunities and the challenges when financing leveraged and management buyouts in Japan

Momentum builds for equity and equity-linked products Japan's capital markets are showing promising signs that they can sustain their recent growth, with investors snapping up new products and a changing regulatory framework that is encouraging capital raising. By Piyasena Perera and Joshua Schwab of Allen & Overy

Effective security packages bring project finance surge Project finance in Japan is booming as security packages evolve to meet the demands of increasingly complex transactions, explains Naoaki Eguchi of Tokyo Aoyama Aoki Law Office/Baker & McKenzie

Disclosure reforms to restore investor trust The updated Securities and Exchange Law aims to give investors in Japan'’s securities markets renewed confidence by ensuring higher and more reliable disclosure standards. Hiroyuki Ishizuka and Masaki Konishi of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu explain

Hostile takeovers in Japan: the UFJ example David G Litt of O'Melveny & Myers and Hajime Iwaki of Watanabe Kokusai Law Offices analyze the implications of the UFJ-Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group takeover deal for M&A practices in Japan

Giving Japan's distressed assets a well-needed workout Japanese companies accept that they need private - mainly foreign - money to help them out of their financial troubles, and restructurings and buyouts are booming. Andrew Crooke asks Fumitaka Eshima, UBS's head of legal in Japan, what challenges investors and their financiers face when structuring these deals

NYSE: busy holiday season The US securities markets traditionally have a short burst of activity sandwiched between Thanksgiving in late November and Christmas the following month.

After an 18-month wait, the first deal has closed under the German true-sale initiative (TSI) platform that was designed to facilitate Germany's nascent true-sale securitization market.

Allen & Overy advised Lecico Egypt on its $132.6 million initial public offering (IPO) in November, the first IPO by an Egyptian company since 2000.

Steven Christopher, Mallesons Linklaters' Asia practice has suffered a rare defection after Steven Christopher, head of its banking group, resigned to join Mallesons Stephen Jaques as a partner in its Hong Kong office from early this month. Christopher, a debt-financing specialist, is a 14-year veteran in the region. His decision to join the Australian firm follows soon after it merged with Kwok & Yih to give it greater China access. Mallesons chief Robert Milliner said the new hire is a direct response to growing client demand for an increased presence on the ground in Hong Kong.