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By Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

By Xavier Périnne and Thierry Kouandjeu of HPMBC Clyde & Co

By Shinichi Takahashi, Ryoko Takeda and Ciara Brady of Nishimura & Partners

Bala Nadarajah is senior counsel and head of the corporate department at ASW. He is considered a leading voice in insurance law and regulation in Bermuda and is listed among the world's leading insurance and reinsurance lawyers in the Euromoney Legal Media Group's Expert Guides. He presently serves as a director of the Bermuda Monetary Authority; he is a member of the Insurance Advisory Committee and its insurance regulatory sub-committee. Bala was legal adviser to Bermuda's Ministry of Finance, Registrar of Companies and Insurance, the Bermuda Monetary Authority and Insurance Advisory Committee from 1979 to 1986, during which time he assisted in drafting Bermuda's insurance regulations and in the consolidation of the Companies Act 1981.

By Bala Nadarajah, Neil Horner, Kehinde George of Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki

By Dr Jost Kienzle of CMS Hasche Sigle

The opportunities in China to use securitization to fund expansion are there. But without the necessary reforms, hurdles such as bankruptcy-remoteness, obligor consent, withholding tax and convertibility will continue to stunt the development of the market, explains Neil Campbell of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker

Lenders to project finance deals in China have to weigh the benefits of investing against legal uncertainties over issues such as security, offshore bank accounts and syndicated loan fees. By Li Zhiqiang and Xie Yong of Jin Mao Law Firm

Chinese banks must continue to improve risk management practices and their monitoring of borrowers to ensure they do not accumulate any more non-performing loans, say John ZL Huang and Donna Li of AllBright Law Offices

Jan Meyers and David Ballegeer of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton examine the impact of the EU's Conglomerates Directive on capital adequacy requirements for bank and insurance groups