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  • Nicholas Frome and Claude Brown of Clifford Chance LLP explain the tension between the credit derivative market and bank-led insolvency workouts
  • The Islamic bond market took a step forward in August with a Sharia-compliant securities issue backed bymultiple assets, rather than a single leasing agreement as done previously.
  • India's capital markets got a boost in late July with the country's first convertible bond since 2001, and the first such deal without credit enhancement since 1997.
  • When Hong Kong released its first Code on Real Estate Investment Trusts (Reits) on July 30, Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited had already launched the first ever Reit transaction involving Hong Kong properties. It chose Singapore as the listing venue.
  • There was further evidence last month of a return to business for US securities lawyers left dormant by the bear market as a series of initial public offerings (IPOs) hit the trading floor. In the matter of a few weeks a string of equity offerings emerged, equalling the product of whole quarters earlier in the year.
  • The French government has promised to reform the country's outmoded bankruptcy laws after claiming the international banking community left French engineering group Alstom to sink because the laws make lenders liable for all debts if they fund a non-viable company.
  • France has changed its consumer code to ensure usury law does not apply to high-yield bonds, resolving legal uncertainty.
  • France recently overhauled its financial regulatory system, but stopped short of following the US's tough tactics towards insider trading. Eric Cafritz and James Gillespie of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson compare the different approaches
  • A new Greek law has expanded securitization into the private sector. George Pergamalis of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer explains what market participants need to consider when doing their deals
  • A new law in Spain establishes a regime that goes beyond pure tax incentives, and could represent Spain's entry into the race to be the jurisdiction with most favourable taxation for debt issues.