IFLR is part of Legal Benchmarking Limited, 1-2 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8ND

Copyright © Legal Benchmarking Limited and its affiliated companies 2025

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement

Search results for

There are 25,679 results that match your search.25,679 results
  • Political chaos in the Philippines has left firms struggling for deals and finding project finance and restructuring still the best bets. Nick Ferguson reports
  • Ashurst Morris Crisp in Tokyo is advising Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) on a $1 billion project to expand an aluminium smelter in Mozambique, which is expected to reach financial close in June.
  • Many foreign firms in Japan are trying to beef up their joint enterprise offices and hire bengoshi. Although demand often outstrips supply, the big Japanese firms are beginning to feel the heat. Nick Ferguson reports from Tokyo
  • Changes in Italy’s legislation and government have done much to increase the work-load of firms in Italy. But as Thomas Williams reports from Milan and Rome, a second wave of competition from across the Atlantic is forcing Italian firms to reevaluate their strategies
  • Allen & Overy is advising on the construction of a $4 billion petrochemical plant in Guangdong Province, southern China. The firm is acting on the deal as counsel to Shell and a joint venture between Shell, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and two Chinese companies
  • Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has acted on a mortgage-backed securitization that has enabled an Australian originator to access US money markets for the first time.
  • A year ago Austria seemed about to experience the fusionsfieber seen in neighbouring Germany during the nineties. Instead, many people have gone cold on the idea of making international links. Ben Maiden reports on why the revolution has been put on hold
  • The Hong Kong and English courts of appeal have been trying to disentangle their respective company laws to identity classes of creditors for schemes of arrangement. Joe Bannister of Lovells, Hong Kong looks at two recent judgments and asks if progress has been made
  • Although China has operated stock exchanges for a decade, it has never delisted a company. Now the Chinese regulator is tightening its rules to prevent unprofitable companies from continuing to have their shares traded. Liu Haili of Richards Butler, Hong Kong, explains
  • The Hart-Scott-Rodino Act has been the cornerstone of merger control in the US for 25 years. But revisions made to the Act this year will change the threshold at which mergers need to be reported in an attempt to bring more consolidations in the high-tech sector under the control of the federal authorities. James Lowe of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC examines the changes to the notification regime