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Thomas Abbondante Allen & Overy's debt practice made waves again last month when the firm helped secure the largest ever high-yield bond issue by a European company outside the telecommunications sector. US partners Thomas Abbondante and Adam Kupitz led the firm's high-yield team advising Goldman Sachs International, Royal Bank of Scotland and Hypovereinsbank on the euro 550 million ($471 million) 10.4% bond issued by Messer Griesheim Holding, the holding company of the German industrial gases group Messer Griesheim.

Jonathan Inman, head of project finance at Linklaters in Tokyo, is leaving the firm's Japanese office in June. He will resume his work in the London office at the end of August, advising energy clients such as Enron, following the end of his secondment.

UK firm Lovells has boosted its corporate and finance practices in London, Frankfurt and Paris by poaching five partners from the European offices of rival US and UK firms.

Insiders face many legal obstacles to trading their company’s stock, but Rule 10b5-1(c) can provide a solution in the form of advance trading plans. Steven Bochner and Leslie Hakala of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati reveal how this often overlooked regulation can help

The Turkish parliament passed a new law amending the law of the Turkish Central Bank on April 25. This Law is designed to free the Turkish Central Bank from political influence and authorizes it to streamline monetary policy as a completely autonomous body.

James Walker and Tongeun Kim of Clifford Chance, Hong Kong analyze Prudential Financial’s two-stage strategic investment of up to $500 million in Korea’s CJ Investment Trust and Securities

Linklaters & Alliance is acting on a ground-breaking public-to-private utility services deal in Ecuador. The project will provide International Water (IW) with a 30-year concession to operate, maintain and upgrade the drinking water and sewage system in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The UK firm is also advising on shareholder arrangements to regulate the sponsors' involvement in the project company.

Linklaters advises on BT rights issue

Matthew Cahill, Paul Severs and Yasuhiro Akita of Clifford Chance Tanaka & Akita, Tokyo, examine how regulatory changes are opening the door to securitization in post-financial crisis Japan

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