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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

The downturn has made life harder for everyone in California’s technology sector, but as they showed after the Asian financial crisis, lawyers are able to adapt by meeting new needs and new clients. Tom Nicholson reports from California on how firms are surviving

UBS has raided Homburger Rechtsanwälte in Zurich to hire a new group general counsel for the Swiss bank.

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.

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

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

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

In the second of a two-part series, Ellen Hayes and Amy Cummings of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Washington DC, look at how recent developments in the use of multilateral agencies and political risk insurance can help investors gain confidence in project finance

According to article 758 of Poland's Civil Code, as amended by the Law on Amendment of the Civil Code Act of July 26 2000, agency is based on a contract by means of which the person accepting the mandate (agent) assumes the obligation to mediate permanently, within the scope of the activity of his or her enterprise, for a financial consideration, in the conclusion of contracts with clients for the benefit of the entrepreneur being the principal, or in the conclusion of such contracts in the prinicipal's name.