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  • The loosening of US travel and trade restrictions on Cuba opens new opportunities for US financial institutions.
  • State issuers often include carve outs from their waiver of sovereign immunity. But Clifford Chance’s Robert Trefny explains it's not clear whether the law supports such protections
  • The likely default of Kaisa called into question the structures of offshore Chinese bonds. Across Asia, restructuring lawyers have more or less thought 'I told you so', as bondholders responded last month by selling their Chinese real-estate holdings in fear of future defaults.
  • Onshore ChinaCo bankruptcies will continue to prioritise social stability and local interests over more esoteric financial concerns such as capital structures, according to a recent report by Fitch Ratings.
  • Shenzhen-based property developer Kaisa's recent default has drawn renewed attention to the nuances of cross-default clauses in loans, bonds and derivatives.
  • No access to historical data is one of the market’s first challenges
  • Both bidders and targets will now need one
  • Hong Kong's Bingham McCutchen saga finally came to a close last month with Vincent Sum, the city's last partner standing at the now defunct firm, joining MAYER BROWN JSM. Late last year there had been a six-partner exodus from the US outfit with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld the beneficiary.
  • Fitch's managing director for banks has spoken out about the agency's newly-announced plan to downgrade almost a third of Europe's banks in 2015.
  • Last month the US eased its trade and travel restrictions on Cuba, including easing restrictions on financial institutions. The policy change follows an announcement by President Obama in December to change the 54 year-old policy. Obama can't lift the trade embargo without approval from Congress, but through the Treasury and Departments of Commerce he was able to ease some of the rules.