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The EU General Court’s judgment last summer confirmed that PE firms are not immune to antitrust risks

Recent cases in the UK and US have tested the 128-year-old rule. Cleary Gottlieb lawyers explain what this means for future restructurings

Latham & Watkins lawyers, counsel to World Bank on the milestone transaction, discuss the creation of this new asset class and how the model can be adapted by other issuers

Companies are facing legal and operational challenges when it comes to the global move away from interbank offered rates

Baker McKenzie lawyers consider how foreign companies should approach the US’ famous Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when the goalposts keep moving

On January 21 2019, the Irish Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2018 (Act) came into force. This Act radically alters the operation of the secondary acquisition, ownership and servicing of performing and non-performing Irish consumer loans, and certain small and medium enterprise (SME) loans (together, Relevant Loans).

Amended money-laundering legislation that came into force in the Slovak Republic on November 1 2018 requires companies to register their beneficial owners in the commercial register. Previously, only companies which conducted business with the state or received public funds were required to report their beneficial owners; those beneficial owners were registered in a public register of public sector partners, a register that is separate from the commercial register. The new legislation requires all companies in Slovakia, with the exception of publicly listed companies, to register their beneficial owners in the commercial register.

Public procurement rules and procedures in Macau at the moment are spread among the different statutes that regulate the different types of contracts that can be entered into with/by Macau public entities. However the government is preparing a Bill with the goal of simplifying and updating, as well as enhancing the public procurement legal regime.

Belgium is in the process of transposing the fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which has a broader scope of application than its predecessors. Here Baker McKenzie lawyers unpick its approach

Regulators are keeping a close eye on HFT following the October trading system glitch on the TSE. Here Morgan Lewis & Bockius lawyers review the new landscape