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Ashurst is set to launch a new office in Luxembourg, in October. Partner Isabelle Lentz, the head of the firm’s Luxembourg desk, founded in 2011, will be managing partner of the office.

The US financial system is under threat, and experts believe that the structured finance space is likely to be the cause of the next financial crisis

Shihani Soysa Chune Loong Lum In China, Linklaters announced that it has received regulatory approval from the Shanghai Bureau of Justice for its joint operations with Zhao Sheng Law Firm.

Forty-eight hours after Britain finally devised some sort of framework for its negotiation with the European Union, Brexit secretary David Davies resigned and was replaced by housing minister Dominic Raab, foreign secretary Boris Johnson resigned.

The football World Cup is now in full swing. At the time of writing the winning country is still to be determined though every member of the IFLR team has their favourite.

China's central bank governor Yi Gang announced in April that China would implement six steps to open up the financial sector by the end of 2018. Since then, a number of measures have been taken to progress towards this goal including increased caps on the foreign ownership of securities brokerages, investment funds, futures firms and life companies. A move towards the final removal of caps can be expected within three years. Foreign funded banks can also be allowed to underwrite and sell government bonds in China. Other plans include increasing accessibility to China's equity markets such as through the London-Shanghai Stock Connect. Foreign players like Nomura, JP Morgan and UBS have begun to raise their shareholdings in China. JP Morgan has applied to set up a majority ownership securities firm while UBS has raised its shareholding proportion in UBS Securities from 24.99% to 51% and Nomura has announced a plan to set up a holding firm.

The UK is opening up the listing process. It may encounter difficulties along the way

The Macau SAR Legislative Assembly has recently approved the draft of a new Bill to reform the SAR's arbitration framework by unifying and modernising the legislative regimes for both domestic and international commercial arbitration. The draft Bill proposes this will be done by matching the practices and standards defined under the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.

On June 12 2018, the Brazilian federal government enacted long-anticipated changes to the country's mining legislation in an effort to foster investment in the sector.

New rules were incorporated into the Commercial Code as of January 1 2018 that broaden the liability of the statutory bodies of corporations and members of trading companies.