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The attachment of a debtor's assets is a very convenient tool for securing the recovery of an outstanding claim. Besides conventional assets, such as bank accounts or real estate, the creditor may also consider attaching more exotic items owned by the debtor: luxury cars, artworks or, why not, a private jet. We set out below the key requirements and certain practical aspects to consider when seeking the attachment of an aircraft located in Switzerland.

The existing labour shortage is providing fertile ground for the establishment of new unions, or the strengthening of the position of existing ones, and many employers find themselves facing this prospect. The establishment of a trade union is a relatively simple process which, when combined with the prevailing situation in the job market, has contributed to the fact that trade unions are cropping up around Slovakia often only as a form of bullying employers. Increasingly we are encountering cases where the persons who establish these unions do not even actually work for the particular employer where the union is being formed. These people select companies based mainly on their economic performance and then send out mass mailings to employers informing them that a union has been established in their workplace, often stating unreasonable and even absurd demands. They have no knowledge of the conditions at play at any employer, and only afterwards do they try to recruit the workers as members of the union. There has not yet been established a cohesive and effective form of defence against these practices.

Korea has no laws and regulations which are specifically apply to cryptocurrencies. The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) and other Korean regulatory bodies have issued a number of press releases on basic government policies regarding, among other things, initial coin offerings (ICOs), cryptocurrency exchanges, and Ponzi schemes and other fraudulent activities involving bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

One component of the EU's Capital Markets Union project is to ensure that securitisations are carried out in a transparent and risk-reflective manner, and that they are of high quality. As with many other financial instruments, this more cautious approach is a direct reaction to practices that were brought to light by the financial crisis.

Sfera Legal, based in Costa Rica, has continued its regional expansion with the launch of Sfera Legal El Salvador and Sfera Legal Nicaragua. The firm is now present in four central American countries.

On December 1 2017, partial amendments to the Act on Specified Joint Real Estate Ventures (Amended Act) came into force. The Amended Act is aimed at making the specified joint real estate ventures system more accessible. The following is a brief summary of the new business categories established by the Amended Act.

As part of its continuing bureaucratic and economic reform programme, the Indonesian government has streamlined the country's expatriate employment requirements. The new rules, which are set out in Presidential Regulation No 20 of 2018, come into force at the end of June 2018, three months after the Regulation's promulgation.

Rishabh Shroff and Varsha Reddy of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas examine Indian rules surrounding investment in Japan

On April 26 2018, the Brazilian Central Bank issued new regulations (i) allowing certain types of transactions by credit fintechs, exclusively through electronic lending platforms; and, (ii) covering the areas of cybersecurity, data storage and cloud computing applicable to financial and payment institutions.

Change is coming to the way stock transfers are recorded as blockchain technology allows stockholder lists to be managed electronically