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  • Avtoban is on its way to achieving financial close on the multi-billion MCRR project
  • A $2 billion bond offering to finance the construction and development of the New Mexico City International Airport is being hailed as the largest inaugural bond offering ever for a new airport.
  • Petrobras, the Brazilian state-owned energy company, is selling gas pipeline networks in a landmark deal. Local lawyers who worked on the $5.2 billion transaction see it as a sea-change in the country's energy market.
  • Alicia Videon Nadim Khan Aian Abbas Shaun Lascelles
  • John Baptist Chan There have been some interesting developments in the past month in some of the larger markets in Asia-Pacific. In Hong Kong, Wall Street firm CADWALADER WICKERSHAM & TAFT decided to end its operations in Beijing and Hong Kong, becoming the third major firm - following Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Chadbourne & Parke - to do so in the past 15 months in what is becoming an increasingly tough market for international outfits.
  • Monica Arora Carl Frischling Following an August lull, September saw the return of lateral movement between leading US firms.
  • Carlos Fradique-Méndez Sebastián Boada Morales The Colombian Central Bank (Banco de la República de Colombia or BRC) is the regulatory authority in charge of foreign exchange (FX) matters. As such, it is in charge of overseeing the Colombian cross-border derivatives market and the local derivatives market related to FX operations. Contracts for difference (CFDs) are generally defined as derivatives products that allow investors to take a position on the changes in value of an underlying asset. Until recently, Colombian regulation did not consider these types of products to be financial derivatives.
  • Many economic groups have been filing for judicial reorganisation in Brazil, a process similar to chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code. In certain cases, local courts have claimed jurisdiction over foreign entities filing for judicial reorganisation in Brazil, even though Brazilian law does not have any cross-border insolvency rules. Well-known judicial restructuring cases such as OGX, OAS and Schahin have helped develop case law on Brazil accepting the judicial reorganisation of foreign entities. Yet, in a recent case, the court denied such a request and re-opened discussions.
  • Elias Neocleous The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission has informed Cyprus Investment Firms it regulates of a change in the treatment of contributions to the Investors Compensation Fund (ICF) for the purposes of calculating capital adequacy. The Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2007 to 2016 requires regulated investment firms to be members of the ICF and to contribute to it.
  • The strategy of creating two classes of stock with different voting rights attached has been deemed by some as poor corporate governance. The reality is more nuanced