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Europe: The big reveal

Can regulation improve culture? It's the biggest question facing the architects of the UK's senior managers' regime, which has been in effect since March 7 this year and is already being eyed up by other jurisdictions. An IFLR poll earlier this year revealed that 55% of readers don't think it can.

October 20 2016

Asia: Big Brother

China's ambition to follow in Japan's footsteps and build a global business empire has not shown any signs of abating, with well-known Chinese billionaires leading the country's global expansionist drive. But the modern version of an (economically-driven) manifest destiny, made inevitable by China's accumulating wealth, is increasingly being met with heavy resistance from governments and grassroots advocacy groups alike.

October 20 2016

Priips need careful structuring

The EU needs to go back to the drawing board

October 20 2016

UN cross-border insolvency law revisited

Cross-border insolvency laws face some practical adoption hurdles

October 20 2016

Boosting cross-border fund distribution

Regulators must break down the barriers to the distribution of funds across member states to improve cross-border investment and capital market activity in the EU, according to a September report by France's securities regulator.

October 20 2016

DEAL: Moscow City Ring Road section 3

Avtoban is on its way to achieving financial close on the multi-billion MCRR project

October 20 2016

DEAL: Petrobras’ $5.2 billion pipeline sale

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.

Edward Price, October 20 2016

DEAL: World’s first green masala bond

The world's first green masala bond has brought the lack of clarity over the full application of India's capital gains tax to the surface.

October 20 2016

DEAL: Hinkley Point C

Financing for the largest ever Chinese investment into the UK, nuclear power station Hinkley Point C, has successfully closed. The power station is also Europe's biggest infrastructure project.

October 20 2016

Asia/Pacific

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.

October 20 2016

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