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Indonesia has unveiled a plan to bring about a big bang in its semi-closed economy, as the country's new leadership seeks to rev up its deregulation drive and put its protectionist history behind it.

Diversity; a source of richness, even in the financial world Europe's covered bond community breathed a collective sigh of relief last month following Commissioner Hill's suggestion that he is not seeking a single rulebook for the asset class.

This latest instalment of Corporate Governance Quarterly analyses a Delaware ruling that revisits the Revlon rule. It could change the way boards sell their companies

Perry Yam Austrian boutique RAUTNER announced the hire of its second partner in February. Meera Ramakrishnan, who joined from the Law Office of Dr F Schwank, will advise on banking and finance, corporate and M&A and real-estate matters.

Ed Batts Penelope Jensen It's shaping up as a year of aggressive lateral hiring by US corporate firms. ORRICK HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE scored a coup with the appointment of Ed Batts as global co-head of its M&A and private equity practices based in the firm's Silicon Valley office.

When the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) announced its second round of foreign bank licensing last December, many were shocked by the pace of the country's liberalisation. But whether their astonishment was a remnant of euphoria from the National League's landslide election victory, or dizziness from a sudden revocation of all foreign exchange licences, was anyone's guess. While some domestic and foreign banks have questioned the government's seemingly overzealous quest for foreign investment, with the first round having taken place just a year prior, others have begun to feel the pinch of reality.

The transatlantic transition is not always straightforward. But as Travers Smith's Charles Bischoff, Danny Peel and Jamie Parish explain, it looks set to continue

TLAC is the strongest sign yet that TBTF has seen its last days. Morrison & Foerster's Oliver Ireland and Jared Kaplan explain why

In December 2015 the Cyprus Ministry of Finance issued a Decree implementing the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development’s (the OECD) Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on the Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information (MCAA)

Multinationals are still pouring into the region. Winston & Strawn's Zoe Ashcroft explains why a joint venture's structural foundation is key to its success