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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

In late December 2015, Indonesia’s capital market regulator (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan or OJK) issued several new regulations affecting the venture capital industry in Indonesia

On January 1 2016, the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in the Administrative Procedure (the so-called My Number Act) came into full force

In line with the global development in the over-the-counter (OTC) market, the Capital Markets Board of Turkey (CMB) has introduced more regulations covering OTC derivatives