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More customised fundraising and increased regulation has led to longer, and highly negotiated side letters. Here are the six areas limited partners must focus on

Garuda Airlines has become the first Indonesian corporate issuer to tap the international Islamic finance market last month. More deals are expected.

Richard Levin Amy Leder The start of summer has been a time of change in the competitive offshore legal market. In the Cayman Islands, HARNEYS announced that Ian Gobin, a partner and former head of the investment funds practice at Appleby, will be moving over to the firm along with Matthew Taber and Jonathan Bernstein, who have worked with him as counsel and senior associate, respectively. Harneys made another major gain in the British Virgin Islands with the addition of offshore investments specialist Greg Boyd from Carey Olsen. In the US, SIDLEY AUSTIN has been expanding. In May, the firm opened its second Los Angeles office, in Century City. The firm appointed Daniel Clivner, head of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett's LA practice since 1998, as co-managing partner of the new office. Clivner is joined by Matthew Thompson, former M&A partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, and real-estate specialist Joel Rothstein from Paul Hastings.

Pieced together, recent initiatives reveal RMB’s internationalisation Banks and corporates must quickly adjust to the continuing internationalisation of the renminbi – including the need for hedging strategies – according to speakers at the release of a report on the currency. Announcements over the past few weeks have highlighted the pace of reform. This includes the introduction of mutual recognition of mainland China and Hong Kong funds, the opening of the China International Payments System (CIPS) by end-2015, and MSCI and Vanguard's decision to include A-shares in their respective indices.

Repo and the Capital Markets Union dominated debate at last month’s industry event. Here are the highlights

Conversion of an out-of-the-money interest rate hedge into a super senior swap term loan sets a significant precedent for distressed securitisation

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas's Ganesh Rao, Pallabi Ghosaland Ramola Nayanpally explain why the industry is still grappling with the extraterritorial reach of rules released last September

Elborne Mitchell's Ned Swan explains why Barclays’ recent penalty for manipulating the benchmark will be the first of many imposed on the banking sector

Shareholder activists are gaining significant influence over the country’s listed companies. But it’s happening behind closed doors. Patrick Nordhues of Seitz analyses how

In this latest instalment of Corporate Governance Quarterly, K&L Gates' David Bernstein explains why a corporation shouldn’t have to abandon business objectives solely in order to create short term stock gains