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Terje Gulbrandsen On December 10 2014, Oslo Børs (the Oslo Stock Exchange) resolved certain amendments to the listing rules, with the new rules entering into force on January 12 2015. Before the amendments, there had been a requirement that at the time of application for listing on Oslo Børs, the main part of the company's activities must not be in a pre-commercial phase. Directive 2001/34/EC on the admission of securities to official stock exchange listing does not contain any requirement for a company to have reached a commercial phase in order to be listed on a stock exchange, and nor is there any such requirement for any stock exchange comparable to Oslo Børs. Despite this, Oslo Børs has until now found it appropriate to apply such a requirement for listing on it.

Clifford Chance’s Francis Edwards, Terry Yang and Yasuyuki Takayami explain why the global requirement can clash with local confidentiality obligations

Law firms ushered in 2015 with a spate of lateral hires. KING & SPALDING's New York office bolstered its cross-border transactional capability with the addition of Ye Cecilia Hong, who was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese as well as English, Hong advises public and private borrowers and lenders on multijurisdictional distressed financings and restructurings.

As useful as a Russian bailout Rushing through emergency legislation to prop up its troubled lenders is not enough to save Russia from a financial crisis in 2015. On December 22 its central bank had to intervene after a deposit run threatened to bankrupt midsize lender National Trust Bank.

A new UK framework designed to hold parties to their promises means care must be taken before making statements in the course of a takeover battle

The likely default of Kaisa called into question the structures of offshore Chinese bonds. Across Asia, restructuring lawyers have more or less thought 'I told you so', as bondholders responded last month by selling their Chinese real-estate holdings in fear of future defaults.

Both bidders and targets will now need one

European regulators have refuted allegations that too much regulation has impeded global growth.

The city’s skyline remains intact thanks to a cleverly crafted distressed sale

Results suggest the UK has toppled the US as the bankruptcy and reorganisation hub of choice