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Cleary Gottlieb's Andrew Shutter and Sui-Jim Ho explain how lawyers and lawmakers are finding new ways to make debt instruments subject to majority rule

Following the release of its dual-class concept paper, Shearman & Sterling's Jayesh Wadhwani asks whether the exchange must allow these structures to remain competitive

B y the time you read this, you'll be living in a single supervisory world. On November 4 the European Central Bank (ECB), under the auspices of its Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) will become fully responsible for 130 eurozone banks, and some non-eurozone member states too.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) announced last month that it is considering several proposals to improve transparency in the equities and fixed income market.

The definition of liquidity posited in a key piece of the post-crisis regulatory framework will not work for the swaps industry, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda).

A capital markets union is regulators’ latest attempt to diversify corporates’ funding sources. But what should the concept actually entail?

The creation of Europe's second biggest telecommunications company sets a new benchmark for antitrust clearance in the region, and paves the way for more consolidation in this year's already busy telecom sector.

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) guidelines on limiting leverage have sparked debate about the extent to which they will impact Europe.

Myanmar's first non-recourse financing involving international banks may open infrastructure financing in the frontier market.

Joseph Kim, Hogan Lovells BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN may have lost 25 partners globally over the past few weeks, but its Hong Kong office benefited from the arrival of corporate partners Matthew Puhar and Charles Rogers. KIRKLAND & ELLIS's Hong Kong practice also strengthened its Asia corporate practice by bringing in Ropes & Gray private equity expert Gary Li. DLA Piper in Singapore lost capital markets expert and India head Biswajit Chatterjee to SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS, a week after the firm saw the exit of Asia head Bob Charlton to BERWIN LEIGHTON PAISNER in Hong Kong as its new head of Asia and managing partner.