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What to expect from the Chinese government’s latest foreign investment and trade strategy

Bruno Marchese Peruvian regulations (Law 27287) allow for the issuance and acceptance of incomplete promissory notes as instruments representing payment obligations. The Law allows for such notes to be issued without having to set forth a specific payment date, or the actual amount payable under the note, and other stipulations that are typically included in notes and similar payment documents, but may be left blank in these incomplete promissory notes. The items left blank in the note will have to be completed by the creditor, upon the occurrence of certain events.

Shuanghui’s acquisition of Smithfield was the largest Chinese takeover of a US company to-date. Here’s why it signals that the US is open to Chinese investment

IFLR1000’s 2014 rankings identify the law firms shaping Asia and Africa’s most exciting project finance markets

For a long time the Act on Investment Aid in the Slovak Republic has regulated investment aid provided by the state budget to domestic and foreign entrepreneurs and investors. Investment aid may be provided in the following forms: financial grants from the state budget; income tax relief; grants for newly established employment positions or transfer of state property to the entrepreneur for a price lower than the given market price. Entrepreneurs can obtain investment aid in some of the listed forms for a project in one of the supported areas. The supported areas are: industrial production; technological centres; and, centres of strategic services and tourism. Providing investment aid for these areas was changed by extensive amendments to the Act on Investment Aid in force since May 1 2013.

A fragmented regulatory framework, relationship-based lending and legal restrictions have hindered the development of China’s debt capital markets

How to use Europe’s first model block transaction agreements, and how they will benefit the market

It is hard not to wonder if Standard & Poor's (S&P) has been gloating through the latest US debt ceiling fiasco.

Just another example of one size not fitting all The implementation of a single supervisory mechanism (SSM) in Europe could provoke an over-simplification of prudential regulation in the region, an Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme) advisor and non-executive director has warned. The SSM mechanism transfers responsibility for approximately 130 of the biggest European-based banks from eurozone national authorities to the European Central Bank (ECB). The Bank will also be responsible for the overall oversight of prudential supervision in the eurozone.

The $24.9 billion leveraged buyout (LBO) of the US IT company Dell, by its founder Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake Management, completed in September following months of negotiations.