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Akin Gump's Christopher Leonard asks whether regulations should be extended to cover shared-ledger technology, or whether a new, bespoke regime is a better option

When creating cross-border collateral arrangements, managing teams and reconciling legal regimes is half the challenge. Here, Mayer Brown lawyers explain why

The proposed guidelines on implicit support for securitisation provide useful focus, but they should be more limited in scope

Like most jurisdictions in the Middle East and North Africa, Qatar has adopted the civil law system

Rafiq Jaffer, Al Tamimi & Company

Debevoise & Plimpton's Alan Davies, Pierre Maugüé and Gregg Young explain the importance of a detailed understanding of the events that can result in a draw stop

Prager Dreifuss’s Andreas Moll and Matthias Bürge on why new transparency rules for Swiss companies could signal the end of the anonymous bearer share

Allen & Overy's Paul Péporté explains why the country’s fiduciary regime offers an efficient solution for funds looking to tap Europe's loan market

Egypt is de facto a socialist country. Despite the removal of references to the terms ‘socialism’ and ‘socialist’ from the 1971 constitution in its 2007 amendments and the absence of these terms in the current 2014 constitution, the laws still adopt the concept