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Debevoise & Plimpton lawyers explain what borrowers need to know in today’s political environment

The executive branch of the Panamanian government has presented a Bill to the Legislative Assembly for the formal creation of a public-private partnership (PPP) regime in Panama. The Bill was approved in the first of three debates required within the Legislative Assembly for its final approval.

A poll of blue-chip executives shows companies are becoming increasingly aware of the threats inherent to M&A

Local regulators are displaying enviable steadfastness in relation to cryptocurrency regulation, according to Peter Reeves, Georgina Willcock and Emily Shen of Gilbert + Tobin

Green bonds are now in the mainstream. But the lack of contractual protections risk undermining the market and the broader sustainable finance project, as Baker McKenzie lawyers explain in this long read

Al Tamimi’s head of debt capital markets provides a rundown of typical Islamic financial products, from project sukuk to securitisation

Latham & Watkins lawyers take a deep dive into US trends to unpick the patchwork efforts to regulate tokens, blockchains and cryptocurrencies and the businesses that deal in them

Like most financial engineering techniques, securitisation is not without risk. The complexity inherent in securitisation can impair investors' ability to monitor risk, and competitive securitisation markets are prone to sharp declines in underwriting standards. Furthermore, off-balance sheet accounting treatment for securitisations coupled with guarantees from the issuer can make it challenging to assess exposures, encouraging issuers to take on excessive credit risk. Even the most ardent advocates of securitisation would accept that securitisation played an important role in the US subprime mortgage crisis that led to the global financial crisis of 2008.

A draft law amending some articles of the Law on Investment 2014 and the Law on Enterprises 2014 (the Business Laws) has been in the making since mid-2018. The draft law is scheduled to be presented to the National Assembly in its eighth meeting session for review and feedback. Following that, it will be further updated for promulgation in the National Assembly's ninth meeting session which will be held in mid-2020.