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Mats Sacklén, Baker &?McKenzie Jorge Bleck, Vieira de Almeida &?Associados The most prominent of London's moves last month saw JONES DAY capture Raymond McKeeve, Berwin Leighton Paisner's global head of private equity. McKeeve had reportedly also been in talks with another firm. SQUIRE SANDERS also secured a significant in the form of Addleshaw Goddard's head of structured finance Mark Thomas. Elsewhere in the City, KING & SPALDING expanded its London offering by establishing a financial services regulatory practice with the arrival of Mayer Brown partner Angela Hayes. US firm BRYAN CAVE brought transactional partner Dan Larkin on board from Dentons, while Stephenson Harwood lost financial and regulatory partner Charlotte Hill to COVINGTON & BURLING.

Limited partners’ greater leverage will divide the market in two

Guoqing Li, Mayer Brown JSM David Kidd, Linklaters Arguably the biggest news in Asia last month was the capture of restructuring and insolvency partner David Kidd by LINKLATERS in Hong Kong. Kidd joins from Allen & Overy and will head up the firm's pan-Asian restructuring offering. He has been in the region since 1998 and is regarded as one of Asia's highest profile restructuring lawyers. Elsewhere on the island, two notable moves in the investment funds space saw Gaven Cheong make the move from Sidley Austin to SIMMONS & SIMMONS, and Mark Cummings swapping Appleby for WALKERS.

Marcus Christian, Mayer Brown Pete Levitas, Arnold & Porter The final week of August saw Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton announce that Washington DC-based antitrust partner David Gelfand was leaving to become the deputy assistant attorney general in the antitrust division of the US Department of Justice (DoJ). Just one day prior, Canadian firm Torys announced that corporate and securities partner Bill Estey would be leaving the firm's Toronto office to take a new position as an advisor to the government of Liberia. He will assist the country's leaders with the drafting of laws subject to World Trade Organisation rules and standards.

Julián J Garza and Héctor Arangua of Nader Hayaux & Goebel explore the new possibilities presented by Mexico’s evolving private equity industry

Bo Yong Ahn and Sung-Soo Choi of Kim & Chang explain the rapid growth of private equity funds in South Korea in recent years

Gareth Thomas and Priya Aswani of Herbert Smith Freehills offer a review of key cases and legal developments from the past year

Rarely does surprise and regulatory inaction end positively. And yet, the US Federal Reserve's revelation last month that it would not – as many had assumed – begin to taper the pace of its $85 billion a month quantitative easing (QE) programme, appeared to do just that.

Despite doubts over how progressive the new Turkish Commercial Code will be, Duygu Turgut and Orçun Solak of Esin Attorney Partnership suggest it is still a step forward for the reemerging economy

Lighthouse had to account for a similar transformation of its underlying collateral BNP Paribas has used a master trust structure to complete the first securitisation backed by commodity trade loans. The $132 million deal known as Lighthouse is the latest example of alternative funding sources being applied to assets traditionally financed by banks.