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With the US forecasted to overtake rivals Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world's leading oil producer by 2017 – and continued US dominance of worldwide natural gas production – lawyers expect furious battles on the sector's regulation in 2013.

Law firms throughout the US rang in the new year with a surge of lateral hires. In the always-bustling area of white collar criminal investigations and enforcement, CROWELL & MORING's New York office welcomed former senior assistant US attorney for the southern district of New York, Glen G McGorty. GREENBERG TRAURIG gained former DLA Piper lawyer Carolyn F McNiven as a San Francisco-based shareholder with a concentration on white-collar defence matters. Former federal prosecutor Greg Deis rejoined MAYER BROWN in Chicago. He had served the firm for four years as an associate before becoming an assistant US attorney in the northern district of Illinois in 2007.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) 'Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program: Fiscal Year 2012' reveals a programme that is still grappling with many difficulties, lawyers have said.

The China/Canada investment landscape becomes more intertwined

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released its revised Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) requirements on January 6. It included some significant changes, which were to be expected given that its original December 2009 initial framework document was the first time that an internationally applicable, quantitative regulatory requirement for liquidity had been proposed.

Asia’s debt capital markets have long lived in the shadow of the region’s buoyant listing markets. Not for much longer

After flooding regulators with comment letters, the market was hoping for a more flexible Volcker Rule. All indications suggest that will not be the case

If the pessimists are to be believed, modern science has failed us. Yes, it has delivered smartphones and supercomputers, but according to a growing band of US academics and economists, that's not quite good enough. Seemingly, until our generation produces something as useful, and transformative, as modern sanitation or transportation, we have an innovation problem. And the implications of that are massive.

This year, clearing houses will look to comingle options contracts in an attempt to use margin offsets to lower Dodd-Frank compliance costs – for themselves and swaps traders

HK’s new sponsor rules could lock up funding as well as sponsors That Hong Kong wants to protect the reputations of its H-share and A-share companies is understandable – particularly following the issues that have troubled US-listed ChinaCos. But while listing location is rarely chosen on the basis of a regulator's vetting process, Hong Kong's new sponsor regulations may have made initial public offerings (IPOs) prohibitively expensive. Hong Kong's sponsor regulations have left small firms with few options. The rules might have noble underpinnings, but their provisions are heavy-handed. The risk sponsors take means that we are likely to see far fewer small IPOs getting done in Hong Kong.