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Italy’s high yield bond rules aim to open the country’s debt markets. Here’s what prospective bondholders need to know about the new regime

The third public offering of Mexican real estate investment trust Fibra Uno has been widely reported as a transactional breakthrough with the potential to help the real estate investment trust (REIT) asset class attract new investors from around the world.

If there were a phrase to sum up market sentiment in 2013, 'cautious optimism' would be it.

Davis Polk & Wardwell won the Americas law firm of the year at the annual IFLR Americas awards ceremony held in New York last night - becoming the first to win the coveted award two years in a row

One risk that banks are now willing to take Corporates in the Asia-Pacific have traditionally used banks to finance acquisitions. With the implementation Basel III set to significantly curtail banks ability to lend, local counsel have outlined the alternative funding sources they expect to emerge in the region this year. Panelists at February's IFLR-IPBA M&A Forum predicted more innovative financing across the region this year, with leveraged buyouts (LBOs) expected in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

The EU's proposed financial transaction tax (FTT) would be so disruptive to securities markets that it could render some FTT zone trading desks uneconomic.

Susan Alker, Winston & Strawn James Stevens, Toutman Sanders Peter Birkness, McCarthy Tetrault Last month saw a balance of hiring activity on both US coasts. For COOLEY it was the Los Angeles office that was looking to expand, with a double addition to its corporate ranks from Sheppard Mullin. Both C Thomas Hopkins and Ian Smith joined the team, with Hopkins a particularly notable hire given his previous position as global head of corporate. Elsewhere in the City of Angels, VENABLE increased its corporate capacity with the addition of private equity partner Ronn Davids and corporate counsel Jennifer Cappelletty from Klee Tuchin Bogdanoff & Stern. Both lawyers focus on mid-market and emerging companies. WINSTON & STRAWN meanwhile enhanced its corporate finance team with the addition of Susan Alker from Reed Smith.

Chinese corporates have their eyes fixed on foreign targets. But this new phase of M&A comes with risks and challenges

Freddy Karyadi Oene Marseille The Government has recently issued several new Ministry of Finance (MoF) regulations (PMK) relating to general tax provisions, in order to improve the implementation of Government Regulation 74/2011 (PP-74), which is the main implementing regulation of the General Tax Provisions and Procedures Law (KUP Law). The MoF seems to want to streamline the prevailing regulations by putting as much content as possible in the PMKs to minimise the issuance of lower-ranked tax regulations. The tax audit is one of the new MoF regulations which will be discussed below.

As US and UK exchanges loosen listing rules, Asia is cracking the regulatory whip to improve market integrity. Which is the best approach for long-term success?