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Frank Sun, Kirkland & Ellis BAKER & MCKENZIE made a significant hire within its Greater China practice last month with the addition of Lance Chen who will head up the US Security Practice Group in Hong Kong and China. Chen had been at ICBC International Capital before rejoining the firm he had worked at between 2000-2004. Elsewhere, KIRKLAND & ELLIS looked to fellow US firm Paul Weiss to bolster its M&A team in Hong Kong, hiring partner Frank Sun who has experience in both M&A and private equity. Sun had previously worked at Kirkland as an associate between 2007-8.

China’s OTC equities markets are kicking off. A selling point is that they will help clear a PE exit gridlock, but more development is needed before they’re an option

The first Iraq Stock Exchange listing since 2003 is expected to transform the frontier exchange

Dr Daniel Staehelin is president of INSOL Europe, a pan-European professional association for restructuring and insolvency specialists. He works as an attorney and notary public at Kellerhals Anwälte Attorneys at Law and is an honorary professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He sat down with IFLR to share his thoughts on the state of cross-border insolvency proceedings in Europe

Four years after the financial crisis, restructuring and insolvency lawyers remain in high demand. This is not to say their jobs are any easier. On the contrary, proceedings are increasingly global and institutions ever more complex.

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

Gordon Stewart is president of INSOL International (2011-2013), and a partner and head of the global restructuring group at Allen & Overy in London. He has also served as INSOL vice-president, sat on its board, and acted as the first lawyer president of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3).

Alexander Vogel, Wolfgang Muller and Debora Durrer-Kern of Meyerlustenberger Lachenal explore the restructuring options available to Swiss companies in times of difficulty

Conservative attitudes and inadequate staffing of credit rating agencies is crippling the recovery of European securitisation, in-house counsel have said.

Anita Krizmanic, Ivana Manovelo and Jelena Zjacic of Macesic & Partners explore Croatia’s evolving framework for dealing with struggling companies