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The success of China’s highly anticipated foreign investment law has been overshadowed

In Chile, Clyde & Co launched an office after forming an association with Grasty Quintana Majlis.

In cross-border acquisition financing, it is common practice that so-called 'security principles' are negotiated and defined in an annex to the facilities agreement. On the one hand, it is specifically held in these security principles what security will be granted by the obligors and the target group to the finance parties; and on the other hand, it also generally describes circumstances under which an exception to the obligation to provide certain security can occur. The security principles provide guidance to the lawyers involved in different jurisdictions whose task it is to translate these principles into specific security documents.

Panama and the UK have shared diplomatic ties since 1908. The US brought the highest amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Panama in 2018, with the UK coming in eighth position in the FDI stakes. The 2015 FDI figures saw the UK in fourth spot after the US, Colombia and Switzerland (with a total of 6% of FDI into Panama).

Britain's flag has finally been removed from the EU and the implementation period has begun – with the two remaining aligned at least until the end of the year. In this time, greenfield thinking is desperately needed as, at present, whatever happens next in the negotiations is anyone's guess. Even those who are doing the actual negotiating are not that enlightened on what the future might hold for the relationship.

US legislation is unclear on the issue, resulting in surprising outcomes in government enforcement efforts

In the Baltics, the Levin law firm alliance secured a replacement for its former Lithuania member, Dominas Levin, which merged with Walless last year. Local firm Wint combined with Glikman Akin Levin and Latvia's Kronbergs Cukste Levin to reestablish a pan-Baltic alliance.

In late December, 2019, a new and consequential step toward fiscal transparency and accountability on par with international standards was decisively taken by the Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region with the approval of Law No. 21/2019, a revision of the Complementary Tax Law.

In-house counsel, industry groups and private practice lawyers are unanimous in their view that the promoter concept is losing relevance and needs to change to encourage Indian companies to go public

Lawyers who worked on Barbados’ recent debt restructuring explain how it came together, including an analysis of the innovative natural disaster clause