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Hew Kian Heong Michelle Li In China, Herbert Smith Freehills hired three new projects partners from Pinsent Masons. This closely followed the ending of the alliance between Pinsents and Chinese firm Hesen Law Firm.

Ireland is the latest sovereign to successfully launch a zero-coupon bond in the market, with reports pointing to demand 2.5x oversubscribed for the five-year notes.

Increased tax transparency obligations on private companies may actually make it easier to be IPO ready

As far back as 1987, through the 2008 financial crisis and on to this very month, the concept of integrating the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) has been an ongoing discussion that has neither gained steam nor gone away. The US is unusual in having a financial regulatory system that has evolved organically, and equally unusual it has distinct agencies that regulate the securities and derivatives spaces.

China is burying itself under a mountain of debt

According to reports, Houston-based Andrews Kurth Kenyon and Virginia-based Hunton & Williams are discussing merging practices.

The market is pondering what life after the benchmark will look like, including possible replacements and the impact on future and updated bond programmes

As these loans become ever more popular in Europe, capital providers need enhanced creditor protections to manage any potential downside

Updating the legal framework in Central America will help guarantee data confidentiality. But in order for companies to face growing vulnerabilities and risks, any internal policies or regulations that they establish must be complemented with appropriate technology. In El Salvador and the rest of the region, companies are rethinking their security strategies, including controls, policies, work regulations and internal processes. These new security measures are driven by the evolution of technology, IT security incidents and industry growth.

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are now the focus of both the public's and the regulator's attention. ICOs are a digitalised method of raising capital in which an organisation issues tradable digital units (tokens) to finance a specific project or to develop it further. They are exclusively used to fund early stage projects of startups, often without a clear track record and with unclear success probability. In the course of the offering, the investor receives a token from the issuing organisation in exchange for cryptocurrencies (for example, bitcoin) or standard currencies (also referred to as fiat money). Tokens are created on a blockchain and exist as tradable digital units on distributed ledgers as a part of a protocol. For example, the Ethereum blockchain provides not only the cryptocurrency Ether, but also a platform to write smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, which makes it possible for market participants to easily generate and issue their own tokens, mostly on the basis of the ERC-20 token standard.