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Benedikt Maurenbrecher, Daniel Haeberli and Urs Meier of Homburger look at Swiss regulatory breakthroughs for initial coin offerings and other fintech structures

The EU has created a new rank of bank creditors to help banks comply with the resolution requirements at a more favourable cost while improving the protection of depositors

The EU’s landmark directive changes the regime applicable to French financial investment advisors

There are very few people who are willing to discuss the pending mega merger between American publically traded agro biotech company Monsanto, and the German megalithic life science and pharma company Bayer. The deal is worth a reported $66 billion and has unsurprisingly piqued the interest of antitrust agencies across the world.

The landmark EU regulation is expected to impact businesses in the region. But they also need to comply with myriad of local rules

The attachment of a debtor's assets is a very convenient tool for securing the recovery of an outstanding claim. Besides conventional assets, such as bank accounts or real estate, the creditor may also consider attaching more exotic items owned by the debtor: luxury cars, artworks or, why not, a private jet. We set out below the key requirements and certain practical aspects to consider when seeking the attachment of an aircraft located in Switzerland.

The existing labour shortage is providing fertile ground for the establishment of new unions, or the strengthening of the position of existing ones, and many employers find themselves facing this prospect. The establishment of a trade union is a relatively simple process which, when combined with the prevailing situation in the job market, has contributed to the fact that trade unions are cropping up around Slovakia often only as a form of bullying employers. Increasingly we are encountering cases where the persons who establish these unions do not even actually work for the particular employer where the union is being formed. These people select companies based mainly on their economic performance and then send out mass mailings to employers informing them that a union has been established in their workplace, often stating unreasonable and even absurd demands. They have no knowledge of the conditions at play at any employer, and only afterwards do they try to recruit the workers as members of the union. There has not yet been established a cohesive and effective form of defence against these practices.

Korea has no laws and regulations which are specifically apply to cryptocurrencies. The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) and other Korean regulatory bodies have issued a number of press releases on basic government policies regarding, among other things, initial coin offerings (ICOs), cryptocurrency exchanges, and Ponzi schemes and other fraudulent activities involving bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

One component of the EU's Capital Markets Union project is to ensure that securitisations are carried out in a transparent and risk-reflective manner, and that they are of high quality. As with many other financial instruments, this more cautious approach is a direct reaction to practices that were brought to light by the financial crisis.

Sfera Legal, based in Costa Rica, has continued its regional expansion with the launch of Sfera Legal El Salvador and Sfera Legal Nicaragua. The firm is now present in four central American countries.