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  • Foreign investors are now permitted to run companies themselves in a bid to attract investment and boost growth
  • Michael Denenga Colin Graham In Italy, FIELDFISHER has opened a new office in Bologna. The team will be led by corporate partner Gianvincenzo Lucchini and litigator Andrea Gattamorta. The new operation is the firm's fifth Italian office joining Milan, Rome, Venice and Turin.
  • The lighter side of the past month in the world of financial law
  • Regulators worldwide have increased their oversight, making engaging in AML activities not worth the cost. Banks need to wise to the rules if they want to comply properly
  • After a months-long clampdown on PRC corporates and their excessive outbound M&A transactions, Chinese authorities have shown they are determined to tackle the roots of such a shopping spree: the banks that have been extending loans to these M&A hungry companies.
  • CHARLES RUSSELL SPEECHLYS has opened an office in Hong Kong. The UK firm has established an association with a newly-formed Hong Kong firm set up by Jonathan Mok. The firm will focus on disputes and private wealth work. US firm MORGAN LEWIS & BOCKIUS is also reported to be in the last stages of completing its association with Hong Kong's Luk & Partners.
  • Brazil is late to the party when it comes to tackling corruption. But recent scandals involving a number of state-controlled companies have led authorities to implement the Clean Company Act, with the aim of enforcing better business practices. The Latam nation wants to change its corporate culture, but better business practices and transparency can't be built in a day
  • As mentioned in the first part of this article (published in the July/August 2017 issue), stakeholders in Colombian project financings are taking certain measures to mitigate risks derived from potential corruption cases. As part of those measures, lenders are giving special attention to improving contractual structures through more sophisticated anti-corruption clauses. This course of action is affecting not only financing documents in negotiation stages, but also some agreements already executed.
  • Recent legislation may have unified the country's insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, but the threshold for commencing the process could be a problem
  • Chinese authorities say relax (but not too much)