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Economic turbulence does not affect sanitation as much as it does other infrastructure industries. Demand is inflexible, revenue stream is predictable and services are monopolistic by nature, which is not the case with other industries – transportation, for example, is more permeable to economic downturns.

Björn-Axel Dißars David Young A team of six lawyers left Osborne Clarke's German practice to launch a Cologne-based boutique specialising in procurement law, ESCH BAHNER LISCH. The team included partners Oliver Esch and Karsten Lisch, and counsel Hanna Bahner.

They are entering the mainstream and getting investors excited, but are deal makers and their lawyers ready?

The best female legal practitioners in the Americas celebrated at the JW Marriott Essex House in New York on June 8 at the sixth annual Euromoney Women in Business Law awards.

Closing M&A deals is getting harder as protectionism and antitrust oversight grows. Voluntary filings and building regulatory rapport may be the solution

Back to basics Europe’s first insurance premium loan securitisation

In the middle of the most ambitious infrastructure programme in history of Colombia (4G) emerged the deepest ever corruption scandal in the region. The Odebrecht crisis forced all stakeholders to revisit their internal policies and work out together a solution to mitigate the risks that have subsequently materialised in certain projects across Latin America.

Following up on an article published last year in IFLR by Consortium Legal – Honduras regarding anti-money laundering (AML) legislation, on June 6 2017 the National Banking and Insurance Commission (CNBS) issued the Regulation on the Registration of Non-Financial Professions and Activities (Regulation). Beginning June 15 2017, attorneys, accountants, and various non-financial businesses, including but not limited to car dealerships, casinos, jewellery retail shops, real estate companies, and companies that grant loans without performing financial intermediation, will have to register with the AML registry for non-financial professions and activities of the CNBS.

On January 1 2017, the Swiss domestic legislation on the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) entered into force and the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (SFTA) published guidelines specifying the crucial aspects of the legislation for practical use. Under the AEOI, Swiss financial institutions (FI) will collect and exchange relevant financial information on 'reported persons' with Switzerland's partner states. By the same token, Switzerland will receive data collected on Swiss resident reported persons from Switzerland's partner states. The exchanged information will be used for domestic taxation purposes in the state of residence of the reported persons.

The FMSB chairman explains how to bridge the gap between principles and granularity in the post-crisis environment