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Following months of a political vacuum at the top of South Korea's political chain, the world's 11th economy has elected a human rights lawyer-turned-politician candidate to head a country increasingly resentful towards the chaebol, or family-owned conglomerates. Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party of Korea, who served as chief of staff to the late president Roh Moo-hyun, has been widely touted as the first liberal president in South Korea after nine years of conservative rule.

First of many IRB InvIT’s IPO was the first in India to test Sebi’s guidelines on the classification of a trust

Much has been said about the results of Colombia's fight against corruption; from its 90th position (out of a total of 176 countries) ranking in the Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International, to recent scandals directly affecting major infrastructure projects. Set against this background of cultural issues and perception problems, the recent wave of cross-border corruption cases (for example, Odebrecht and Canal Isabel II) has served only to set the spotlight even more firmly on Colombia as a country with a historic reputation for corruption.

Banks in Cyprus have been given new tools to facilitate the reduction of non-performing facilities. These tools have been introduced through the enactment in April of Law 38(I) of 2017, which amends the Business of Credit Institutions Laws of 1997 to 2016, which regulate the activities of commercial banks.

While no single factor can explain the US IPO market’s recent bounce-back, it’s clear that government initiatives to support private companies have helped

The EU directive has disoriented the investment research market. Will it find the correct path forward?

Yes Cornerstones, which began in Hong Kong as a mechanism to attach prestigious names to new listings to generate interest and momentum, appear to have evolved into becoming security blankets to minimise the risk of failure, especially for deals launched in choppy waters.

Uzoma Azikiwe and Festus Onyia of UUBO review the Nigerian courts’ approach to foreign jurisdiction clauses in commercial contracts

Gönenç Gürkaynak and Öznur İnanılır of ELIG, Attorneys-at-Law assess the impact of recent changes made to Turkey’s competition law framework

Itır Sevim-Çiftçi and Kemal Aksel of Yegin Ciftci Attorney Partnership explore the main principles governing acquisitions in Turkey