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Catherine Tsang The new year marked a new start for a number of lawyers in Hong Kong. MAYER BROWN JSM, looking to build on its recent association with PRC firm Jingtian & Gongcheng, added a new partner in the special administrative region. Nicholas Chan – an expert on Hong Kong's IPO market – joined from Sidley Austin where he was a partner in its corporate finance group. WHITE & CASE also hired in Hong Kong, adding partner Catherine Tsang from Paul Hastings to strengthen its corporate and capital markets capabilities. ASHURST brought in partner Joshua Cole from King & Wood Mallesons to focus on Asian M&A; and UK firm INCE & CO added Balbir Bindra from CEC North Star Energy to reinforce its Asia transactional practice. Also in Hong Kong, OLSWANG established a non-exclusive association with local firm HALDANES to expand its media advisory, regulatory and transactional expertise.

The UK's new mandatory disclosure rules for unlisted companies are at best another compliance hoop to jump through. But at their worst, they could be a deterrent to investment.

Olivier Vermeulen Gabrielle Wong Benjamin Büttner It has been a turbulent 12 months for the Baltics, and on January 1 there was yet another twist in the legal sector's tale. The remaining lawyers from Borenius – following the departure of a team of 13 in Lithuania to Sorainen in September – across all three countries broke their ties with the Helsinki-based firm and joined together with Cobalt. This created the largest Baltic firm by headcount – around 180 lawyers – and severed the final formal tie between a Nordic firm and the Baltics.

This year’s hostile tactics look a lot less aggressive than in 2015 Hostile takeovers could rise in 2016, as last year's mega deals are replaced by smaller consolidations and activist shareholders continuing to push boards into action.

Pedro Cortés Calvin Chui Even as 2015 was winding down and coming to an end, the government of the Macau Special Administrative Region was busy putting together a robust draft law to amend various aspects of the legal framework for lease agreements. At present, the rules set out in the Macau Civil Code (1999) govern lease agreements.

The EU's fragmented insolvency rules have many critics. But there's little consensus on whether the goal should be a single market, minimum standards, or something in between

Struggling debtors have been testing the countries' new restructuring regimes. Paul Hastings’ Joy Gallup explains how debtor-in-possession funding is their favoured tool

When the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia announced last month that selling shares in state-owned oil giant Aramco was being considered, the business media went into overdrive. And rightly so; total value estimates being mentioned in the press range from $1 trillion to $10 trillion.

Randall Barquero León In July 2015, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (the OECD) formally established the path for Costa Rica's accession. The process started in 2013 when the OECD stated that it would consider applications for Colombia and Costa Rica's entry. This was the first time the OECD had announced an expansion since 2007. If admitted, Colombia and Costa Rica would become the third and fourth Latin American members of the OECD, after Chile and Mexico. This has been considered both a vote of confidence for Costa Rica but also a challenge to its capacity to adapt to meet the organisation's standards. These standards include financial regulations.

Bassam Moussa In 1971, three teachers who had pooled $1,350 to start a coffee shop in Seattle needed additional capital to keep their business running. They ended up borrowing $5,000 from a bank. The start-up that they originally named Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spice was able to get the financing it needed to grow and expand, eventually becoming the Fortune 500 company we now know as Starbucks.