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Falling commodity prices have prompted a number of restructurings in Australia. And creditors have developed a new mechanism to maximise value of distressed assets.

The central bank of Indonesia, Bank Indonesia (BI), has issued a new regulation requiring individuals and corporations to generally use rupiah in transactions in the territory of the Republic of Indonesia

Kuveyt Turk Bank is about to open a fully shariah-compliant branch in Germany. It will be the first fully-fledged Islamic bank in the country, despite it containing the second-largest Muslim population of EU member nations.

Most outbound Chinese investment is conducted through complex entities structured to protect onshore parties. Randall Arthur and Shaun Wu of Kobre & Kim explain how to enforce judgments

Nicaraguan Congress recently approved law 899, the Investment Companies Law, which was published in the official Gazette 76 (April 27 2015)

Victor Chen, Paul Hastings Grant Koch, DLA Piper In Hong Kong, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson – which has decided to pull out of Asia – lost corporate specialists Douglas Freeman and Victor Chen to PAUL HASTINGS, and disputes partner Alfred Wu to NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT. Elsewhere, Thomas Kollar joined the corporate and securities practice at MAYER BROWN JSM from Clifford Chance. On the mainland, SIDLEY AUSTIN brought in a new partner in New York to boost its Chinese M&A practice. Wenseng Pan joined the firm from O'Melveny & Myers where she was of counsel advising on cross-border transactions between US and China in the life science and technology sectors.

As Europe's financial regulatory onslaught approaches its end, attention is turning to market inefficiencies that have fallen by the wayside. These are the issues that receive very little press. Often because they are not contentious, and contrary to the post-crisis anti-regulator mindset, market overseers are not to blame.

China's interpretation of some international conventions as well as its broad state secrecy laws and regulations have constructed a type of firewall around its financial institutions. This has, essentially, rendered them nearly immune from the jurisdiction of other countries' courts and regulatory agencies. That may have short-term benefits – namely avoiding litigation in the US – but could ultimately harm their integration into the global financial system.

The Chinese government's economic retreat has undermined its implicit backstop of state-owned entities (SOE). Investors have emphasised the importance of credit research in the country.

Daniel Hasler of Homburger analyses and challenges the effectiveness of recent proposals to amend Swiss corporate law