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ETMFs open the door to fancier baskets The success of investment management firm Eaton Vance's exchange traded mutual funds (ETMF) could lead to new US products that also attempt to mirror more than one fund type. ETMFs combine the intraday trading ability of an exchange traded fund (ETF) with net asset value (NAV) pricing used in mutual funds. This offers actively-managed ETFs a way to protect their proprietary indexes.

Deal-hungry operators think Europe has too many

The combination of telecommunication companies Oi and PT has taught Brazilian investors the downside of public M&A. A more thorough review of disclosures is likely to occur in future deals.

House of Representatives Democrat Elijah Cummings has told IFLR why he wants US banks to explain how they will benefit from the roll-back of swaps regulations in Dodd-Frank. The call from Cummings follows a letter he and US Senator Elizabeth Warren sent to banks on January 29, asking them to outline the scope of their swaps businesses, following a roll-back of the push-out rules, called section 630, released in December.

Last month Standard & Poor's (S&P) downgraded banks in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. Banks in Asia may be similarly affected.

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John Elliott Joseph Bauerschmidt The new year kicked off with a potential watershed moment in China's rapidly developing legal market. DENTONS and Chinese firm DACHENG LAW OFFICES sealed a deal that will see the two firms combining to form a new 6,500 lawyer outfit under a Swiss verein structure–a form of voluntary association which is a popular entry strategy for international firms into domestic markets. The merger will create the world's largest firm by headcount. On top of that, Dacheng then brought in a team of six equity partners from local firm Haworth & Lexon to strengthen its presence in Shanghai. In Australia corporate partner, John Elliott, joined rival global firm NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT in Sydney from independent Clayton Utz. Norton Rose Fulbright was in the news again, relocating its Asia Pacific energy head, Vincent Dwyer, from Sydney to Singapore. Also in Singapore KING & WOOD MALLESONS has been granted a foreign law practice licence by the Attorney General's Chambers in Singapore. Its practice will focus on international funds, energy and resources, and China inbound-outbound work.

Indian equities are tipped to be among the best performers in 2015. Investors and issuers have outlined what will make that prediction a reality

Which country has the best onshore holding company regime?

Corporate counsel and their advisors shed light on everything from new private equity trends to crisis management and debt financing