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More than a year after a Jakarta court ruled a loan agreement void because it was not translated into Bahasa Indonesia, lawyers are still uncertain about local language translation requirements

The nominations for this year's Asia Wibl awards have been announced

James Douglas, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer A high volume of lateral moves took place as the summer drew to a close. WEIL GOTSHAL & MANGES, a firm plagued by defections in recent months, gained an experienced partner in early September in the form of Damian Ridealgh from Ashurst in New York. The M&A and corporate finance partner has a strong background in the UK's financial markets, having worked in London before his move to New York in 2003. HOGAN LOVELLS bolstered its finance practice in New York with the hiring of Lewis Cohen as a partner. Cohen, previously a partner at Clifford Chance, specialises in capital markets transactions. In yet another hire in the banking and finance area, MCGUIREWOODS gained Kay McNab, a Chicago-based partner with Winston & Strawn. McNab advises underwriters and placement agents in domestic and cross-border secured and unsecured loan transactions and has extensive experience working with venture capital firms.

A ruling in MPM Silicones' Chapter 11 proceedings could be detrimental to the amount secured lenders in future reorganisations can expect to be repaid.

RBI has, once again, changed its mind on temporary write-downs The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s amendments to its Basel III guidelines buck global trends on write-downs and on retail investors participating in the regulatory capital market. The amendments, notified on September 1, included several surprising elements. They reintroduce temporary write-downs to the market – after a previous notification said that they would no longer be permitted – and now permit retail investors to buy Basel III-compliant bonds.

Investors that own a quantity of stock below its index weight may a pose greater and more immediate threat to companies than growing activism or short sellers, one of the OECD's independent advisers has warned. Underweight shareholders, as they are known, may own a large voting stake in a company like activists, but like a short seller they are hoping for a fall in the stock's value. This, in turn, allows them to raise their performance against a benchmark.

There’s just not enough to satisfy regulators

The financing of a biomass facility in Scotland has paved the way for greenfield renewable projects to tap the UK capital markets.

Boards may get more power to thwart takeover bids if a proposal by the country’s securities administrator is adopted next year. Notice of the proposal was released on September 11, with the full version expected in early 2015

The region's new and established authorities are redoubling their efforts. Linklaters' Clara Ingen-Housz and Fay Zhou explain how to manage the risk of increased enforcement