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The possibility that Scotland could have voted to leave the UK raised many difficult questions, not least of which was a constitutional crisis in the UK. But the ripple effects of a split would have spread throughout the EU.

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

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

Many have touted collective action clauses as the answer to future sovereign debt restructures. But Bazinas Law Firm's George Bazinas and Yiannis Sakkas believe that more fundamental legal doctrines offer a better solution

The bank’s latest RMBS deal sidesteps the collateral and cost associated with the usual swap solution