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Investors may have been buoyed by a ruling that creates new liabilities for rating agencies. Herbert Smith Freehills' Harry Edwards explains why litigation in EU courts could have a very different outcome

Corporate inversions out of the US continue to gather pace. Arthur Cox's Maura McLaughlin and Conor Hurley explain what a company must consider when choosing a transaction structure

Orrick’s Raul Ricozzi and Francesca Isgrò explain what must change before investors and sponsors can gain the benefit of project bond technology

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's Richard Cooper, Adam Brenneman and Jessica McBride analyse the new statute and explain why lawmakers have not overcome their scepticism of in-court reorganisations

Issuers in unregistered securities offerings deserve the benefit of an auditor’s comfort letter. Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft partner David Neuville explains why counsel should start pressing the point

The news that London has finally issued its maiden sukuk has everyone excited that Islamic finance could become a viable option for corporates in the western world. However, alongside the jubilation comes another round of inevitable discussions about competition between finance centres vying to gain the biggest slice of the lucrative shariah market.

Deal counsel explain why the funding of a railway and highway across the Bosphorus gives Turkish project finance cause for optimism

Thomas Sando One of the changes to the Norwegian Competition Act (the Act) that entered into force on January 1 2014 was the amendments to the leniency scheme available for cartel participants considering blowing the whistle to the Norwegian Competition Authority (the NCA). Under the previous scheme, the conditions for obtaining leniency were hidden in the Leniency Regulation. From January 1, the conditions are included in the new sections 30 and 31 of the Act, dealing with complete and partial leniency respectively. Besides the relocation of the conditions for obtaining leniency, the amended scheme introduces a marker system in line with the system in the EU. This is an improvement, as it will be possible for leniency applicants to initially bring only limited information, yet receive leniency rights from the time of the initial application.

Jeff Bullwinkel, Microsoft's director of legal for the Asia Pacific, explains why a complance benchmark would help assure firms that they can adopt the cloud without flouting the region’s maze of regulations

Linklaters' Michael Bott and Ryan Ayrton analyse the new clauses that are helping bank syndicates navigate sanctions' impact complex financial instruments