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Anup Koushik Karavadi Karan Talwar India, as an emerging economy, has hundreds of foreign companies being registered each year. Setting up business in India may be a complex process with its administrative and procedural compliances, but since the liberalisation policy in 1991, the government has time and again made changes, favourable for foreign investment and entry of foreign companies. One of the recent welcome developments is the enactment of the Companies Act, 2013, (the Act), which is more comprehensive than its predecessor, particularly with regard to the concept of a 'foreign company'. The said term is defined in section 2(42) to mean a company or corporate body incorporated outside India, and which has a place of business in India either by itself or through any agent, physically or through electronic mode, and which conducts any business activity in India in any other manner.

A court’s cramdown order on Grupo Celsa’s refinancing agreement has had a significant impact on Spain’s restructuring market

Investors are demanding safer structures now Singapore securitisation might be slowly making a comeback. But deals are far more conservative than those seen in previous years. The securitisation market in Asia has been slow to take off since the global financial crisis. Although Singapore commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) weren't heavily affected during the crisis, investors were sceptical of the product's safety following incidents in the US.

A recent judgment by Germany's Federal Supreme Court that makes it easier for public companies to delist is tipped to facilitate take-privates and spur new public takeover tactics.

Credit Suisse’s planned overhaul of its legal structure was not motivated by a desire to safeguard its Swiss operations, the bank’s vice chairman of the group executive office has said

The use of high-yield bonds to fund non-controlling buyouts is tipped to be a key development for the M&A market in 2014. The structure could be transformative for deals in Asia

Distressed assets in Spain’s real-estate sector have been luring investors for a long time, but buyers’ have been engaging new strategies recently

Recent disputes regarding Indian Apollo Tyres’ acquisition of US-listed Cooper Tire underscore why Asian corporates looking to the US must understand its deal protection mechanisms and court precedents

Covered bonds backed by loans to small and medium-sized enterprises will remain a niche product of established issuers from mature markets

Industry support for an EU-wide covered bonds framework has grown over the past 12 months, with investors and issuers agreeing that harmonisation would help safeguard the asset class’s preferential regulatory treatment