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Four months after the final Volcker Rule was published, one question still looms large: will banks implement the proprietary trading ban globally, or will they try to make use of the loopholes.

High yield, securitisation and retail structured products are all emerging in Europe’s capital markets boom. Here are the challenges facing the instruments

Western Australia's Roy Hill iron ore project marks an important step forward for limited recourse financing for mining projects.

Sheela Moorthy, Norton Rose Fulbright Tony Harrington, Minter Ellison One of last month's biggest moves saw Vinson & Elkins' former China co-head and energy partner David Blumental join LATHAM & WATKINS. Blumental made the move just six months after the US energy firm ended its operations in Shanghai. In Beijing, K&L GATES hired corporate partner Frank Voon from Allen & Overy. Voon is experienced in cross-border M&A, corporate reorganisations and joint ventures.

Lawton Camp, Kaye Scholer Vivek Bhatt, K&L Gates The region's fervent lateral hiring of early March carried straight through into April. Offshore firm WALKERS gained Jason Allison as a partner in the global investment funds group in its Grand Cayman office. Allison, who previously worked in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and with Maples and Calder in the Caymans, advises banks, companies and fund managers on Cayman Islands corporate transactional and investment funds laws and regulations. In Canada, MCMILLAN welcomed Kip Daechsel, former national co-managing partner of the now-defunct law firm Heenan Blaikie, as a partner in Toronto. Daechsel's expertise covers both M&A and financial regulatory matters. At the time of his hiring at the end of March, Daechsel was the eighth Heenan Blaikie refugee to join McMillan in recent weeks.

Recent bankruptcy developments demonstrate why foreign creditors should be aware of the peculiarities of the country’s legal landscape

The European Market Infrastructure Regulation is causing confusion around the question of which instruments and agreements the new framework is designed to capture

Two Italian banks have signed a deal with KKR and Alvarez & Marsal to pool troubled loans in a move that could prompt further private equity involvement in Europe’s stricken lenders

Revised legislation in sub-Saharan Africa that is set to transform private equity investment in the area will become effective next week

The acquisition by Men’s Wearhouse of Jos A. Bank succeeded because of the aggressive stances taken by the two companies and their mutual activist investor