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It's no secret that the financial transaction tax (FTT) has not been the resounding success the European Commission (EC) had hoped for.

The lighter side of the past month in the world of financial law

The regulatory heads of Europe and the US’s private equity associations go head-to-head on the most pressing topics facing the industry today

Mats Sacklén, Baker &?McKenzie Jorge Bleck, Vieira de Almeida &?Associados The most prominent of London's moves last month saw JONES DAY capture Raymond McKeeve, Berwin Leighton Paisner's global head of private equity. McKeeve had reportedly also been in talks with another firm. SQUIRE SANDERS also secured a significant in the form of Addleshaw Goddard's head of structured finance Mark Thomas. Elsewhere in the City, KING & SPALDING expanded its London offering by establishing a financial services regulatory practice with the arrival of Mayer Brown partner Angela Hayes. US firm BRYAN CAVE brought transactional partner Dan Larkin on board from Dentons, while Stephenson Harwood lost financial and regulatory partner Charlotte Hill to COVINGTON & BURLING.

Jack Lange of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison assesses the effectiveness of recent guidance letters issued by the stock exchange on pre-IPO investments

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA) is recognised for having the key components for a strong DCM group; a large book and innovative strategies for tackling deals. While nearly anything will sell in an active market, prevailing conditions have required greater creativity on the part of banking teams.

Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) has become the first Asian company to restructure through a UK scheme of arrangement. It also represents the first time a UK court used its discretion to stay proceedings against a debtor so that a scheme could be put forward.

Bo Yong Ahn and Sung-Soo Choi of Kim & Chang explain the rapid growth of private equity funds in South Korea in recent years

In the face of growing intellectual property concerns and disputes, Rui Filipe Oliveira and João Nuno Riquito of Riquito Advogados outline the case for compulsory arbitration in patent litigation in Macau

The People's Republic of China (China) and the Macau Special Administrative Region of the PRC (Macau) signed, on October 17 2003, the Mainland and Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA). The purpose of this agreement, which is an FTA-like arrangement concluded between two separate customs territories of a single sovereign state, is to promote the joint economic prosperity and development of China and Macau, as well as to enhance the level of economic and trade cooperation between them. Moreover, CEPA is an open agreement, that is, its contents can be continuously deepened, enriched or amended, according to the economic needs of the two parties. In this regard, over the past decade, 10 supplements to CEPA have been signed, the last of which – Supplement X to CEPA – was signed on August 30 2013, and will come into effect on January 1 2014.