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Guoqing Li, Mayer Brown JSM David Kidd, Linklaters Arguably the biggest news in Asia last month was the capture of restructuring and insolvency partner David Kidd by LINKLATERS in Hong Kong. Kidd joins from Allen & Overy and will head up the firm's pan-Asian restructuring offering. He has been in the region since 1998 and is regarded as one of Asia's highest profile restructuring lawyers. Elsewhere on the island, two notable moves in the investment funds space saw Gaven Cheong make the move from Sidley Austin to SIMMONS & SIMMONS, and Mark Cummings swapping Appleby for WALKERS.

Marcus Christian, Mayer Brown Pete Levitas, Arnold & Porter The final week of August saw Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton announce that Washington DC-based antitrust partner David Gelfand was leaving to become the deputy assistant attorney general in the antitrust division of the US Department of Justice (DoJ). Just one day prior, Canadian firm Torys announced that corporate and securities partner Bill Estey would be leaving the firm's Toronto office to take a new position as an advisor to the government of Liberia. He will assist the country's leaders with the drafting of laws subject to World Trade Organisation rules and standards.

The Financial Services Commission has recently issued special guidelines for professional directors, especially those sitting on multiple boards in the global business sphere. In addition to the fiduciary duties expected from directors, resident directors must demonstrate that they have sufficient time to prepare for and attend board meetings. Resident directors are also expected to have a reasonable number of directorships. Reasonableness will be judged on various factors including, but not limited to, the number of board meetings being held, categories of companies and staff supports available to the director.

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

Alexei Bonamin Marcus Vinicius Fonseca On September 5 2013, the Brazilian National Monetary Council enacted Resolution 4,263, which finally regulated structured operations certificates (certificado de operações estruturadas) or COEs. Similar to a structured note, COEs are already used by banks in other countries, which allows the combination of different investment structures, such as fixed-income and variable-income, in one instrument. The COE was created in 2010 together with financial bills (letras financeiras) by the Provisional Measure (Medida Provisória) of December 15 2009, (converted into Law 12,249 of June 11 2010), to be a fundraising alternative for banks established in Brazil.

Verizon Communications' $49 billion bond issuance was the largest corporate bond sale in history. Here's how it could influence future corporate bond offerings from other well-established companies

With registration deadline for platforms meeting the SEF definition is now just a matter of weeks away. This article updates an earlier article on cross-border swaps regulation for would-be SEF registrants

The nominations for the Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2013 have been announced

While Japan’s Basel III capital adequacy framework is largely compliant with global guidelines, its government could remain dedicated to providing support to troubled and systemically important domestic banks

Wesfarmers and Bunnings’ innovative sale-and-leaseback transaction was the first of its kind in Australia