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Directors of Cayman Island targets have an array of duties when facing a bid. Here are the pitfalls

"It's tremendously important that we are wide-awake to the potentially adverse, unintended consequences of interest rates being where they are," the Bank of England's head of financial stability Andrew Haldane told IFLR this month, in an exclusive online-only video series. "We need to be super vigilant that markets don't get ahead of themselves, don't become too bubbly."

Six months on, it’s time to see how the market is dealing with the repeal of a prohibition on financial assistance for Dutch BVs

Beijing-based lawyers debate the impact of government policy on independent and reliable legal advice

China has struggled to curb the growth of off-balance-sheet businesses. Here’s how wealth management plans have slipped through the regulatory cracks

The debut listing of German chemicals producer Evonik on the Frankfurt and Luxembourg stock exchanges used an unconventional quick-to-market structure. The alternate initial public offering (IPO) sets a so-called almost-safe model for other large European corporates to follow.

Differences between US and European finance documentation come to the fore in transatlantic deals. Here are the key distinctions on voting matters

The project to introduce a single supervisor for Europe's systemically important banks is nearing completion, bringing Europe one step closer to a full banking union. But the details of how the union will work are still unclear.

Timothy Langenkamp, Sidley Austin Trey Monsour, K&L Gates George Davis, O’Melveny & Myers Even by the standards of Houston's breakneck-paced, rough-and-tumble legal market, this spring has shaped up to be a busy one. As April moved into May, K&L GATES announced that it had lured Anthony Newton from Haynes and Boone to its office in Houston, where Newton will apply his knowledge of M&A, refinancings, private equity deals, and tax matters on behalf of oil and gas drillers and other corporate clients. Newton's hire came just days after K&L GATES announced the addition of Bruce Blefeld from Jackson Walker and Trey Monsour from Haynes and Boone as partners in its antitrust and restructuring practices respectively. PAUL HASTINGS hired corporate and securities lawyer Gislar Donnenberg as a partner in its Houston bureau. Donnenberg possesses special expertise in master limited partnerships (MLPs), a form of publicly traded partnership enjoying a surge of interest from both retail and institutional investors.

A recent Bank of England report set out the case for clearinghouses to have a well-mapped plan for how they will assign losses to members, in the event of a default that burns through the company's emergency funds. Central counterparties (CCPs) must closely consider their options when designing these rules, each of which has its own unique considerations.