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Oene Marseille Emir Nurmansyah Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (the OJK) has recently issued OJK regulation number: 2/POJK.04/2013 on share buybacks issued by issuers or public companies in significantly fluctuating market conditions (the Regulation). The Regulation came into effect on August 23 2013. The relaxation of regulations is supposedly part of the recent support package put in place to aid the downward pressure on the Indonesian currency and downward adjustment in the Indonesian stock market. The Regulation aims to reduce the impact of a significantly fluctuating market and the resulting pressure on the domestic stock exchange, by giving flexibility to the issuer or public company (the Company) to conduct share buybacks without having to violate the prevailing laws and regulations.

Despite doubts over how progressive the new Turkish Commercial Code will be, Duygu Turgut and Orçun Solak of Esin Attorney Partnership suggest it is still a step forward for the reemerging economy

Christoph Neeracher, Raoul Stocker and Charles Gschwind of Bär & Karrer assess the impact of recent legal and market developments in Switzerland, and future prospects

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.

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

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

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

Gözde Kayacik Convertible bonds are a type of bond regulated under the Communiqué Regarding Debt Securities (II-31.1) published in the Official Gazette on June 7 2013, and numbered 28670. This bond has a hybrid nature, which is a combination of an ordinary bond and a warrant. It grants the holder the right to convert the bond into a number of shares in the issuer company either by means of capital increase (contribution), or by converting them into other issuer shares. According to the Communiqué:

Since 2006, Thailand has approved policies to promote the purchase of power from projects using renewable energy. The 2009 National Energy Policy Committee (NEPC) approved additional tariff adders for certain categories of alternative energy, including solar power.

The bond market will help fill Turkey’s project funding gap, but it’s no panacea Turkey's first infrastructure bond has opened another financing avenue for the country's high performing projects. The $450 million issuance by the operator of Mersin International Port included incurrence-based covenants, making it akin to a high-yield offering.