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Who took home what from IFLR’s expanded 2013 awards ceremony

How to use Europe’s first model block transaction agreements, and how they will benefit the market

There was a time when the heady combination of economic liberalisation and technology seemed fated to drive ever-increasing volumes of goods, capital and people across borders. Global cross-border capital flows, for example – including lending, foreign direct investment, and equity and bond purchases – rose from $0.5 trillion in 1980 to a peak of $11.8 trillion in 2007, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.

It is hard not to wonder if Standard & Poor's (S&P) has been gloating through the latest US debt ceiling fiasco.

The Korea Financial Services Commission's (FSC) recent launch of a stock exchange focused on raising capital for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could show EU policymakers how they can spur the bloc's return to growth.

One of Europe's senior political figures has said that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will not provide the region with the major funding required to return it to growth.

Isil Ökten Tolga Çabakli Debt assumption mechanisms constitute one of the major issues for lenders in public-private partnership (PPP) projects, and have been recently revisited by the Turkish Parliament to ensure certainty, clarity and sustainability in this respect. In March 2013, Act 4749 on Public Finance and Debt Management (the Public Finance Act) has been amended by Law 6428. The new article (8/A) of the Public Finance Act enables a treasury debt assumption mechanism for certain PPP projects on the following conditions:

What to expect from the Chinese government’s latest foreign investment and trade strategy

Bruno Marchese Peruvian regulations (Law 27287) allow for the issuance and acceptance of incomplete promissory notes as instruments representing payment obligations. The Law allows for such notes to be issued without having to set forth a specific payment date, or the actual amount payable under the note, and other stipulations that are typically included in notes and similar payment documents, but may be left blank in these incomplete promissory notes. The items left blank in the note will have to be completed by the creditor, upon the occurrence of certain events.

IFLR1000’s 2014 rankings identify the law firms shaping Asia and Africa’s most exciting project finance markets