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The proliferation of the cryptocurrency is financial authorities’ next test

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 proposed initial public offering (IPO) of Chinese internet company Alibaba Group would be one of the year's biggest. But Hong Kong should not concede corporate governance principles to win the listing.

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

Lighthouse had to account for a similar transformation of its underlying collateral BNP Paribas has used a master trust structure to complete the first securitisation backed by commodity trade loans. The $132 million deal known as Lighthouse is the latest example of alternative funding sources being applied to assets traditionally financed by banks.

Investigations of alleged oil price manipulation highlight the challenges of overseeing cross-border oil price benchmarks. Michael A Yuffee, Daniel A Mullen and J Peter Ripley of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson explain why

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 market practice argument inevitably crops up in any M&A negotiation. But is it actually a useful standard?

A selective analysis of English and Luxembourg laws governing financial collateral arrangements shows how the quest for EU-wide common regime has fallen short

Financial services firms have much to gain from investment protections being discussed in the EU-US free trade negotiations