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COVER STORY

Introduction to the UK Bribery Act

FEATURES

M&A in the mining sector

Fukushima: What follows for the nuclear industry?

ROUNDTABLE

Transfer pricing

THE PANELLISTS: Richard G Fletcher, Baker & McKenzie LLP; Ajit R. Tolani, Economic Laws Practice; Nathaniel Carden, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Paulo Marcelo de Oliveira Bento, Souza Cescon Barrieu & Flesch Advogados; Les Secular, True Partners Consulting (UK) LLP; and James Tng, UHY Haines Norton (WA) Pty Ltd.

WORLDWATCH

Global mergers & acquisitions

Companies struggle to deliver projected M&A synergies

Rick van Dommelen and Ahsan Ali, PwC

M&A: addressing corruption risks at target companies

Michael George DeSombre, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Acquisitions of Brazilian private higher education institutions: a hot deal

Rodrigo Millar de Castro Guerra and Luciane Fischmann, Lobo & de Rizzo Advogados

Governance aspects when selling a disentangled business 

Rick van Dommelen, Pieter Veuger and Casper Scheffer, PwC

Indian M&A market: the new high

Manjula Chawla and Ritika Ganju, Phoenix Legal

Extraterritorial application of merger control requirements under Russian law on protection of competition

Natalya Morozova, Vinson & Elkins

Middle market M&A: data room usage indicates uptick in activity

Joel Lessem, Firmex

DEALfront

mergers & acquisitions

J&J to buy device maker Synthes for over $21bn

Rio Tinto secures ownership of Riversdale Mining

private equity & venture capital 

Allocations to emerging market PE funds to increase

Outlook for the PE secondary market

bankruptcy & corporate restructuring

Saab rescued by Pang Da Automobile

Tough times for Nokia

INdepth

Opportunities and challenges in the food & beverage sector

PROFESSIONALinsight

Insolvency and restructuring

Time to fix the business, not just the balance sheet

Alan Tilley, Bryan Mansell & Tilley LLP

Credit risk management – lessons learnt from the recession

Nick Hood, Company Watch

Real estate receiverships: when should a lender use this approach?

Juanita Schwartzkopf, Focus Management Group

Litigation and dispute resolution

Ten features of successful mediation in commercial disputes

Matthew Vafidis, Holland & Knight LLP

Managing the evolving risks of lawyer-driven litigation

Philip Robben, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Negotiating in Central and Eastern Europe

Charles Crawford, ADRG Ambassadors

LEGAL&regulatory

Capital markets

Current proposals to alter the rules governing capital raises in the US

Bruce C. Bennett, Frederick J. Knecht and Peter Laveran-Stiebar, Covington & Burling LLP

Sino/US backdoor listings: class action mania

Keith M Brandt, Brandt Chan & Partners

Changes in the Brazilian public offering system enable faster fund raising

Ana Carolina de Salles Freire and Marta Viegas, TozziniFreire Advogados

CONTRIBUTORS

ADRG Ambassadors

Baker & McKenzie LLP

Brandt Chan & Partners

Bryan Mansell & Tilley LLP

Company Watch

Covington & Burling LLP

Economic Laws Practice

Firmex

Focus Management Group

Holland & Knight LLP

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Lobo & de Rizzo Advogados

Phoenix Legal

PwC

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Souza Cescon Barrieu & Flesch Advogados

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

TozziniFreire Advogados

True Partners Consulting (UK) LLP

UHY Haines Norton (WA) Pty Ltd.

Vinson & Elkins