This is the only publication to explain, in one volume, the legislation on company formation in a wide range of key jurisdictions. Over 30 local experts from leading law firms compare the advantages of different types of limited liability company available in their jurisdiction. This book is essential reading for all lawyers who advise companies on setting up in a new jurisdiction and heads of business who are planning to expand their companies on to the global market.

Equity Derivatives: Documenting and Understanding Equity Derivative Products examines the full spectrum of equity derivative transactions. This accessible forthcoming title explains each type of transaction, together with the documentation involved. In particular, the book analyses and guides the reader through the full suite of OTC, exchange-traded and structured equity derivative documentation, and provides a detailed guide to the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions.

The book further contains detailed analysis of the regulatory issues affecting equity derivative products in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States, and covers tax issues arising in the United Kingdom and United States.

The book is an indispensible tool for lawyers, treasurers and derivatives specialists at corporates, financial institutions, hedge funds and pension schemes, and a valuable resource for students.

This new title features contributions by leading experts from 28 countries providing, in just one volume, the important legal and tax issues to be considered when operating employee share plans internationally. Companies need to consider various issues before extending their employee share plans in this way, including securities laws, tax and social security aspects (for both the employee and employer), the position of internationally mobile employees, reporting and withholding requirements, exchange control issues and employment and data protection laws. This major text will assist legal, tax and HR professionals in multi-national companies, and the private practice advisers working with them, in extending their employee share plans globally.

Featuring contributions from leading practitioners in the field, this title introduces the world of private equity, explains its rise and explores the key ingredients of private equity transactions and the technical issues associated with them. The book includes high-level analysis of private equity fund structures, equity and debt finance, acquisition documentation, due diligence, tax structuring and management, pensions and public to privates. This new title is essential reading for anybody interested in or working within the field of private equity.

Featuring contributions by leading experts in the field, including the Pension Corporation, Lucida, Hewitt Associates and Pitmans Trustees Limited, this timely new title covers topics such as the attractions of the current buy-out market, the non-insured buy-out option, the Financial Services Authority regulated market and the elimination of pension scheme liabilities, as well as an overview of the buy-out market in selected countries.

This book is aimed at a broad cross-section of the pension market and is intended to be of practical use to trustees, employers, advisers, administrators and other pension stakeholders in providing a comprehensive guide to how best to tackle the thorny issue of eliminating defined benefit scheme liabilities.

This accessible title features contributions from leading practitioners in their field on a range of topical issues, including alternative methods of funding deficit reduction, investment, employment considerations, the Pensions Regulator and the Pension Protection Fund, deficit reduction around the world and the emergence of an alternative buy-out market. Trustees, corporate officers and stakeholders, from chief financial officers and finance directors to pension managers, and the range of advisers – accounting, actuarial and legal – will find the book of interest and practical use.

This practical title features contributions by specialists in their fields on a range of topical subjects, including structuring liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, sale and purchase agreements, LNG trading, LNG shipping, finance and politics. Together the contributors provide a rare guide to the legal, regulatory, political and practical elements of the LNG chain. Whether you are a lawyer in private practice or from a national or international oil company, utilities business, shipbroking or shipbuilding firm, bank or energy advisory practice, this commercially focused new title will provide you with a holistic insight into the business of LNG.

This commercially focused title looks at each of the major sectors where Private Finance Initiative and public-private partnership (PPP) structures have been successfully applied over recent years.With contributions from leading practitioners in the field and featuring analysis of topical developments in key sectors, the book also features coverage of overarching issues such as the role of financing institutions, EU procurement and developments in the debt and equity financial markets relevant to PPP. If you need to know the latest techniques relevant to a particular sector in PPP, or if you want to understand how you might take answers developed in the United Kingdom and apply them to other jurisdictions, this book will be an invaluable tool in your research.

This title seeks to assist those who may be interested in the equity markets in analyzing the choices available to them. The book features contributions from leading practitioners in the field on 16 major markets, including Australia, China, Dubai, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Intermediaries, banks and corporate finance advisers, brokers, sponsors, lawyers and accountants will find the book highly relevant and informative in analysing the key criteria applying to major stock exchanges around the world.

This comprehensive new title features contributions by leading experts from 24 countries, highlighting in just one volume the important features of liability and the protection available in each jurisdiction and outlining the respective risks of doing business in each of the different territories. Unique in its approach, this new book provides a powerful tool in assisting directors, officers and in-house counsel of national and international companies, and the private practice lawyers advising them, to make well-informed judgements about the risks they are taking.

This is the only volume to cover real estate investment trusts and significant property funds in 12 jurisdictions. Written by specialists in this field, each chapter sets out the rules and regulations governing REITs, their tax treatment and how they contrast with other property funds in the jurisdiction. Each chapter adopts the same format for ease of reference, covering key concepts such as tax, investor limitations, distribution requirements, gearing, conversion charge, treatment of offshore investors and related issues. This major work provides an invaluable guide for anyone dealing with cross-border real estate investment to the local application of REITs in all major REIT jurisdictions and how they differ from other property funds.

Featuring contributions from leading world experts, this important new title introduces climate change law and describes how it has evolved. The book explains how to set up and operate carbon projects, and how to bring the credits from those projects to the market. It also describes the operation of the carbon markets and addresses the broader impact of climate change issues in other areas such as accountancy and taxation, corporate transactions, litigation, corporate social responsibility, and real estate. This book provides a valuable source of information for those new to this fast-evolving sector through to more experienced climate change professionals.

Company Formation: A Practical Global Guide, Second Edition is an updated and expanded edition of the popular title on how to set up a company in a wide range of key jurisdictions.

The new edition features chapters from 43 jurisdictions by leading practitioners. These experts compare the advantages of different types of limited liability company available in their jurisdiction.

New for the second edition are chapters on the BVI, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Panama, Poland, Romania, Singapore, South Africa and Sweden.

The 780-page major work features practical coverage on a wide range of legal issues, including: administration of the company, capital stock, company reorganisation, dissolution, domicile, equity, financial statements, incorporation and tax.

This book is essential reading for all lawyers who advise companies on setting up in a new jurisdiction and heads of business planning to expand their companies on to the global market.

Written by specialists from each jurisdiction, this forthcoming new edition provides an in-depth, article-by-article analysis of the local enactment and application of the model law in each of the jurisdictions concerned, alongside consideration of the relationship between the model law and any existing cross-border insolvency jurisprudence. New to the second edition are chapters on Australia, the Cayman Islands, New Zealand and South Korea, and an in-depth analysis of recent case law such as the landmark US decisions in Bear Stearns.

This practical new title features 27 chapters by leading experts on the various factors to consider when acquiring a company in their jurisdictions, including the pitfalls to avoid and proposed solutions. This book is a comprehensive guide to the legal framework applicable internationally in the field of M&A for companies, banks, private equity funds and private investors and their legal advisers.

This accessible new title explains in straightforward terms each type of credit derivative transaction together with the documentation involved. In particular, the book analyses and guides the reader through the full suite of funded and unfunded credit derivatives documentation, and provides a detailed guide to the 2003 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions. Featuring analysis on the 'new generation' of credit derivative products, the book also covers in the funded products arena, listing credit linked notes in the post-Prospectus Directive regime, issues relating to special purpose vehicles and the rating process. Of particular relevance given the current market conditions, the book also features a key section on how to manage a major credit event. Given the recent credit crunch, it is more crucial than ever to understand what product types you may own.

This important new title, by renowned experts in the field, analyses the imaginative tools that have been developed to assist those who have repeated exposure to businesses in distress and the context in which they can be utilised. It explores the commercial agenda that dictates the use of technical procedures such as debt-for-equity swaps and pre-packaged administration sales. The book also examines the ramifications of structured finance and details the workout strategies employed by those who have exposure to those products. Further, the international nature of this area of practice is examined in detail.

This authoritative work provides advisers and principals with the information they need to navigate their way through the challenges of the workout marketplace as the world economies move into an environment of reduced liquidity.

This practical handbook explains how international trade law actually works in practice and how practising lawyers can use trade law to advance the cases of their clients. The book presents international trade law in a clear, step-by-step manner, with short sections at the end of each chapter on how to find further information and explanations of key concepts and procedures. It describes the legal forums available to a country or firm with a case and how an adviser might be called upon by a firm, association or nation to use the relevant trade law. Using practical case studies, the book reviews the substantive rules covering tariffs, subsidies, dumping, services and intellectual property rights. A concluding section explains complex issues related to sustainable development and other emerging topics in a simple, clear manner. This highly accessible title, prepared by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, will appeal to partners and associates in law firms dealing with international economic law, corporate counsel in international and national firms and institutions, and law, economics and business management students.

Global Financial Crisis: Navigating and Understanding the Legal and Regulatory Aspects is a new major work addressing many of the legal issues related to the crisis that has rocked the international financial system and affected the whole range of financial participants, transactions and instruments.

Written by leading practitioners and renowned academics, this forthcoming title provides an in-depth analysis of aspects of the intersection between the financial crisis and the law and practice of selected key jurisdictions, including Argentina, Bermuda, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Germany, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and United States.

This authoritative title provides legal practitioners, academics, financial agents, financial institution officers, investment analysts and managers, investors and officials of regulatory agencies with the information they need to navigate their way through the challenges arising from one of the most significant financial crises in recent history.

Public procurement rules are intended to ensure the best terms for government and the adequate protection of suppliers and contractors who sell their goods and services to the State. This new practical title is particularly timely given the evolution and improvement in public procurement regimes in many jurisdictions.

This unique forthcoming title contains contributions from leading experts around the world who explain the best practice in public procurement in their jurisdictions. In addition to 19 jurisdictional chapters by leading professionals, featured chapters include contributions on United Nations best practice, the European directives, how countries are fighting corruption in the field and how PPP projects are procured.

Legal advisers, government officers, consultants and academics will find the book useful in providing practical ideas regarding how best practices have been implemented in different jurisdictions and the results of such implementation.

This title is the only volume to cover the national implementation of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency in 10 jurisdictions. Written by specialists from each jurisdiction, it provides an in-depth, article-by-article analysis of the local enactment and application of the model law in each of the jurisdictions concerned, alongside consideration of the relationship between the model law and any existing cross-border insolvency jurisprudence. Each chapter adopts the same format for ease of reference, addressing key concepts such as the centre of main interests, court-to-court communication, enforcement of security interests and the protection of debtors and creditors. This major work provides an invaluable guide to the local application and comparative analysis of the model law for anyone dealing with cross-border insolvency issues, including where the debtor has assets in more than one state or where creditors are not from the state in which the insolvency proceeding is taking place.

This practical title features insightful chapters by leading practitioners in Islamic financing (including from Norton Rose, Citigroup Asia and Dubai Islamic Bank), and analyses market trends, key developments and structures for sukuk, syndications, funds, takaful, project financing and Islamic liquidity management. This unique title is essential reading whether you are already engaged in Islamic financing transactions or interested in understanding the Islamic finance market and the structures underpinning the world's fastest-growing finance sector.

This new guide, edited by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), features chapters by leading practitioners in the field, including the Family Firm Institute, HSBC Private Bank, Boodle Hatfield and SandAire. The book considers what makes business families and family businesses unique, and examines the issues that advisers are often called upon to address when assisting them. It helps practitioners to deepen their understanding of how families operate, and to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to advise on such complex areas as conflicts between working and non-working family members, structure, succession, wealth management, governance and meeting a family’s philanthropic objectives.

This highly practical title shows how derivatives are used in a variety of transactions, how the documentation works and why boards need to be aware of them. With contributions from leading law firms, this accessible book takes a transactional approach and features coverage of new product innovations. These include equity and energy derivatives and the expansion of derivatives into new markets such as credit risk, weather risk and property. The book also features topical analysis on corporate governance and directors' duties; ISDA documentation; collateral; close-out netting and structured derivatives. Whether you are from a bank or financial institution or from a company or organisation looking to invest or manage your risk, this title will provide you with practical tools for using derivatives in your business.

This major new title by leading practitioners is a practical guide to patent litigation (and alternatives, if available) in a selection of key jurisdictions. It covers the timescale of proceedings, the availability of interim relief, disclosure, available remedies and costs, among other crucial factors. The book provides a useful comparison of how each jurisdiction deals with the issues that arise and the practical consequences of litigating in each location. This comparison is designed to assist those involved in international patent litigation in devising an effective strategy to manage the litigation and so maximise the chances of a successful outcome, while also reducing unnecessary costs.

The book is a concise, practical guide for all those involved in the conduct and management of international patent litigation, from in-house professionals (patent managers, patent attorneys and general counsel) to those in private practice.

The second edition of this successful title features analysis from 19 jurisdictions where trusts are part of the economic and legal landscape. The book contains 30 chapters, contributed by practitioners and academics - many of whom are members of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners - on various aspects of trust law, taxation and related subjects, both on and offshore. The work is an invaluable resource for the specialist practitioner wishing to gain a broader, international perspective, and for professionals who require a good basic knowledge of the subject.

This new title provides an indispensable guide to important legal developments in the field of secured finance, the taking of security interests over key business assets, the legal framework for security interests in emerging markets and innovations in credit risk management. Featuring 15 chapters, the book provides a practitioner-oriented perspective on fixed charges over circulating assets, the role of the security trustee and the prospects for reform of the English personal property security regime. The book also examines the use of security interests to support derivatives and private equity transactions and the taking of security interest over aircraft, bank accounts, cross-border receivables, intellectual property and ships. Guidance is also provided on secured finance transactions in Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Poland and Russia and the use of credit derivatives to manage credit risk.