Click cover to download

(Subscriber-only password access)

Not a subscriber?

Click here to join the FREE mailing list and receive password access

To read an article, download the full issue by clicking the cover above.

COVER STORY

Exit strategies for private equity portfolio companies

FEATURES

Restructuring in the European banking sector

Sharing the wealth: China’s pledge on inbound investment

ROUNDTABLE

Effective dispute resolution

THE PANELLISTS: Tania Siciliano, Bell Dewar; Christopher E. Thorsen, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP; Tim Portwood, Bredin Prat; Geoffrey B. Shaw, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP; John S. Kiernan, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Deborah E. Greenspan, Dickstein Shapiro LLP; Kamil Zawicki, Kubas Kos Gaertner - Adwokaci sp.p.; and Steven Schwartz, NERA Economic.

WORLDWATCH

Private equity

Fortune favours the bold (and well structured)

Andrew Bullock, Deborah Johns and Peter Feros, Gilbert + Tobin

BVI legal and regulatory framework – insight for offshore private equity investors

Kerry Anderson and Christopher Simpson, O’Neal Webster

The recovery of private equity – a series of false dawns?

Richard Burton and Dr Joachim Englert, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Regulation of private equity in Germany

Dr Benedikt Weiser, Mayer Brown

Current status of Portuguese private equity

Francisco Xavier de Almeida and Vasco Rodrigues, Rui Pena, Arnaut & Associados

Carried interest taxation: on the edge of a sea change?

Matthew P. Larvick, Vedder Price

US private equity industry assesses impact of financial industry reform legislation

Cyane B. Crump, James S. Seevers, Jr. and Peter G. Weinstock, Hunton & Williams LLP

WORLDWATCH

Asia Pacific tax

Debt funding your Australian subsidiaries – risks and guidance

Anthony Klein, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Chinese tax authorities getting more aggressive towards offshore share transfers

Charlie Sun, CMS

Navigating through the tax incentives in China

Eugene Lim and Edrick Guo, Baker & McKenzie

Overseas subsidiaries liable to tax under new Code?

Vipul Jhaveri and Manish Desai, Deloitte Haskins & Sells

The increased emphasis on beneficial ownership analysis in determining eligibility of offshore income recipients to claim tax treaty benefits

Mee-Hyon Lee, Lee & Ko

DEALfront

mergers & acquisitions

Global M&A to increase in H2

Asia financial services to see more M&A

Renewables M&A hints at recovery

private equity & venture capital

Impact of the Volcker rule on private fund investments

Banks divest and divide their PE assets

bankruptcy & corporate restructuring

Corporate concern remains over euro zone recovery

Blockbuster on the verge of bankruptcy

UK commission calls for bank overhaul

INdepth

The role of ESOPs in private equity deals

Restructuring in the private equity market

Transfer pricing of intangible assets

Tax disputes

Managing governance, risk and compliance

PROFESSIONALinsight

Mergers & acquisitions

M&A 2010 – an overview

Alan M. Klein, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Public company M&A in 2010 – navigating today’s deal issues in a challenging market

James R. Griffin, Fulbright & Jaworski

Dealmaking in a time of uncertainty

Trevor Norwitz and Karessa Cain, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Recent legal developments in the German M&A market

Wolfgang Grobecker, Jens Hörmann and Otto Haberstock, P+P Pöllath + Partners

The role of the Zambia competition commission in controlling mergers and acquisitions pre and post the economic recession

Charles Siamutwa, Corpus Legal Practitioners

CONTRIBUTORS

Arnaut & Associados

Baker & McKenzie

Bell Dewar

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Bredin Prat

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

CMS

Corpus Legal Practitioners

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Deloitte Haskins & Sells

Dickstein Shapiro LLP

Fulbright & Jaworski

Gilbert + Tobin

Hunton & Williams LLP

Kubas Kos Gaertner - Adwokaci sp.p.

Lee & Ko

Mayer Brown

NERA Economic.

O’Neal Webster

P+P Pöllath + Partners

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Vedder Price

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz