Orrick's Betty Louie authored an article in the March/April issue of FinanceAsia that discussed the challenges Chinese investors face when conducting deals in Europe and how best to overcome them.

FW moderates a discussion on executive compensation and best practices.

According to Ken, who formerly served as an attorney in the SEC's Enforcement Division, the Commission has ramped up its cybersecurity enforcement in recent years.

The recent dip in oil prices has set many leading oil and gas companies into situations of financial distress.

The BCBS issued a report and an accompanying press release, which summarized the aggregate results of the latest Basel III monitoring exercise.

On September 5, the CFTC issued a no-action letter to commodity pool operators of registered funds that trade in commodity interest through wholly-owned controlled foreign corporations.

The Council of the EU published a compromise proposal in respect of the European Commission’s proposed Regulation on European Long-Term Investment Funds.

The Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, recently denied Standard & Poor’s motion to dismiss a suit by the State of California.

The 2017 Debtwire European Distressed Debt Outlook report surveyed 100 distressed investors and 30 private equity funds to establish the outlook for 2017.

On September 13, Deutsche Bank, acting in its capacity as Trustee of the Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust, Series 2007-HE6, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against General Electric Capital Corp. and its subsidiary, WMC Mortgage L.L.C.

On September 18, the European Commission published a proposed Regulation on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts, together with a number of related documents, including an impact assessment and a set of frequently asked questions.

On December 20, the Fed advised large financial institutions to ensure that if risks are shifted to a thinly capitalized counterparty, any residual risk is effectively captured in the firm’s internal capital adequacy assessment.

On August 13, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published the final version of its guidelines on key concepts of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (2011/61/EU) (AIFMD) (ESMA/2013/611).

On November 3, 2015, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a class of investors over Goldman's sale of two collateralized debt obligations.

On November 24, 2015, a group of investors, led by Pacific Investment Management Co. ("PIMCO"), filed suit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York against Citibank, N.A., as trustee of 25 private-label RMBS Trusts.

On February 11, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Attorney General of State of New York announced dual settlement agreements with Morgan Stanley providing for the payment of $3.2 billion.

On June 3, 2016, Judge Sarah Netburn of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered BlackRock to identify and serve document subpoenas on the former owners of BlackRock's RMBS certificates.

On January 10, the Fed and the FDIC made available public portions of resolution plans for 116 institutions which are regulated by the Fed and the FDIC and required to submit resolution plans by the Dodd-Frank Act.

On June 2, Fitch released its rating guidelines for rating letter of credit-supported bonds.

On December 10, the FDIC issued a request for comment on its single point of entry strategy for the resolution of Systemically Important Financial Institutions.