Ogier's Guernsey team has provided Guernsey legal advice to Burford Capital Limited ("Burford Capital") on the raising of approximately £192.6 million (US$ 251.2 million) through an equity placing...

The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will expire in 2012. Governments around the world are gearing up to meet in Copenhagen this December and negotiate a political agreement about what to do after 2012.

Industrial operators and developers, infrastructure funds, strategic investors, advisers and pension funds were among the delegates at the fourth annual Infrastructure Investors Forum Europe in the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer London offices on 2 February.

In which part of the world is the risk of anti-corruption enforcement the highest? Law360 reported last week that, according to a report by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Asia appears to be the focus of United States ("US") regulators’ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act crackdown.

Greater economic stability, the offer of attractively priced assets, and a growing demand for direct lending means that private equity funds are increasingly targeting the Iberian market.

The equitisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) can be traced back to a pilot project that started in 1992 (slightly worrying news for proponents of public private partnerships (PPP), who have just seen the first draft of the regulations on PPP pilot projects).

The total value of M&A deals in Spain and Portugal doubled in 2014 – a further increase is expected this year, though imminent elections are causing uncertainty.

We remain cautiously optimistic about the prospects for activity in the international infrastructure market. This is supported by our new study and by the sustained levels of activity since the onset of the credit crunch.

In Germany, there is no single body of laws governing Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).

Lawyers report new trend for ‘European-based corporates' to target assets in the Spanish and Portuguese real estate, tourism, insurance, finance, healthcare and energy sectors.

The current financial crisis has placed pressure on banks in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific region to review the structure of their businesses as well as their compliance with global standards.

Companies whose shares are traded on a regulated European Economic Area market will have to consider making further changes to their articles of association.

Russia's need to improve its infrastructure has led to a concerted move to embrace Public Private Partnerships.

Infrastructure is creaking in Vietnam. A staggering 95 per cent of respondents to a recent survey named it as the biggest obstacle to investment in Vietnam.

So said Sir Thomas Bingham in the case of Bolton v Law Society in 1993, noting that "Membership of a profession brings many benefits, but that is part of the price."

The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (the "Age Regulations") came into force on 1 October 2006. The Age Regulations prohibit discrimination on the grounds of age and are a far-reaching piece of anti-discrimination legislation - it is not limited to protecting only one particular group, but every employee (at one time or another) could potentially bring a claim under the Age Regulations.

Nuclear power is increasingly being seen as the energy of the future. Most established nuclear markets have considerable nuclear new build plans.

After a year of drafting and parliamentary discussions, Spain now has a new law on equal treatment between women and men. This is a ‘code of law’, so-called as it refers to all areas of society introducing amendments to 22 pieces of existing legislation and covering the public and the private sector.

The proportion of women partners at leading firms in Portugal is currently almost twice that at top firms in Spain, new research shows.

This paper considers the current position of infrastructure investment by the private sector in the Middle East. It reviews the impact on the pace of infrastructure development of certain trends affecting sectors in the region.