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Sukuk Al-Ijarah is one of the products in Malaysian capital market which is rapidly growing as an alternative to Islamic private debt securities structured under the concepts of Bai' Bithaman Ajil and Murabahah.

The Cayman Islands unit trust continues to be the vehicle of choice for funds aimed at the Japanese market, primarily for tax and regulatory reasons. In the following, I will consider some of the commonly asked questions that clients and professionals alike have in relation to unit trust structures.

Few would argue that the big news in Employment and Industrial Relations for 2008 is the Federal Government's impending changes to Workchoices.

Increasing harmonisation of the commercial laws of Australia and New Zealand in recent years means lawyers can now deal with one 'Australia'

As one of Australia's leading single office firms, <EM>Henry Davis York</EM> prides itself on doing things differently, whether it be its strong focus on people, culture and organic growth, its decision to practice from Sydney only or its specialist banking and financial services practice.

Revealing the winners at the 2011 ALB-Macquarie Bank Law Awards: which firms collected the honours this year?

International boutique law firm Webb Henderson will open an office in London, following the appointment of a new partner there.

A milestone LNG project between the world’s largest LNG buyer, Kogas; Japan’s largest trading house, Mitsubishi Corporation; and Indonesia’s largest private sector energy company, Medco Energi Internasional, marks the first-ever joint venture partnership between Korea, Japan and Indonesia on an LNG project. Hogan Lovells; Widyawan & Partners; Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith and its Indonesian ally, Hiswara, Bujamin & Tanjung (HBT), have all played roles on the deal which itself was six years the making.

Hadiputrano, Hadinoto & Partners, Soemadipradja & Taher, Holman Fenwick Willan and Freshfields have advised on a landmark cash and share swap tri-merger involving three public-listed companies. The deal has created one of the biggest global players in coal and has led to the first-ever listing of an Indonesian coal miner on the LSE main board.

Indonesia’s telecommunications giant Tower Bersama has engaged Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Assegaf Hamzah & Partners in a US$2bn loan debt programme to PT Tower Bersama Infrastructure and its operating companies. Norton Rose and Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners advised the programme coordinators of the transaction.

The US$1.2bn acquisitional financing of five gas power stations as well as a 54 kilometre gas pipeline for a group of associated companies in Mexico – all subsidiaries of Mitsui & Co and Tokyo Gas – is a sign of a resurgence in the Asia-Pacific project finance market and overseas acquisitions by Japanese utilities and trading companies.

Corporates are venturing back into the bond market – but this time there’s a retail twist

Less than a month after its formation, SNR Denton International law firm has seen its Muscat head of infrastructure and projects, Mary Allan, lured away by US firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle (Curtis).

Sicangco, Herbert Smith, ACCRA Law and Bakers have acted on the sale of BG Group’s indirectly held 40% stake in the Santa Rita and San Lorenzo natural gas-fired power plants in the Philippines to Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) for a net consideration of US$400m.

Korea’s Shin & Kim, India’s Khaitan & Co and two PRC law firms are the five best performing firms in this year’s ALB 50, the guide to the largest law firms in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tuti Dewi Hadinoto, co-founder of Hadinoto & Partners (HHP), has died aged 55.

White & Case and Baker & McKenzie have advised BTA Bank JSC – the largest in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region – on one of the world’s largest bank debt restructures to date.

Mongolia’s mining industry is taking off as projects involving state-owned enterprises and corporate investments fuel market activity, according to Hogan Lovells head of infrastructure and project finance Asia, James Harris.

Malaysian firm Azmi & Associates has inked a formal agreement to collaborate with Indonesian firm Remy & partners, in a joint venture aimed to boost Islamic banking and cross-border corporate work.

Banpu, Thailand’s largest coal miner, has retained Herbert Smith and its associated Indonesian firm, Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung, to advise on the US, UK, Singapore and Indonesian law aspects of Indonesia’s second largest block trade to take place in the last decade.