• Aviation - India

  Aviation regulator to undergo structural change

  Based on the result of a feasibility study conducted for the establishment of an autonomous regulatory body in India, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation intends to propose that it convert into the Civil Aviation Authority of India - a regulatory body that will have greater autonomy and enhanced powers in comparison to those that it presently exercises.

• E-commerce - United Arab Emirates

  Impact of new Arabic IDNs in the Middle East

  In line with the decision of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers at the end of 2009 to allow domain names to be registered in Arabic, Chinese and other non-Latin scripts (internationalized domain names (IDNs)), 16 applications have been filed for country-level IDNs. Accordingly, the launch of Arabic-language IDNs, including '.امارات' ('.emarat'), appears imminent.

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• $282 million rights issue

  First Pacific Company Ltd Davis Polk & Wardwell - William F Barron, Eugene C Gregor, James C Lin; Richards Butler LLP
  Syndicate of underwriters

• €2.2 billion acquisition

  EQT III fund Hengeler Mueller - Maximillian Schiessl, Wolfgang Meyer-Sparenberg; Clifford Chance LLP - Alan Inglis
  GIC Fund Hengeler Mueller - Maximillian Schiessl, Wolfgang Meyer-Sparenberg
  Springer Science+Business Media Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP - David Sonter

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