New Zealand: On 4 May 2026 the Financial Markets Authority released its ‘Consultation: Related party transactions insights’. Despite its title, the Consultation Paper takes the form of a regulatory guidance on related party transactions involving registered managed investment schemes (MIS), punctuated by a number of consultation questions. Strip out those questions, and you have the guidance. In this Financial Law insight, we take a bird’s eye view of the Consultation Paper and the regulatory settings for RPBs, pluck out a couple of aspects of potential concern with the draft FMA position and consider what’s missing.

Canada: Construction contracts often include arbitration clauses, providing parties with an alternative path to dispute outside of court. In a recent BC Supreme Court decision, the Court ordered a stay of a lawsuit filed by an owner in favour of arbitration, concluding that although the owner was not technically a signatory to the construction contract containing the arbitration clause, there was an arguable case the owner could be bound by the arbitration clause.

Australia: A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Western Australia considered an application under Section 444GA of the Act where Administrators of a Deed of Company Arrangement sought leave to transfer the shares of an insolvent company to in circumstances where that transfer of shares would result in a return to shareholders of the insolvent company which the court referred to as “unique”.

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Nach dem Putschversuch 2016 verurteilte die Türkei einen Mann wegen Mitgliedschaft in einer Terrororganisation. Er verbrachte vier Jahre im überfüllten Gefängnis. Der EGMR sah diverse Verstöße gegen die EMRK.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is marking the 20th anniversary of its Shanghai office, celebrating two decades of commitment to supporting clients in China.

The Autorité des marchés publics (AMP, Quebec’s securities regulator) is the government body responsible for overseeing Quebec’s public procurement markets.