Preface Peter Hsu & Rashid Bahar, Bar & Karrer Ltd Albania Ada Braho, Frost & Fire Consulting 1Angola Hugo Moredo Santos & Nadia da Costa Ribeiro,Vieira de Almeida & Associados 11Argentina Javier L. Magnasco & Daniel Levi, Estudio Beccar Varela 18Canada Blair W. Keefe & Eli Monas, Torys LLP 24Chile Max Spiess, Juan Pablo Baraona & Ricardo Vasquez, Baraona Abogados 33China Dongyue Chen & Xingyu Wu, Zhong Lun Law Firm 45Colombia Luis Humberto Ustariz Gonzalez, Estudio Juridico Ustariz & Abogados 58Congo D.R. Angeline Mangana & Gaby Kabue, MBM-Conseil 65Cyprus Elias Neocleous & George Chrysaphinis, Andreas Neocleous & Co LLC 71Ecuador Dr Boanerges Rodriguez Freire & Pedro Jose Izquierdo LL.M.,Coronel & Perez 81Finland Andrei Aganimov & Niina Nuottimaki, Borenius Attorneys Ltd 87France Jean L'Homme & Gael Rousseau, Fidal 96Germany Dr. Maximilian von Rom & Sebastian Tusch, Gleiss Lutz 105Greece George Bersis & Smaragda Rigakou, PotamitisVekris 113Japan Koichi Miyamoto, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune 122Mozambique Orlando Vogler Guine, Joao Mayer Moreira & Filipe Ravara,Vieira de Almeida & Associados 132Netherlands Joris van Horzen & Joost Achterberg, Kennedy Van der Laan N.V. 140Portugal Hugo Moredo Santos & Benedita Aires, Vieira de Almeida & Associados 149Russia Alexander Linnikov, Sergei Sadovoy & Leonid Karpov,LEAD Consulting Law Firm 158Rwanda Julien Kavaruganda & Emmanuel Muragijimana, K-Solutions & Partners 174Singapore Elaine Chan, WongPartnership LLP 183Spain Fernando Minguez Hernandez, Inigo de Luisa Maiz & Rafael Minguez Prieto,Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira 192Switzerland Peter Hsu & Rashid Bahar, Bar & Karrer Ltd 205Togo Martial Akakpo & Sandrine Badjili, MARTIAL AKAKPO & PARTNERS, LLP 215United Kingdom Ben Hammond, Nicola Higgs & Lorraine Johnston, Ashurst LLP 224USA Reena Agrawal Sahni & Timothy J. Byrne, Shearman & Sterling LLP 235Uzbekistan Mels Akhmedov & Irina Tsoy, Business Attorney Service 245Venezuela Gustavo J. Reyna & Carlos Omana, D'Empaire Reyna Abogados