Canada Antitrust/competition By Lawson Hunter, QC, Susan M Hutton and Sandra Walker of Stikeman Elliott
Mexico Acquiring publicly held Mexican Companies – legal and regulatory issues By Guillermo Pérez Santiago and Rodrigo Conesa Labastida Ritch, Heather y Mueller, SC
Australia Break fees and other lock-up arrangements – recent Australian developments By Rachel Launders, Gilbert + Tobin, Sydney
India Legal and tax considerations in cross-border M&A By Deanne D'Souza-Monie of Nishith Desai Associates, Mumbai
Japan 2001 – another year of deferred optimism? By Dean A Yoost and Ross Kerley, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tokyo
Singapore 2001: The year that singapore charged into M&A By Lee Suet Fern and Lim Merng Phang of Shearman & Sterling Stamford, Singapore
European Union Navigating the treacherous shoals of EC merger clearance By Thomas Mueller, Eric Mahr and Axel Gutermuth of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, Brussels
Austria The Austrian M&A market By Gerald Schmidsberger of Saxinger Chalupsky Weber & Partners, Vienna
Belgium By Michael Olislaegers and Dirk Lontings of Lontings & Partners, with the assistance of Patrick Verraes and Esther Somsen for the research
Finland General reflections on 2001 By Nina Wilkman and Christian Fogelholm of Borenius & Kemppinen, Helsinki
Germany The new German Takeover Law from an international perspective By Geza Martin Toth-Feher, partner, and Alexander Ballmann, Julia Launhard and Franziska Stahlknecht associates of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, London
Italy Public M&A – a survey of Consob resolution 2000 – 2001 By Paolo Montironi and Lukas Plattner NCTM – Studio Legale Associato
The Netherlands Developments in public M&A in the Netherlands in 2001 – hostile offers and other battles By Karine Kodde and Jan Louis Burggraaf of Allen & Overy, Amsterdam
Norway The dust begins to settle By Rune Solberg and Even Bratsberg of Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund, Oslo and London
Russia Mergers and acquisitions under Russian law and practice: general overview By Alexandre Muranov of Monastyrsky, Zyuba, Semenov & Partners, Moscow
Sweden Interesting aspects of M&A transactions for the foreign investor By Carl-Olof Bouveng and Robert Hansson of Advokatfirman Lindahl, Stockholm
