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Chinese regulator uncovers market abuse

China's Banking Regulatory Commission has revealed a big increase in corruption and insider trading in the PRC's stock markets, confirming counsel's fears of opacity

July 31 2007

Repos rising

New structures created by US bankruptcy laws

July 31 2007

Linklaters grows in Italy; Allen & Overy office in Dusseldorf; New managers for Freshfields China

Europe Allen & Overy announced on June 29 that it will be opening a new office in Düsseldorf, Germany. This means A&O will be represented in four of Germany's most important commercial centres with offices in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Mannheim. M&A partner Thomas Austmann, from Freshfields, is joining Allen & Overy to manage the development of the Düsseldorf office, which is due to open on October 1 2007.

July 31 2007

India breaks equity records; Exchanges consolidate in the US; Dubai benefits from Khazanah bond

Equity Despite fears over a lack of legal market reform, India has witnessed its largest-ever initial public offering (IPO) and equity offering from DLF and ICICI Bank, respectively. ICICI carried out the country's largest equity offering, raising $5 billion in a follow-on public offer on the Indian and New York Stock Exchanges. Elsewhere, DLF, a real estate company, capitalized on India's booming property market and raised $2.25 billion in the country's largest ever IPO.

July 31 2007

Airports go private

Sumeet Kachwaha and Ashok Sagar outline India's airport privatization process and look at some of the issues raised

July 31 2007

Bank offerings

Italian Legislative Decree 51 of March 28 2007, implementing EU Directive 2003/71/EC, has introduced amendments to the regulation of financial markets contained in the Italian Financial Act.

July 31 2007

Overseas direct investment

An Indian company may invest directly in a joint venture (JV) or wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) abroad engaged in a bona fide business activity, provided that the total financial commitment/overseas investment of the Indian company does not exceed 200% of its net worth, according to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of any Foreign Security) Regulations 2004.

July 31 2007

Competition

In a speech at a Canadian Bar Association/International Bar Association conference in Toronto in May, the Canadian Commissioner of Competition, Sheridan Scott, described the Competition Bureau's enforcement and advocacy priorities for 2007-2008. Although broadly consistent with those outlined by the Commissioner in recent years, the Commissioner announced some further specific steps that will be taken to advance the Bureau's objectives.

July 31 2007

Latin American private equity

The language of leverage

July 31 2007

Risk in Russia

The price of stability

July 31 2007

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