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To prevent companies making false statements in disclosure documents and to maintain the integrity of the securities exchange markets, the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law (the FIEL) has established an internal control reporting system. The Japanese Diet enacted the FIEL on June 7 2006, through an amendment to the Securities and Exchange Law (the SEL). Listed companies will be required to comply with the new system at the start of their respective fiscal years beginning on or after April 1 2008. A Cabinet Order will provide specifics regarding the companies subject to the system.

Leading firms in the US are taking advantage of booming private equity business as funds continue to make inroads into corporate America.

Bar associations and local firms need not fight about deregulation. Everyone can win

A downturn will show it to be overpriced

New US markets offering foreign issuers an escape from Sox

China focuses on insider dealing

Over 200 US-registered public companies have announced they are conducting stock option issuance investigations to determine whether options were issued according to regulation and company practices. The principal focus of these investigations is to determine whether option prices were established at the grant date or retroactively. Many investigations now have been in process for over a year, others for more than two. Affected companies range from large well-respected US companies to microcap companies on various continents.

The European cooperative society has been introduced as a new form of business in the Slovak Republic and widens possibilities for legal entities already doing business in the EU or for future entrepreneurs. The inauguration of SCEs reflects efforts to remove impediments arising from differences between national laws and will further boost entrepreneurial cross-border activities within the EU.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) issued a revised Singapore Code on Takeovers and Mergers on March 15 2007, following earlier public consultation by the Securities Industry Council (SIC).

Linklaters is to promote three partners into senior managerial roles tomorrow.