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Why one third of all deals end in dispute or misunderstanding, and why no one wants to litigate in China

The UK has fewer remedies against the abuse of short selling by hedge funds than the US

Barbara Rosenberg and Gabriela Ribeiro Nolasco of Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão outline Brazil's competition rules

Maurício Teixeira dos Santos and Carlos Augusto Junqueira of Souza, Cescon Avedissian, Barrieu e Flesch shed some light on convertible and exchangeable securities in Brazil and explore why development is moving so slowly in this area

There are three distinct markets within Nasdaq: the Nasdaq Global Market (NGM), the newly created Nasdaq Global Select Market (NGSM)[999] and the Nasdaq Capital Market (NCM). The NGSM mandates the highest initial listing requirements of any market in the world, while its maintenance requirements are identical to those of the NGM. The NGM, in turn, has more stringent quantitative listing and maintenance requirements than the NCM. Except as noted below, the quantitative listing and maintenance criteria applicable to non-Canadian foreign private issuers for the NGM, NGSM and NCM are identical to those of US domestic and Canadian issuers. Foreign private issuers (including Canadian issuers) may, however, elect to follow home country practice in lieu of compliance with the Nasdaq corporate governance requirements (other than as described below).

As a general matter, there is no duty under the US federal securities laws to disclose material information unless an applicable rule or regulation specifically requires disclosure.[816] A foreign private issuer's duty to disclose may arise in situations such as:

WKSIs and other issuers The rules relating to free writing prospectuses draw a key distinction between four different types of issuers – WKSIs; seasoned issuers; unseasoned reporting issuers; and non-reporting issuers.

US public offering reforms On June 29 2005, the SEC unanimously adopted a series of new rules to reform the registration, communication and offering processes in the US.[34] The final rule changes took effect on December 1 2005.[35]

US Securities Act of 1933; US Securities Exchange Act of 1934 The two principal federal securities statutes in the US are the US Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act) and the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act). To simplify considerably, the Securities Act governs the offer and sale of securities in the US, while the Exchange Act regulates the trading of securities on a US national securities exchange such as the New York Stock Exchange (the NYSE) or quotation on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq), ongoing periodic and annual reporting, and tender and exchange offers.

Since the inauguration of the Act on Collective Investment in 2000, collective investment has been the most rapidly evolving sector of the capital markets in the Slovak Republic. To meet market demand for more possibilities for collective investment, a new type of fund has been introduced, allowing specialized portfolios to be created that are comprised solely of real estate assets.