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Equity Steel producer Grupo Simec has completed a $217 million SEC registered secondary offering and a Mexican public offering. The offering is the first of its type by a Mexican issuer in 2007. Thacher Proffitt & Wood acted for Grupo Simec and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, led by partners Michael Fitzgerald and Taisa Markus, represented underwriter Citigroup on the deal. The success of the offering reflected the premium placed on Mexican manufacturing companies that service the North American Free Trade Area.

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.

In January 2007 the Polish Government proposed an amendment to the Registered Pledge and Pledges Registry Act (in force from January 1 1998).

Through its act of January 18 2007 (the Act), the Italian privacy oversight authority (the Authority) has set forth new provisions on assignments of claims in block and securitizations of receivables.

The 2007 budget was introduced in Parliament by the prime minister and minister of finance, Dato' Seri Abdullah bin Hj Ahmad Badawi on September 1 2006. Various new tax incentives were introduced, in particular to boost Islamic banking and finance to make Malaysia a leading international Islamic financial centre. Other budgetary highlights include the introduction of advance rulings and a Customs Appeal Tribunal.

Investment in Treasury bills (T-Bills) is the most common, and consequently most recognized, form of investment in securities for the Albanian investor.

The first comprehensive survey on market practice by banks, for banks

A project's viability may ride upon the structure of commodity swap agreements

Investors could be put at a disadvantage by the increased use of B pieces in securitization