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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

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

The US federal securities laws are a continuously evolving area. We regularly issue client alerts summarizing important recent developments. These can be found on our website, www.lw.com.

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).

Shareholders who acquire beneficial ownership of more than 5% of a class of equity securities registered under the Exchange Act (a registered equity class) become subject to certain filing obligations with the SEC.[677] In particular, the shareholder must file with the SEC (and send to the issuer of the securities by registered or certified mail) a statement on Schedule 13D or (if they are eligible) a short-form statement on Schedule 13G.[678]

The regime governing communications during public securities offerings in the US Section 5(c) of the Securities Act prohibits all "offers", in whatever form, prior to the filing of a registration statement. The term offer is interpreted broadly.

This overview summarizes the key provisions of the US federal securities laws that apply to foreign private issuers (a term that covers most non-US issuers, other than foreign governments) when they offer securities for sale in the US or list their securities for trading or quotation on the US stock markets.[1]

On June 29 2006, the National Assembly passed the Law on Real Estate Businesses, which then came into force on January 1 2007.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) released details of changes to the capital adequacy requirements for Singapore-incorporated banks on February 8 2007.

In order to transpose and implement Directive 2006/48/EC from the European Parliament and Council relating to credit institutions, and Directive 2006/49/EC on the capital adequacy of investment firms and credit institutions, the Romanian government issued Ordinance 99/2006 on credit institutions and capital adequacy (GO 99/2006), which entered into force on January 1 2007.