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  • Andrew Case of Morgan Stanley
  • Mexico has laid the foundations for a new kind of multi-purpose financial corporation, known as a Sofome (sociedad financiera de objeto múltiple). This new form aims to give financial corporations greater flexibility in their operations and activities, so that they can invest and operate in sectors that were formerly closed to them under laws that limited their operations to a single sector, as in the case of limited purpose financial corporations (Sofoles), and leasing and factoring companies.
  • Shinzo Abe's ascension to the post of prime minister in September 2006 heralded a new era of hawkish Japanese foreign policy. But Abe's international retrenchment is not expected to stretch as far as legal services, where the doors for foreign firms have opened.
  • Clarification, finally
  • A spur to the debt markets
  • Only for the rich
  • The new Bankruptcy Law looks much like the US Code, but has none of its practicalities
  • Reform brings an easier way to do M&A
  • A new reporting system has eased issuance
  • Clifford Chance steals bengoshi from Freshfields Masayuki Okamoto, off to join Clifford Chance Clifford Chance's hiring of Masayuki Okamoto as a partner in its finance practice has strengthened its team of bengoshi (Japan-qualified lawyers), and takes the firm's Tokyo office up to nine Japanese lawyers, compared with 13 non-Japanese.