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David Clinch and Natalya Pilbeam explain some of the complexities of the largest long-term Islamic project finance tranche in recent times

Firms reunite for Indiana toll privatization White & Case, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw were among the advisers on the biggest US highway privatization to date.

Last year, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) was corporatized on June 24 2005 by conversion to a public limited company. Two Royal Decrees were published, one stipulating powers, rights and benefits of EGAT pcl, and one repealing the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand Act.

The Government Emergency Ordinance 45/2003 on local public finance (GEO 45) allows municipalities to conclude short-, medium- and long-term loans with internal and external contracting parties, to finance public investments of local interest or refinance local public debt.

A new Securities Act (Official Gazette of RS, 47/06) will apply from December 11 2006 in Serbia. The main reasons for the revisions to the Securities Act are its rather vague and often unresolved provisions and the fact that the Act is not fully harmonized with general corporate and financial laws in Serbia.

The Government of Republic of Indonesia and the Central Bank of Indonesia have agreed on a new joint policy package on the financial sector. It is intended to increase coordination between fiscal and monetary authorities, and to intensify the reform of the banking industry, non-bank financial institutions and the capital markets within the next nine months. The policy is enacted through a joint decision letter (SKB) signed and issued by the ministries of economy, finance and state-owned enterprises (SOE or BUMN), together with the Bank of Indonesia, on July 5 2006. Based on the SKB, the programme will be executed in stages over nine months. The SKB's 14 stipulations, 34 programmes, and 55 action plans will be conducted by the Department of Finance, State Ministerial Office of BUMN and the Central Bank. The package consists of four groups of policy, as follows.

Kathy Stones explains the impact of the final chapter of the Eurofood insolvency case

Alan Beller, former head of the SEC's division of corporation finance, talks to Ben Maiden about his part in a regulatory revolution

Gary Rice breaks down the latest US proposals on Basel II and explains why lawyers must be aware of them to advise clients adequately

Peter Declercq explains why a European group of companies facing insolvency should avoid secondary insolvency proceedings to optimize value