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US regulator rings the changes Erik Sirri, the new director of the SEC's division of market regulation Economist Erik Sirri will start work this month as director of the SEC's division of market regulation. Dr Sirri currently serves as a professor of finance at Babson College and is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. He was the SEC's chief economist from 1996 to 1999 and specializes in the structuring and performance of stock exchanges and the relationship between securities law and finance.

In rendering a delisting decision, an Indonesian stock exchange consults with the listing committee for its opinion. If the shares of the listed company are delisted, all types of securities of that listed company will also be delisted from the stock exchange. To decide a delisting proposal, the stock exchange reviews and examines statements and documents submitted by the listed company or other information. It not only takes into account the formal aspects, but also considers the substance of the requirements and the listing committee's opinion.

Venture capital, private equity and hedge funds require tax-transparent structures that allow investors and fund managers to reap the full benefits of their investments with no local tax exposure. Malta introduced a special kind of limited partnership (LP) in 2003. It is a partnership en commandite with a separate legal personality. It therefore benefits from the established body of law and case law that has developed over many years. It must be licensed as a collective investment scheme, the capital can be divided into shares, and both the limited partners and the general partners can be limited liability companies formed in any jurisdiction.

Foreign companies have raised funds in the Japanese bond market by issuing Samurai bonds. But primary offerings of Samurai bonds by US corporations have essentially stopped since March 2006. This is said to have resulted from US tax concerns arising from Japan's adoption of a new book-entry transfer system.

Cyprus has amended the Cypriot Companies Law to implement Council Regulation 2157/2001 on the statute for a European public limited company, otherwise known as Societas Europaea (SE). The way is now clear for the registration of the first Cypriot SEs.

India is the only country in the world with a ministry – the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (MNES) – established exclusively to regulate the development of renewable energies for national development. India ranks fourth among the world leaders in wind power capacity, after Germany, Spain and the US.

Since 2004, the PRC government has adopted various macro-control measures over the real estate market. However, these measures proved to have limited impact partly because of the lack of control over foreign investment.

Welcome to the new expanded IFLR. The magazine now has more coverage of M&A, private equity, project finance, banking and financial services, as well as the expertise and analysis of the capital markets it is renowned for. The new coverage is organized into four dedicated practice sections, making the topics you are interested in easy to find and the magazine simple to navigate.

Wolfgang Zürcher and Beat D Speck of Wenger & Vieli provide an outline of how equity placements, both private and public, are regulated