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Christian Kremer and Caroline Migeot of Kremer Associés & Clifford Chance focus on the eligibility of derivative instruments on financial indices for investment by harmonized Ucits

Online UK property marketplace Rightmove completed its £425 million ($744 million) initial public offering (IPO). The company listed on the London Stock Exchange on March 15 and is reported to be investing ahead of changes to UK property law that bring in mandatory buyers' information packs in June 2007. Rightmove's website is the UK's largest property portal. Herbert Smith, through lead partner Greg Mulley, advised sponsor and sole bookrunner UBS on the deal. Slaughter and May advised Rightmove and Addleshaw Goddard advised the selling shareholders.

The general rule of priorly made offers outlined in part I of this article (see IFLR March edition) itself raises several issues.

Gustavo Ordonhas Oliveira of Simmons & Simmons Rebelo de Sousa in Lisbon explains how the new tax regime in Portugal will make it easier to issue, buy and sell the country's corporate bonds

David Childs was voted global managing partner of Clifford Chance. He will take over from Peter Cornell on May 1 on a four year term. Childs, the firm's global chief operating officer, was unanimously elected after no other partners stood against him. He is a corporate specialist who has been a partner at Clifford Chance since 1981. In another uncontested election, Mark Stewart was voted the next managing partner of the firm's London finance practice, also effective from May 1.

There has been mounting speculation in the Danish press that the government will finally introduce legislation to permit financial institutions to issue covered bonds.

The current Finnish takeover regime with its unusually high threshold of two-thirds for mandatory bids has for a long time stood out as an exception from the takeover regimes of other European jurisdictions. In connection with the upcoming implementation of the EU Takeover Directive, Finland will lower the mandatory bid threshold and also otherwise modernize the current regime.

Mergers and acquisitions in Albania are primarily regulated by the provisions of Section VI of Chapter IV of law 7638 on commercial companies, dated November 22 1992. General provisions of the law are outlined below.

The listing of red shares has been the main exit strategy for Chinese start-ups or enterprises with venture capital financing to achieve overseas listing through an IPO.

The overturning of Ontario's first prospectus liability suit leaves important questions unanswered, say Peter Howard and Timothy Banks