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Structured finance

Bangkok Bank, HSBC and TMB Bank acted as arrangers on Thailand's largest securitization to date. The THB10.3 billion ($250 million) issue of securities was backed by lease revenues from government offices in Chaengwatthana. It also marked the Royal Thai Government's debut securitization. White & Case, led by Manida Zimmerman, advised the arrangers. The Thai Government was advised by the attorney-general's office.

January 01 2006

Banking

Stephen Christopher, Mallesons Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Mallesons Stephen Jaques advised on the HK$9 billion syndicated financing of Hutchison Telecommunications International. Stephen Christopher led the Mallesons team acting for the group of 13 mandated lead arrangers, which included ABN Amro as documentation bank and Standard Chartered Bank as facility agent and security trustee. Freshfields was counsel to the borrower.

January 01 2006

Europe

Nick Collier, ICMA The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) appointed Nick Collier as head of its regulatory policy team. His primary responsibility will be to develop the team's response to increased regulatory challenges, such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. Collier was previously director of international compliance, risk, regulatory and government affairs at Instinet Europe.

January 01 2006

Protecting creditors of public limited companies (part I)

Since the invention of the limited liability company, the possibility to incorporate with limited liability has tended to have the adverse effect of transferring uncompensated trading risks from shareholders to creditors.

January 01 2006

Fifteen trends to expect in 2006

IFLR chooses the regulatory, legislative and transactional trends to watch out for over the coming 12 months. By Ben Maiden, Siew-Fong Leung, Daniel Andrews and James Rice

January 01 2006

Sweden

January 01 2006

Is Korea's securities class action law working?

Korea's adoption of securities-related class action lawsuits has been met with expectation from proponents and critics alike. But, as Sheron Korpus explains, Korean companies might have won the initial battle, as plaintiffs face considerable obstacles to filing suit

January 01 2006

Reforms make hedge funds look to Japan

Hedge funds are increasingly interested in Japan as the economy recovers and reforms ease investment. But the regulatory environment remains challenging and funds must be aware of the risks. By Christopher P Wells

January 01 2006

Multinationals face e-discovery challenges

Steven Bennett and Sam Millar compare the different approaches to e-discovery in the US and the UK, highlighting the difficulties that international businesses face

January 01 2006

Disclosure of electronic materials

Nowadays, the bulk of commercial documentary exchanges are electronic, and thus the scope of parties' rights and obligations in connection with disclosure of so-called e-materials must be properly understood. The provisions of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) were recently clarified in this respect with the update of Practice Direction 31 (PD-31).

January 01 2006

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