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Romania: Q&A

By Dinu Ioan Drog and Jörg K Menzer of Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz

January 01 2006

Hedge funds and private equity converge

Matthew Judd of Clifford Chance LLP asks how the private equity space will evolve as hedge funds become increasingly active in the area

January 01 2006

Reorganizations in Latvia

Mergers, divisions and changes in the form of Latvian companies fall under the reorganization rules. This summary covers the main legal and tax points to be taken into account in reorganizations in Latvia.

January 01 2006

Hedge fund rules refined further

A specialized regime governing hedge funds or professional investor funds (PIFs) was introduced in Malta in 2000. In 2005 the number of licence applications received by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) was more than double the number of licences it had issued in the previous four years.

January 01 2006

New market place for small and medium-sized businesses

The Copenhagen Stock Exchange (CSE) has launched its alternative market place for small and medium-sized companies that could be candidates for public offerings without satisfying all requirements needed for larger companies.

January 01 2006

Tax reform and the EU

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is close to finalizing the 16 points of the EU's feasibility study requirements and is opening negotiations for a stabilization and association agreement (SAA) in December 2005. In order to reach the standards required by the EU, BiH will be required to ensure the establishment of single domestic market, a business friendly tax regime and elimination of needless bureaucratic barriers. A key requirement of the EU will be reforms to the tax environment.

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

Mergers and acquisitions

Canadian firms Osler Hoskin & Harcourt and Fasken Martineau were lead advisers on German engineering company ThyssenKrupp's announced acquisition of Dofasco. The deal values Dofasco, which is the largest steel producer in Canada, at C$4.8 billion ($4.1 billion). Walter Palmer of Fasken's Toronto office acted for Dofasco. Mark Trachuk and Clay Horner of Osler Hoskin advised ThyssenKrupp.

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

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