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Real rights to real property In Albania, a loan agreement is usually associated with a securing charge agreement on collateral. In most cases, the securing charge is a mortgage on real property owned by the debtor. In practice, the parties usually agree in the loan agreement to register a mortgage deed with the real estate register as a condition precedent to the loan agreement taking effect. So the loan agreement usually becomes effective and the loan will be disbursed in favour of the purchaser at the moment the mortgage agreement is registered with the real estate register.

Owen Foley and John Jones of Misick & Stanbrook provide an overview of corporate governance issues for international business corporations formed in The Turks and Caicos Islands

Michele Caratsch of Haymann & Baldi warns that legislators might be getting too carried away in their efforts to improve Switzerland's already world-standard governance regime

Kyung Taek Jung and Hwa Soo Chung of Kim & Chang assess the steps Korea has taken to curb corruption within conglomerates and bring its corporate governance regime up to world standards

Leonard Birmingham of Harney Westwood & Riegels compares the approach of the new BVI Business Companies Act with that of its predecessor and wonders whether the BVI is doing enough to balance investor protection and company profitability

Paul Lee of Hermes Investment Management explains why openness should arise naturally from a fund manager's duty to its own clients

Central American overview

Corporate governance has never been as important as it is now. The headlines from financial scandals may be fading for the moment, but the reforms that emerged in response to corporate malpractice remain. The need for good advice has grown quickly as public companies get used to their new burdens of responsibility. As jurisdictions such as the US set the trend for restructuring the ways that corporations can function, the ripple effect has seen dozens of other countries revamp their own corporate governance requirements.

Simon Wong of McKinsey & Company looks at the choices facing policymakers when setting governance rules pros and cons of laws versus codes

Richard Fleck, Malcolm Lombers, Lindsay Robertson and Ian Brown explain some of the practical issues when structuring a consortium bid