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The House of Lords has reversed Siebe Gorman, the landmark case on establishing a fixed charge, meaning that there is no longer a simple way for a clearing bank to take an effective fixed charge on book debts. By Geoffrey Yeowart

Simon Tortell explains the reforms Malta must make to ensure compliance with the Directive

Despite missing the July 1 deadline, France is now putting the finishing touches to its implementation, says Marc-Etienne Sébire

On June 24 2005, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) was converted into a public limited company. Two royal decrees were published:

Regulators and rating agencies are taking a close look at the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) market and its participants. Simon Hart assesses whether regulatory concerns are transitory or more deep-rooted

Davis Polk & Wardwell hired its first non-US law partner. The firm hired French corporate lawyer Arnaud Peres from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris. Said John Ettinger, managing partner of Davis Polk: "France is a key market for us. Arnaud's excellent legal skills, market reputation and client service philosophy perfectly match our goals and practice and will allow us to take advantage of the significant business opportunities we see in the French market. In the near future, we anticipate building out our Paris team with additional French partners and associates." The firm's strategy is usually to practice only US law while partnering with the best independent firms for local law advice. But the firm has made an exception in Paris to answer the needs of French clients, who apparently want their law firms to practice more than just US law.

The first EU equity deals complying with the Prospectus Directive have allayed fears that the new rules would complicate share offerings. By James Rice

Over the past decade, Greek arbitration law has developed to meet international standards. Nikolaos Panou and Panos Yiannopoulos of Kyriakides Georgopoulos Law Firm track its progress

Jay Gould and Zeeshan Ahmedani assess the impact of the NASD's new rule on fairness opinions and warn that the issue might still need to be resolved in the courts

The amendments to the Foreign Exchange Transaction Regulation of Korea (FETR) took effect as of July 1 2005.