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  • David Lindsey and James Hosking explain why the US Supreme Court may have opened the door for parties to obtain discovery from US courts in aid of international arbitration
  • There are four distinct laws governing debtor rehabilitation and bankruptcy in Korea: the Corporate Reorganization Act; the Composition Act; the Bankruptcy Act and the Individual Debtor Rehabilitation Act. In an effort to overhaul the insolvency system, the Korean government has enacted the Debtor Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy Act (the DRBA), which will take effect in April 2006.
  • Under Indonesian bankruptcy law (Law 37 of 2004 on Bankruptcy and Suspension of Debt Repayment) the creditors of a bankrupt debtor are required to meet in a creditors meeting. Within 30 days after the bankruptcy is declared, the supervisory judge determines the date, time and place for the first creditors meeting. The agenda will include debt verification and voting on the composition plan that has been submitted by the bankrupt debtor.
  • In implementing the EU Collateral Directive, France has extended netting possibilities and provided an exception to the general French requirement for a court order or auction when selling a pledged asset. By Pierre Lastenouse
  • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a notification on April 25 2005, granting permission to foreign insurance companies to set up liaison offices in India. However, the activities of these liaison offices are subject to the approval of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDA).
  • Danish law on taking securities does not permit floating charges, or similar pledges or mortgages of an undetermined plurality of assets.
  • Under the WTO concessions, notional majority ownership is possible only in the insurance industry. In fund management, securities and commercial banking, foreign strategic investors in an onshore financial services company need to think harder about the risks and rewards of a notional minority position.
  • Christopher Stephens tells how Argentina's IMPSA steered its investment in a power project in the Philippines through three restructurings to an innovative exit
  • Ben Maiden reports on how Argentina cleared the final legal hurdles to its bond exchange
  • Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Sullivan & Cromwell advised the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on its headline-grabbing acquisition of electronic trading system Archipelago. When completed, the deal will enable the NYSE to become a public company and might spell the end of its 200-year old floor-based auction trading system. O'Melveny & Myers also advised the NYSE with Sullivan & Cromwell representing Archipelago.