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  • Former Clifford Chance lawyer Laura O'Neill joined the corporate department at SJ Berwin last month. O'Neill was one of the lead partners to advise Banco Santander on its acquisition of Abbey National. Her other clients include Volvo and Accenture. O'Neill joined Clifford Chance in 1996 and become a partner in 2002.
  • On January 28 2005, the Luxembourg government adopted a Bill of Law to implement the EU Prospectus Directive, which is due to be implemented by June 30 2005.
  • 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.
  • Christopher Stephens tells how Argentina's IMPSA steered its investment in a power project in the Philippines through three restructurings to an innovative exit
  • 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.
  • Ben Maiden reports on how Argentina cleared the final legal hurdles to its bond exchange
  • In one of the first musharaka sukuks (joint ventures) of its kind, Denton Wilde Sapte advised Standard Bank and Dubai Islamic Bank in a deal with Dubai Metals and Commodities Authority (DMCC). The deal gave the investors the opportunity to receive periodic payments in gold bullion instead of cash for the first time in a public Islamic finance capital markets transaction. DMCC was advised by Afridi & Angell on Dubai law and by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer regarding English law.
  • Korea's new insolvency law gives financial institutions the certainty they need in their secured lending transactions to close out positions with defaulting counterparties and enforce rights to collateral. By Andrew Crooke
  • The Netherlands has published plans to implement the EU Takeover Directive and controversially dismantle some of the defences traditionally available to Dutch companies. By Hugo Oppelaar and Alexander Kaarls
  • Stringent public offer rules make public-to-private deals in France more challenging than in other EU jurisdictions. But changes to takeover rules could make structuring deals easier. Olivier Assant and Benjamin Kanovitch explain