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With its debut Eurobond listing, Switzerland's stock exchange demonstrated that it is a contender for a share of the $5 trillion market. Michael Evans explains

An SEC enforcement action has reminded issuers that repeating themselves could be costly. Ben Maiden reports

Ben Maiden talks to Ed Greene of Citigroup about the challenges of gatekeeping at the world's largest bank

The Luxembourg law dated June 15 2004 introduced a new form of investment vehicle called a Société d'Investissement en Capital à Risque (SICAR), which is to be used for private equity or venture capital structures.

Ben Maiden reports on proposals designed to modernize securities regulation in Mexico

A new Company Law is expected to replace and substantially change the provisions of the Commercial Code that relate to companies. Certain substantial changes related to the stock system are:

The Greek parliament recently approved Law 3310/2005 on measures to secure transparency and to prevent circumvention upon conclusion of public contracts, which applies to the procedure for the conclusion and performance of public contracts and is known as the Law on Substantial Shareholders. A substantial shareholder for the purposes of the Law is any natural person or legal entity, that: (a) holds 1% of the company's share capital or voting rights; (b) irrespective of its holdings, belongs to the 10 greater shareholders of a company because of its participation in the company's share capital or the number of voting rights that it holds; (c) is entitled to appoint or recall one member of the board of directors; (d) has concluded, either directly or indirectly, contracts with the company that yield income greater that one tenth of the company's gross income in the previous fiscal year.

On March 4 2005, the National Monetary Council (CMN) enacted Resolution 3,265/2005, unifying, effective as of March 14 2005, the two existing foreign exchange markets: the commercial rate exchange market (the commercial market) and the floating rate exchange market (the floating market).

Paul Hastings scoops Parmalat counsel

"This is exactly what Asia was missing and I'm already planning on attending next year." So said a senior in-house lawyer with a global investment bank after the conclusion of the first annual Asian M&A Forum at Hong Kong's Island Shangri-La Hotel on 13 and 14 April.