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  • A political compromise prevented the creation of a genuine one-stop shop merger filing system in Europe. The new procedure for pre-notification referrals of merger cases is burdensome, but the benefits of the one-stop shop can make it worthwhile. Romina Polley and Robert Schulz report on how companies are using the new system
  • Housing problems in Turkey have increased as a result of overpopulation, migration from rural areas to cities, and high rental rates combined with unlicensed settlements. Turkey has been struggling with unplanned urbanization and demand for about 300,000 new residences each year. However, housing business in general is expected to expand with the decrease of inflation and interest rates, the support of recent economic developments, housing financing by banks, and the mortgage banking system.
  • Independent investigations are now a popular tool for corporations in crisis. Tom Reid, John Banes, Luigi De Ghenghi and Sonia Garner, who investigated Royal Dutch Shell Group’s recategorization of its oil reserves, explain why
  • The government has raised sectoral the cap for foreign direct investment in telecommunications from 49% to 74%. The decision benefits services such as basic, cellular, unified access services, national and international long distance, V-SAT, public mobile radio trunked services, global mobile personal communication services and other value-added services.
  • Woong-Soon Song, Tong-Gun Lee and Robert Young explain how a bitter takeover battle brought about changes to takeover rules that will soon come into force
  • BUPA: keeping its finances healthy BUPA Finance in December 2004 issued £330 million ($621 million) in subordinated perpetual bonds. The issue by the UK healthcare provider is the first deal involving upper Tier 2 bonds to give the issuer unlimited discretion to defer interest payments. Slaughter and May advised BUPA Finance and BUPA Insurance, while Allen & Overy advised HSBC and ABN AMRO as lead managers.
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission has endured a difficult few years. Criticized at home for what some claimed was a failure to prevent corporate scandals such as Enron, it has also faced challenges from activist state attorneys-general and been blamed for what others see as over-regulation. Abroad, corporates continue to lobby against what is perceived as US regulatory overreach.
  • Germany's financial regulator has proposed guidelines explaining how public companies should interpret the increased disclosure and market abuse obligations created by German implementation of the EU's Market Abuse Directive in November 2004.
  • Adam Glass, securitization specialist at Linklaters in New York, introduces an occasional series on partners' personal experiences in corporate finance and what it takes to succeed (or fail) in their practice area of choice