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  • The Bond Market Association (TBMA) has published guidelines for trading in speculative distressed bonds, usually securities issued by companies in or near default.
  • May 2004 saw Europe's big bang in the area of competition law, with the modernization of competition law enforcement and changes to merger regulation and rules for technology transfer. At the same time, 10 new member states joined the Union, bringing them under the EU's competition regime.
  • Changes to French laws affecting public-private-partnerships will bring greater certainty for investors and encourage more innovative deals, explain Jacques Bouillon and Sandra Lagumina
  • Eurex US has become the first overseas investment exchange in four years to obtain recognized status under the UK's new regime. Barnabas Reynolds and Thomas Donegan ask why so few exchanges have applied
  • O'Melveny & Myers and Ropes & Gray advised on the latest US-Canadian corporate acquisition. US phone company Verizon Communications announced that it had agreed to sell its Canadian directory operations to private equity firm Bain Capital for $1.54 billion. Ropes & Gray advised client Bain, which, like the law firm, is headquartered in Boston. Newcomb Stillwell and Howard Glazer were the firm's lead lawyers on the deal. Greg Patti ran a team from O'Melveny's New York office that is advising Verizon.
  • UK regulators: seeking useful changes in the bond markets The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) is launching a new round of bond market scrutiny with a roundtable and possible review of regulation.
  • India's largest initial public offering shows how far market standards in underwriting have advanced. Yet regulators feel there is still room for improvement. By Cyril Shroff and Rahul Guptan
  • Outsourcing in an industry as highly regulated as financial services creates its own set of difficulties, explain Jonathan Herbst and Mathew Rutter
  • Hong Kong's securities regulator faces a tough job to convince the market that settling certain disciplinary cases without an admission of liability is wise. Andrew Crooke reports
  • Under Delaware law, directors can be liable if they fail to get a fair deal for shareholders when companies go private. David Leinwand and David Moss examine two cases with contrasting outcomes for the defendants