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The Indonesian parliament has approved a new Act on Bankruptcy and Debt Moratorium. Among the various provisions stipulated in the Act, new provisions on the requirements to approve a composition plan in debt moratorium stand out.

The Austrian parliament recently introduced a draft bill amending certain provisions of the Austrian Stock Exchange Act (Börsegesetz - BörseG) and the Austrian Securities Supervision Act (Wertpapieraufsichtsgesetz - WAG). It will implement, among others, EU Directive 2003/6/EC on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse) (the Directive) and repeal the existing framework (§§ 48a to 48c BörseG) in favour of a more elaborate regime.

The outgoing European Commission has proposed a directive to make it easier for public companies to alter the size, structure and ownership of their capital.

An elite group of five firms with Linklaters at its head has profited most from the gradual recovery of international equity markets. Rob Mannix reports

Norwich Union in October raised £200 million secured against future business profits, showing an increasing willingness among UK insurers to use securitization as a funding tool.

British property company Land Securities is attempting to cut its debt-servicing costs with an innovative hybrid securitization platform that uses a sliding scale of covenants.

The Capital Markets Law (CML) came into effect on February 24 2004. The regulatory structure created under the CML includes a new Capital Markets Authority (CMA) empowered to regulate the issuance of and trading in securities and the establishment of a physical stock exchange, called the Saudi Capital Market. Saudi Arabia does not have a physical stock exchange. Rather, shares in Saudi Arabian public joint-stock companies are traded by local banks using the Tadawul electronic exchange under the regulatory authority of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA).

Two Spanish and three international law firms have benefited from roles on the initial public offering (IPO) of Spanish company Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte (Cintra), the largest in Spain since 2001.

Network Rail: borrowing to fund development Linklaters, Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance have all won roles on UK rail operator Network Rail's planned £20 billion ($37 billion) multicurrency note programme.

An elite group of firms benefited from the gradual recovery of international equity markets last year, as revealed by IFLR's annual survey. The apparent improvement in fortunes of these firms, however, hides a trend with potentially worrying implications for legal advisers - the shift away from US-listed deals fully registered with the SEC. The burden of corporate governance legislation is deterring foreign issuers from seeking the US listings that used to be a badge of respectability in the international capital markets. "Sarbanes-Oxley has killed that market," says Nick Eastwell, head of capital markets at UK firm Linklaters.