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Linklaters has advised Deutsche Bank on securitizing public-private partnership (PPP) road construction contracts in Portugal.

Disclosure rules are forcing issuers to consider listing outside the EU, reports Michael Evans. Switzerland's SWX sees a chance to win business from its European rivals

The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published a policy update to push the brokerage and funds industries towards a more transparent way of dealing with commissions and other fees.

New rules that simplify offers to professional investors are welcome, but Hong Kong's shake-up of securities laws falls short on other counts. By Andrew Malcolm

Bryant Edwards: high-yield chair Latham & Watkins partner Bryant Edwards has been appointed chairman of The European High Yield Association (EHYA). Edwards is a corporate partner at the firm specializing in high-yield and mezzanine finance. He is joined on the EHYA board by three new directors: James Amine, co-head of global leveraged finance at Credit Suisse First Boston; Eric Capp, managing director of high-yield capital markets at JP Morgan in London; and Tim Flynn, managing director and co-head of leveraged finance at Goldman Sachs in London. The EHYA was set up in 2000 to promote knowledge about non-investment grade debt instruments and work towards standardizing products.

In the months since the controversial Welcome Break restructuring, bondholders have been analyzing multi-tiered security packages of corporate securitizations with extra care. Bodo Schaar explains how documentation should evolve

Ben Maiden looks at proposals that could change the way issuers tap the US financial markets

After the latest amendment to the Securities and Exchange Law of Japan, more types of legal interest will come under the protection of the Securities Law. The Securities Law defines regulated securities as government bonds, local bonds, corporate bonds, stock certificates or other securities that represent certain interests as specified by a government ordinance. The legal interests represented by those securities will be deemed securities even if certificates are not issued for them. Also, certain legal interests that are not represented by certificates will be deemed securities and will be subject to various regulations under the Securities Law.

The new ministerial cabinet of Indonesia, headed by the president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has announced its objectives for its first 100 days in power.

Hong Kong is one of the few common law jurisdictions to still operate a deeds registration system for recording interests in land and property, rather than a system of registration of title. In a property transaction, a solicitor has to review the deeds for at least the past 15 years to establish title, unlike a system of registered title, where the register itself gives the evidence of ownership and interests in the property.