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  • The UK's High Court has ruled that German bank West LB must honour a letter of credit issued to a special purpose vehicle used by JP Morgan Chase and Enron for commodities deals.
  • Linklaters has lost a securitization partner to Sidley Austin Brown & Wood's relentless expansion in the London structured finance market.
  • The resurgence of mergers and acquisitions activity in the US this year is increasingly driven by private equity firms as was the case on several deals last month. Such firms are appearing behind an increasing number of deals involving companies they control.
  • Russia's Gazprom has successfully securitized over $1 billion of future gas exports, despite a local risk climate best described as uncertain and a problematic legal regime.
  • The UK's Financial Services Authority is investigating Citigroup's unusual sale and buyback activities in the government bond market. French and German regulators are also examining the trades.
  • US banks that support ABCP programmes are preparing for life under new capital requirements. James Croke and Peter Manbeck explain
  • Questions remain over how effective SEC proposals to register hedge fund advisers will be in preventing fraud, say Mark Bergman, Yvonne Chan and Marco Masotti
  • German banks are looking with increasing urgency at ways to rid themselves of their portfolios of non-performing loans, but legal hurdles remain, say Oliver Kessler and Melanie Schlage
  • The revival of the French equity markets is putting the country's untested initial public offering rules on trial. Andrew Bernstein and Valérie Lemaitre make the initial assessment
  • A new Companies Act is proposed to replace the existing Companies Act of 1956. The new legislation aims to simplify and be more responsive to current situations, but some aspects of the concept paper are unlikely to be conducive to corporate and commercial expectations.