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  • Paul Weiffenbach assesses proposed reforms affecting asset-backed deals
  • The Federal Act on International Insolvency Law (Federal Law Gazette 2003/36) implemented Directive 2001/24/EC on the reorganization and winding up of credit institutions (Directive 2001/24/EC). Several provisions were inserted in the Austrian Bankruptcy Code (Konkursordnung-KO) and the Austrian Banking Act (Bankwesengesetz-BWG).
  • Rating agency Standard & Poor's is issuing new ratings on the chances of lenders recovering their capital in the event of a default on a European secured loan.
  • Downgraded: Sainsbury's sold US subsidiary without needing consent Investors should be wary when buying bonds in companies vulnerable to leveraged buyouts because of the weakness of bondholders' covenant protection, according to Fitch Ratings.
  • Relinquishing power: the UK has bowed to EU rulings The UK government will redeem its so-called golden shares in Britain's five biggest energy companies in the wake of a series of rulings by the European Court of Justice that the special share arrangements violate EU law.
  • Legal harmonization is welcome. But practical systems for getting information to investors could do more to encourage a European wide capital market, says Brian McCall
  • New rules exempting non-US banks from insider lending restrictions came into force last month.
  • To avoid the domino effect of a corporate failure, Australia may become the first common law jurisdiction to enact legislation depriving claimants of the right to uncapped damages. By Tessa Hoser, Nicholas Seddon and Paul Jenkins
  • Norway's Findexa will be the first company to issue high-yield dividend shares, known in the US as income depositary securities (IDSs), to Europe later this month.
  • Three banking associations have published guidance clarifying how firms should comply with new UK rules governing conflicts of interest on securities offerings.