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Stock exchange proposals could make new listings in Hong Kong more costly as sponsors grapple with additional regulatory burdens, explains Pansy Wong

The Swiss stock exchange plans to change its listing rules to attract issuers unhappy with the increased compliance costs associated with the EU's recently passed Prospectus and Transparency Directives.

If Korea wants to attract foreign expertise it must be possible to protect directors who will soon face a slew of securities-related lawsuits, say Jong Han Kim, Neil Torpey, John A Reding and James Wareham

Adam Glass surveys the prospects for securitization lawyers and their clients as the market searches for the next innovation

On March 9 2004 the president of the Russian Federation adopted Decree 314 On the System and Structure of Federal Executive Authorities (the Decree). The Decree, which came into force on March 11 2004, and the recent Presidential Decree 649 of May 20 2004 amending the Decree, provide for the general restructuring of the system of federal executive authorities and increase the effectiveness of the new federal executive authorities system. The Decree abolished most federal bodies and delegated their functions to newly organized ones.

The Swiss Federal Statute on Mergers, Spin-offs, Conversions and Transfers of Assets (the Merger Law) entered into effect on July 1 2004. It offers companies more flexibility but also creates more risk. Although the Merger Law focuses only on the four above-mentioned types of transactions, it applies not only to corporations and other legal entities but also to partnerships, sole proprietorships, pension funds and, to a certain extent, public institutions.

Société Générale has structured Australia's first securitization backed by dealer floorplan receivables. Tessa Hoser analyzes the deal and compares it with US structures

Greg Terry: joining Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley has hired Greg Terry from Lovells to become managing director and general counsel for Asia Pacific, a position vacant for the past three months since David Graham left for UBS.

Attention in the US may be trained on the approaching Google initial public offering (IPO), but a fresh round of equity deals has kept a number of law firms busy in recent weeks.

John Lutz and David Taub of McDermott Will & Emery A team of six lawyers has left Clifford Chance's New York office to take up residence with US rival McDermott Will & Emery. The team, which consists of three partners, one of counsel and two associates, are all focused on derivatives and structured products advice.