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Companies prepare employees for life after retirement Companies in Japan are looking at new investment schemes to ensure employees have enough money in their pension funds when they retire. By Hideki Thurgood Kano and Wakako Sekiyama

Japan offers hope for buyout funds Efforts to improve the legal and regulatory environment for venture capital and other private equity investments in Japan are likely to reward those financial institutions that have remained committed to the market. By Ted Johnson and Yoji Maeda

How to buy shares in Korean companies Joon Park, Chang Sik Hwang and Do Young Kim of Kim & Chang focus on the legal and regulatory environment surrounding investments in Korean companies by means of a share purchase

Prospects and challenges in the European market Investors have weathered a period of restructuring and consolidation. Now the prospects are strong, but so are the challenges. By the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association

New regulations and landmark ruling clarify investment tax Sanjay Khatau Asher and Shraddha Mehta of Crawford Bayley & Co outline India's efforts to eliminate uncertainty about its foreign investment laws

China's 2003 VC Regulation: Prospects for 2004 China updated its rules for foreign invested venture capital funds in early 2003. Robert Woll, Chuck Comey and Scott Jalowayski of Morrison & Foerster explain why reaction to the changes has been ambivalent

After a six-year legislative process, the Austrian Parliament has enacted the Substitution of Equity Act (Eigenkapitalersatz-Gesetz (EKEG)), which will come into force on January 1 2004. The Act deals with the concept of a shareholder loan that replaces equity and is treated as equity (Eigenkapitalersatz) when a company is in financial crisis - a peculiarity of German and Austrian corporate law. In the absence of explicit statutory provisions, the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof (OGH)) has so far applied a modified approach of German law principles to shareholder loans substituting equity (eigenkapitalersetzende Gesellschafterdarlehen).

Several developments in Ontario securities law, taken together, have the potential to substantially increase the exposure of directors and officers to personal liability. These are:

Poison pill takeover defences will remain part of Europe's corporate landscape after EU governments backed a weakened version of the EU Takeover Directive.

Structuring a commercial mortgage-backed deal akin to a whole business securitization was a crucial part of Fosters' strategy in selling its pubs business. Matthew Allchurch explains