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Simon Davies, Linklaters and Agnes Nardi, 3HK Linklaters' lawyers spent 2003 chalking up many firsts in Asia. Equity deals that stood out included those in south-east Asia for Astro All Asia Networks, Bank Mandiri, Fortune REIT, SingPost, Krung Thai Bank and Bangkok Bank, and in China for PICC. The firm's equity-linked tally included innovative work in China with Beijing Datang, in Singapore with SingTech, in Malaysia with Genting, and in India with Tata Motors. Linklaters showed the strength of its debt practice with roles on the record-breaking Hutchison Whampoa and Singapore Power offerings, and the firm was influential in Ford Motor Credit's retail offering winning approval in Hong Kong. In M&A, Linklaters acted on the Japan Telecom-Ripplewood and SingTel-Yellow Pages leveraged buyouts, and the creation of the inaugural Sino-foreign joint venture fund management company for ABN AMRO. Project finance firsts included the Pusan New Port, Guangdong LNG and Mindanao power deals.

Daiwa Securities Group has issued the first public and rated collateralized debt obligation (CDO) backed exclusively by equity default swaps.

Leading lawyers, bankers and in-house counsel from Europe and Asia gathered at IFLR's annual awards dinners in London and Hong Kong in March to celebrate their achievements during 2003

Law firms Ashurst and Speechly Bircham have advised on the latest innovation in the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) market.

Non-banks will face an even tougher struggle to offer banking services under a bill passed by the US Congress.

Commercial First is securitizing a different kind of business loan Clifford Chance's securitization practice has helped Commercial First Mortgages introduce a new asset class to the UK securitization market.

The House of Lords has reversed a 30-year-old decision A House of Lords ruling has ensured floating charge holders will not have to pay liquidators' costs and expenses, reversing a 30-year-old Court of Appeal decision.

A court ruling has threatened the enforceability of New York's model statute on securitization of tobacco revenues. Nicolas Weill of Moody's, New York, explains

Germany's parliament has amended the German Mortgage Bank Act to increase the legal certainty of security for investors in covered bonds.

The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to use a blend of regulatory reform and industry initiatives on improved disclosure to reform questionable soft commission and bundled services practices.