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  • Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance have maintained the top positions in Dealogic's end-of-year project finance rankings, but US firms Latham & Watkins and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy are the year's biggest climbers.
  • Canada's mutual funds industry has so far been largely free of the scandals that have rocked its counterpart in the US. Canadian regulators, however, have not been so lucky in avoiding controversy over their handling of the market.
  • Enron: Milbank and Andrews & Kurth deny allegations The lead plaintiff in Enron's largest shareholder class action lawsuit has added two prominent American law firms as defendants.
  • How insolvency and trust reforms will clear a path for securitization Securitization in Japan will flourish once changes to bankruptcy and trust laws remove doubts over judicial interpretation. By Masayuki Okamoto, Shigeru Kaneko and Mark Keeler
  • Overcoming the risks of choosing real estate for investment trusts Real estate investment trusts are being careful not to stunt the young but growing market by buying unsuitable and risky property to add to their portfolio, say Shunpei Tanaka, Kenji Utsumi and Mami Ikebukuro
  • Japanese issuers grapple with Sarbanes-Oxley Following the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, most Japanese reporting companies are taking affirmative steps to comply with the new US corporate governance requirements. By Masahisa Ikeda, Isamu Watson and Satoko Kato
  • Expanding the use of trusts and trust banking in Japan Trusts are being used in increasingly new ways as legal and regulatory developments give practitioners more certainty. By Jeremy Pitts, Shinji Toyohara and Gavin Raftery
  • Japan moves towards allowing squeeze outs of minority shareholders The flexible approach being shown towards Japanese corporate practices means transactions to cash-out minority shareholders are becoming possible. By Gaku Ishiwata
  • Making Japan's high investment targets a reality Without speedy reform and deregulation, and improved laws and simplified procedures for foreign investment, the Japanese government will find it difficult to meet the target it has set itself
  • Searching for exits in a challenging market Fundraising is down for the third year in a row, but private equity houses have adopted more innovative strategies. By Marc Kushner of Debevoise & Plimpton