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  • Big-ticket M&A work is giving some of the leading corporate practices in North and South America a boost. New York firm Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising cable giant Comcast on its $66 billion hostile bid for the Walt Disney Company. Disney has retained long-term outside counsel Dewey Ballantine and leading M&A firm Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz for its defence.
  • Equity default swaps could bring about a wave of hybrid structures and with them a wave of unfamiliar risks. Paul Cluley and Thomas Jones explain
  • Korea is overhauling its accounting rules by amending the Securities Exchange Act to conform with new international norms as a result of the Enron scandal and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
  • US gambling company MGM Mirage has agreed to buy dog racing and gaming group Wembley for approximately £270 million ($491 million) in cash, ending speculation that continuing litigation against two of Wembley's executives could block its sale.
  • European lawmakers want to establish a registration scheme for rating agencies such as Moody's and Standard & Poor's.
  • Market watchdogs around the world are collaborating to establish a special task force to look at ways to increase bond market transparency and clamp down on the uncontrolled use of offshore financing vehicles.
  • Aendments to Russia's competition law will free small companies from state control but increase scrutiny of the country's oligarchs.
  • US banks and lawyers face confusion about the tests used to determine their liability on securities fraud. Ben Maiden reports from New York
  • Continuing their challenge to the ratable-payment interpretation of pari passu clauses in cross-border debt, Lee C Buchheit and Jeremiah S Pam trace the evolution of the clause to find out what it truly means
  • A new Act allows Swedish mortgage lending institutions to issue covered bonds, providing them the same financing means as their EU counterparts. The Swedish parliament passed the Covered Bonds Act in late December 2003.