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  • Blue-chip European companies made impressive improvements to their corporate governance in 2003, according to a report by an international shareholder consulting group.
  • 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
  • The scope of UK implementing regulations for the Collateral Directive is wider than expected, much to the delight of banks. Benedict James and Will Nevin report on the main provisions
  • The complaints committee of the Dutch Securities Institute (DSI) recently delivered its judgment on a number of disputes concerning a share lease scheme sold by Legiolease. On February 5 2003, some investors were awarded a relief of the largest part of their remaining debt with Legiolease.
  • 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.
  • Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has advised the first French company to launch an initial public offering (IPO) for 18 months and the first French technology company to come to market in three years.
  • A court decision last week on competition referrals eased fears that UK M&A deals would take longer and be more expensive to complete.
  • The bond markets must move quickly to improve transparency, said a leading US regulator last month.
  • LVMH: awarded €30 million in initial damages A French court has set a possible precedent for companies to sue analysts for publishing negative research.