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Finland: mergers and acquisitions

Finnish shareholders need better squeeze-out guidelines Finnish law provides little help on determining the right price for minority shares in squeeze-out procedures. By Tarja Wist and Charlotta Waselius of Waselius & Wist

December 03 2003

Sweden: securities

Sweden sharpens takeover rules and listing requirements Sweden is strengthening its stockmarket regulations, explain Klaes Edhall, Jan Darlin, Charlotta Grähs and Eva Kanyuk, of Mannheimer Swartling

December 03 2003

Sweden: intellectual property

Intellectual property as financial security Gabriel Lidman and Per Victor, both of Advokatfirman Cederquist, give a Swedish perspective on the value of intellectual property rights as funding tools

December 03 2003

Norway: securities

Norway softens laws to boost new issues Norway has updated its securities laws in an effort to increase market activity. Sverre Tyrhaug of Thommessen outlines the developments

December 03 2003

Sweden: tax

Swedish limited liability companies primed for use in corporate structures Jens Baastrup of Hamilton & Co discusses the value of Swedish limited liability companies as holding companies in international corporate structures

December 03 2003

Japan

In October 2003 the Ministry of Justice published a draft outline to amend many provisions of the Commercial Code. The proposed amendments affect the authorization of bond issues and the resignation and liability of commissioned companies for bondholders.

December 01 2003

Weil Gotshal advises on Poland's first international securitization

Dutch retail company Eastbridge has closed the first Polish securitization to be sold internationally.

December 01 2003

First China deal under new M&A rules nears completion

Motorola will soon finalize an asset-for-shares swap with a Chinese chipmaker in what will be the first deal completed under eight-month-old rules governing M&A between foreign and domestic companies.

December 01 2003

New offerings bring holiday cheer

US equity lawyers had reason to be grateful as they headed home for the Thanksgiving holiday. Late October saw a flurry of initial public offerings (IPOs) and as IFLR went to press the markets were bracing for one of their busiest weeks in the past two years.

December 01 2003

The month in a minute

It emerged that the EU's Prospectus Directive, published in November, restricts non-EU issuers of equity, equity-linked or low denomination debt securities in the EU to a single regulator, with immediate effect. The Directive will permanently tie issuers to the state regulator of their next issuance in the EU. Issuers that make a wrong decision could find themselves locked into using a regulator with less experience than the company would like.

December 01 2003

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