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  • Dutch retail company Eastbridge has closed the first Polish securitization to be sold internationally.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Implementing Basel II in the US will have far-reaching implications for credit derivatives. Conrad Bahlke and Robert Lewin explain how
  • The synthetic resecuritization market is booming, but worries remain about the regulatory treatment of many products. Paul Forrester explains
  • Football's governing body has switched the risk of World Cup cancellation to investors, even in the event of a terror attack. David Trott and Grant Jenkins explain how
  • A rare synthetic securitization in non-Japan Asia will encourage other banks to transfer risk and free up capital. By Balbir Bindra, David Zack and Sarwar Ahmad
  • From the beginning of December, non-EU issuers of equity, equity-linked or low denomination debt securities in the EU will be permanently restricted as to where they can apply for approval of their prospectus.
  • The European Commission has resurrected a 19-year-old project to simplify cross-border mergers, while a new transatlantic argument has flared over the Takeover Directive.