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  • A catering company introduced the US financial markets to a new product last month when it launched an innovative combined debt-equity offering.
  • It was the second week of December when the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 10,000 for the first time in 18 months. The number itself may not bear gifts, but breaking the psychological barrier was as an early Christmas present for the markets.
  • Two initial public offerings (IPOs) in December underlined both the continuing success of Chinese companies and the returning appetite among US investors for foreign equity. Both also saw welcome mandates for the China branches of several US and UK law firms.
  • China must ensure turf wars between government ministries don't lead to different treatment of foreign and domestic companies, says Zhao Yong of Squire Sanders & Dempsey
  • The Swiss legislature recently completed work on a new statute governing mergers, demergers, conversions of companies, and the transfer of assets with or without related liabilities. Most of these topics were not addressed in the Swiss Code of Obligations and thus many of the existing rules relating to mergers and demergers are based on case law or on legal principles developed over time by practitioners. Most of the code law provisions that did exist will now be replaced in their entirety.
  • Competition in Russia's financial market is regulated by the Federal Law No 117-FZ, which came into effect on December 29 2001. It governs both Russian or foreign (operating in Russia) banking, insurance and leasing companies, non-state pension funds, professional participants of the securities market and other entities rendering financial services.
  • Italian entities acting as borrowers or issuers of financial instruments in international financial transactions with foreign EU counterparties often accept to submit any controversy that may arise to the jurisdiction of a foreign court located in an EU member state.
  • Overseas Corporate Bodies (OCBs) have been de-recognized as a separate class of investor entity in India and will now be treated the same as any other foreign incorporated company. This decision follows a review by India's Reserve Bank of the investment activities of OCBs, based on the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Security Market Scams.
  • The National Association of Securities Dealers has taken the latest step aimed at stamping out abusive allocations of shares. Charles Gittleman and Russell Sacks explain
  • ANZ Banking Group's purchase of The National Bank of New Zealand was the largest trans-Tasman transaction yet, the largest New Zealand M&A deal and involved the largest Australian rights issue ever, at A$3.6 billion ($2.68 billion).