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  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe strengthened its real estate finance and securitization practices recently in Tokyo after hiring senior Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom specialist Mark Brooks as a partner.
  • An appeal tribunal decision threatens to increase costs and legal uncertainty for mergers and acquisitions in the UK.
  • The UK's Financial Services Authority has officially ruled that banks can no longer issue tax-deductible securities that will qualify as core tier one capital.
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken the first steps on the road to a regulatory overhaul of US mutual funds.
  • Non-EU companies with securities listed in the EU could face bills of up to $10 million after European finance ministers decided to force them to comply with international accounting standards (IAS) by 2006.
  • Poison pill takeover defences will remain part of Europe's corporate landscape after EU governments backed a weakened version of the EU Takeover Directive.
  • Several developments in Ontario securities law, taken together, have the potential to substantially increase the exposure of directors and officers to personal liability. These are:
  • Morgan Stanley has overturned the scepticism of rating agencies by securitizing commercial mortgages in Belgium, France and Ireland in a true-sale deal.
  • A deal between European finance ministers on Europe's Transparency Directive means foreign issuers could face bills of up to $10 million as they struggle to comply with international accounting standards (IAS). All issuers of listed securities in the EU will have to publish reports using IAS when the accounting rules come into force in 2006. Earlier on in the month ministers voted out a requirement in the Directive for quarterly reporting from corporates operating in Europe.
  • 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.