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  • Companies should not be forced to rotate the firms they use to prepare their accounts, according to a US government report. The General Accounting Office (GAO), commissioned to look into the effects of requiring companies to change their audit firms every few years, reported that it could not be sure that the benefits of doing so would outweigh the costs.
  • Companies listed on London's Alternative Investment Market will be exempt from Europe's costly Prospectus Directive under plans drawn up by the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
  • HBOS has shown that issuing covered bonds is possible without specialized legislation. Local laws will determine whether Asia’s banks can follow suit. By Richard Mazzochi and Abigail Rath
  • The Swiss parliament enacted an amendment to the Federal Act on Cartels on June 20 2003. The deadline has passed for a referendum against the amendment so it will most likely enter into force on April 1 2004.
  • As the technology industry recovers, venture capitalists are softening their investment demands, but only a little. Megan Murphy reports
  • Lawyers have created a new template for Thai offerings on the government's sale of around 26% of its stake in Krung Thai Bank, the country's second largest bank.
  • The credit derivatives market should amend its products rather than seeking to shape the corporate restructuring process, says Martin Hughes
  • Eurostar: the new high-speed rail link Freshfields and Herbert Smith have helped install the financing for the second phase of the high-speed rail link from London to the Channel Tunnel.
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has refined a structure that could provide insurance companies with new capital raising options, advising on the first securitization in the life insurance industry for five years.
  • Slaughter and May continued its work representing Punch Taverns in November, advising on the restructuring of the company's two previous securitizations to merge them into a single deal. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer acted for the banks, RBS and Citigroup.