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  • In May the English Privy Council considered how a Bangladeshi scheme to reconstruct part of BCCI's business affected a creditor’s claims in the Cayman Islands. Brian Cain of Richards Butler says the result shows what can happen when a creditor gets stuck between two conflicting insolvency regimes
  • Japanese companies face a growing threat from hostile takeovers. Andrew Crooke asks whether US-style corporate defence techniques can be applied in Tokyo
  • Steven Kargman continues his series of articles advising creditors and debtors on managing debt restructurings outside of developed insolvency regimes
  • Whitney Debevoise and David Orta of Arnold & Porter look at recent rulings on class action suits that followed Argentina's bond default, and argue that negotiated restructurings are the best way to resolve sovereign debt disputes
  • Ben Maiden reports from New York on how banks are preparing to cope with new accounting rules for special purpose entities
  • The EU official in charge of new legislation on European takeovers has criticized member states that are threatening the future of a draft directive aimed at making cross-border deals easier.
  • New definitions on how to change credit default swaps when a reference entity restructures are an improvement on the past, but not by much. Patrick Clancy of Shearman & Sterling LLP explains why not
  • Some asset-backed deals will still prove difficult under the UK's new insolvency regime despite broad exceptions to make securitizations feasible. Richard Ambery of Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw looks at how the treatment of loans to be securitized might change
  • Grant McCrea of Dewey Ballantine explains how France's Credit Agricole Indosuez successfully brought action in New York over disputed currency swap contracts with Russia's National Reserve Bank
  • The Fair Trade Commission of Korea (FTC) has amended its guidelines for filing an antitrust clearance/business combination report, with effect from July 1 2003.