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  • A new report commissioned by UK regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA) shows compliance costs have risen since the Authority took control 18 months ago and that using external lawyers to fulfil compliance requirements is inefficient.
  • In early March 2003, the president of Ukraine signed into law the long-awaited new Civil and Commercial Codes, passed by the Parliament of Ukraine on January 16 2003. The new Civil Code replaces the effective 1963 Civil Code of the Ukrainian SSR, while the commercial code is essentially a new concept for Ukrainian legislation. Both codes will come into effect on January 1 2004.
  • It took until the start of June for the first SEC-registered American depositary receipt (ADR) offering from Asia to come to market.
  • Allen & Overy has become the first international firm other than Clifford Chance to win a mandate advising the arrangers of an Italian state securitization.
  • Morrison & Foerster is benefiting from a trend of German companies selling to US private investors, including work on the biggest German private placement in the US yet.
  • Singapore has shifted from merit-based regulation to a disclosure-based regime. But an IFLR straw poll shows that professional advisers need more guidance to help make this work in practice. Andrew Crooke reports
  • By Lars-Olof Svensson of Wistrand Advokatbyrå
  • Foreign parties can now buy domestic companies for the first time. Bai Wei and Ma Zhou of Jingtian & Gongcheng explain the options available to investors and what they must do to get the deal approved
  • Last year China received around $50 billion in foreign direct investment, more than any other country. Yet the market, with a population in excess of 1.2 billion, is still largely untapped.
  • Foreign banks face legal and regulatory uncertainties when they invest in China. Despite the government's reform efforts, more needs to be done to ease existing restrictions on investment, speed up liberalization and strengthen the financial system. IFLR asked some of the leading players how this can be achieved