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Skadden Arps and Davis Polk act on PSI Energy deal

The French government has promised to reform the country's outmoded bankruptcy laws after claiming the international banking community left French engineering group Alstom to sink because the laws make lenders liable for all debts if they fund a non-viable company.

France has changed its consumer code to ensure usury law does not apply to high-yield bonds, resolving legal uncertainty.

The American Bar Association (ABA) has voted to give lawyers more freedom to hand over privileged information if their corporate clients break the law.

Foreign insurers are increasingly making strategic investments in China. W Seung Chong of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Satoshi Naganuma of Millea Asia discuss the key issues to consider

France recently overhauled its financial regulatory system, but stopped short of following the US's tough tactics towards insider trading. Eric Cafritz and James Gillespie of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson compare the different approaches

David Skeel, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that class action remains a vital, if flawed, way of dealing with sovereign debt distress

The Turkish Capital Markets Board (CMB) recently issued several key new communiqués alongside new additions to the Turkish securities regulations, such as the shelf registration system. Communiqué Serial IV No 29 on the Principles of Cumulative Voting in the General Assemblies of Corporations Subject to the Capital Markets Law was issued in February 2003.

Exit consents have been hailed as an important tool in the battle to avoid Argentina-style sovereign debt defaults. But Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati explain that lawyers must take a close look at the bond terms if they want to ensure their restructuring plans will work in practice

On June 17 2003 Saudi Arabia's Council of Ministers passed a resolution approving the long awaited Capital Markets Law (CML), which - once it has been signed by King Fahd or the Crown Prince - will be effective 180 days from its announcement in the Official Gazette (Umm Al Qura). Saudi Arabia does not have a physical stock exchange, although shares in Saudi public companies are traded electronically through local banks under regulation by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), the Kingdom's Central Bank. The electronic exchange (Tadawul) and the Saudi Shareholding Registry will be transferred to the new Saudi Arabian Exchange Commission (SEC). The new market will be renamed the Securities and Exchange Market, which will be established as a joint stock company.