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  • With a view to further protecting investors in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) recently published a Consultation Paper on Regulation of Sponsors and Independent Financial Advisors.
  • Merger activity in Austria is booming as global companies search for bargain assets in central Europe. Michael Evans reports
  • The Investment Services Directive (ISD), now the subject of high level debate by politicians in Brussels, will shape the structure of Europe's capital markets for years to come. But bankers say plans to force brokers to quote prices openly to the market could lead them to take their business outside the EU in search of more bank-friendly share trading regimes abroad. IFLR brought together a group of London-based regulators, lawyers and industry representatives to discuss the issues
  • Securitization specialists have warned bankers and lawyers not to ignore the profound impact that the new Basel Accord will have on the structured finance industry.
  • The opening of China's securities markets to foreign brokers may only force domestic companies to improve corporate governance if restrictions on investors are also relaxed. Andrew Crooke reports
  • Medco Energi's recent high yield bond deal combined a simultaneous new issue with an exchange offer and consent solicitation for the first time in Indonesia. By Tim Steinert of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Joan Janssen of Freshfields Drew & Napier
  • The structure of the funding package for Pusan New Port has set a benchmark for Korean infrastructure projects. It is the first time both foreign banks and a foreign sponsor have been involved in a financing in Korea, and the first time that lenders have taken on the construction and market risk of a project. By Simon Black and Geoff O'Dea of Allen & Overy, and Ick-Ryol Huh and Seong Soo Kim of Kim & Chang
  • Reinsurance broker Benfield raised £157 million ($261 million) from its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange in June, bringing welcome fee income to the advising firms equity practices.
  • Baker & McKenzie, Clifford Chance and Walder Wyss & Partner have advised on Switzerland's first-ever commercial mortgage-backed securitization (CMBS).
  • An agreement to create a Sino-foreign insurance joint venture with a single overseas investor will be an important test of China's investment laws.