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  • Hong Kong securities regulator to toughen stance
    Hong Kong's securities watchdog is looking to crack down even harder on corporate crime and misconduct in 2003, backed by a new regulatory framework, the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO) that will soon take effect.
    March 01 2003
  • EU sets timetable for wide-ranging corporate governance reform
    The EU is set to announce new legislation on disclosure, electronic voting rights and directors' salaries next month but has no plans to draw up a comprehensive corporate governance code for companies in EU's member states.
    March 01 2003
  • The perils of accelerated dealmaking
    More deals than ever are being done with no documentation and little if any due diligence. Are banks taking too many risks? By Rob Mannix
    March 01 2003
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    Pitt signs call to end payment for order flow
    Harvey Pitt: ending on a high note As with many leaders, Securities and Exchange (SEC) chairman Harvey Pitt overcame his lame-duck position in his last days in office to make some final points. In one such move he put the banning of payment for order flows back on the agenda for his successor to look at once he has settled into his Washington DC office.
    March 01 2003
  • Freshfields wins eight awards at IFLR dinner
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer won eight awards, including IFLR European Law Firm of the Year, at International Financial Law Review's awards dinner last night. The UK firm clinched the overall award for its work in capital markets, M&A, project finance and restructuring during 2002.
    March 01 2003
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    Tackling Asia's bad debt
    In an exclusive interview with IFLR, Arthur M Mitchell, the Asian Development Bank's new general counsel, explains how the Bank's commitment to working with the private sector can spur legal reform across the region. Reducing the bad debt burden is top of his list. By Andrew Crooke
    March 01 2003
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    How private equity investors can avoid directors' liability
    Private equity investors are increasingly seeking post-WTO investment opportunities in China, but risk management techniques are essential if the new directors do not want to fall foul of the law. By Michael J Moser and Seung Chong of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hong Kong
    March 01 2003
  • Court rules on Isda close-out calculations
    An Australian court has ruled that the experts consulted to provide quotations for the calculation of a close-out amount under an Isda Master Agreement should have used a valuation method radically different from the one commonly accepted. The decision has implications for the valuation of Isda-based derivatives, says Andrew Fernbach of Mallesons Stephen Jaques
    March 01 2003
  • Saudi Arabia
    In early February, the Supreme Economic Council (SEC) issued a revised Negative List of industries in the Saudi economy in which foreign investment is prohibited. The SEC recently announced that it will permit foreign investment in the following three industrys that appeared on the initial Negative List issued in February 2001: electrical energy distribution services; pipeline transport services; and educational services, including primary, secondary and adult education.
    March 01 2003
  • Ukraine
    A new Act has significantly amended Ukraine's corporate profit tax regime, effectively decreasing the overall tax burden and eliminating many ambiguities thought responsible for conflicts with tax authorities (Act of Ukraine No 349-IV, effective January 1 2003). The main effects of the new Act are as follows:
    March 01 2003
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