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  • Government representatives have agreed on an international convention governing which law applies to cross-border securities transactions. Christophe Bernasconi and Richard Potok, who have spearheaded the negotiations over the past two-and-a-half years, explain the need for the Convention and how it will benefit the securities industry
  • The launch of Korea's first hybrid tier one issue has opened the way for what some observers predict could be a $3 billion market over the next 12 months.
  • Hong Kong has joined the growing number of jurisdictions where synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) are becoming popular.
  • A group set up by the EU to advise on the regulation of financial analysts has met for the first time.
  • Ashurst Morris Crisp has advisedthe arranger of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club's securitization, the biggest and most complex UK football financing to date.
  • A senior SEC official has again indicated that foreign issuers will not win exemptions from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,calling local law differences "details".
  • Regulators in emerging markets still lack the resources and expertise to enforce best corporate governance practices. Private dispute resolution may provide the solution for minority shareholders. By Andrew Crooke
  • Keeping Sarbanes-Oxley in perspective reveals that the new requirements should not discourage smaller non-US companies from listing in New York. Robert DeLaMater, Michael DeSombre and Melissa You of Sullivan & Cromwell argue that some Asian stock exchanges impose restrictions that create more practical burdens than those threatened by the new US legislation
  • As the EU published a revolutionary proposal to create a single market for investment firms on November 18, the European Commission came under attack from industry lobbyists and lawyers. Michael Evans reports on the last-minute changes to the plans thrashed out behind closed doors
  • Two recent court rulings in Hong Kong that expand the powers of provisional liquidators will assist in restructurings. And not before time, says Tom Vaizey of Johnson Stokes & Master