IFLR is part of Legal Benchmarking Limited, 1-2 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8ND

Copyright © Legal Benchmarking Limited and its affiliated companies 2025

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement

Search results for

There are 25,873 results that match your search.25,873 results
  • IFLR is pleased to announce the nominated deals and law firms for the Asian Legal Deals of the Year 2002, reflecting legal innovation in the region across all areas of corporate finance. Winners will be announced at our ceremony in Hong Kong on February 27
  • As the January 26 deadline for implementing the vast majority of rules required under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act drew near, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) churned out a series of reforms.
  • In a boost to high-yield lending in France, the minister of economy has resolved a long-running debate by clarifying that French usury law does not apply to corporate bonds.
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted last month to order mutual funds to disclose how they cast proxy votes, in a defeat for the $6.6 trillion industry.
  • A lesson from Astra International’s recent restructuring in Indonesia is that procedures for bondholder voting need to be more accessible in future. By Andrew Crooke
  • Hong Kong's new securities and futures laws will enable regulators to restrict offshore institutions selling financial services to onshore investors. Given uncertainty about how the rules will be interpreted and enforced, banks must reconsider how they win business. By Jill Wong of Allen & Overy
  • Companies considering rights offerings often need cash fast with few ways to get it. Including US investors in a deal can cost time and money, says Ashar Qureshi of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. But excluding them risks upsetting important backers
  • After several years of restructuring and writing off bad loans, Asian banks want to raise their capital adequacy ratios by issuing hybrid tier one securities. Sanghoon Lee of Linklaters looks at the steps regulators have taken so far and considers the structural challenges that remain
  • The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) last month published its much anticipated 2002 Master Agreement, the successor to its highly successful 1992 Master Agreement. Allen & Overy's John Berry explains the key developments
  • During the final months of 2002, the Turkish Capital Market Board (CMB) promulgated a number of new legislative acts.