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  • Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and London law firm Herbert Smith will have helped to close the largest corporate deal in Russia if the Azerbaijani government agrees to the $1.4 billion sale of Lukoil's stake in one of the country's large oil fields.
  • Spanish lawyers say the government must clarify proposed changes to the country's takeover laws. Last month the Spanish government confirmed it would announce amendments to the rules governing tender offers that will force bidders to make more mandatory takeover offers.
  • Companies listed in Hong Kong will face tougher corporate governance requirements that include having more independent directors and capping discounts on share placements.
  • France's stock market regulator, the Commission des Opérations de Bourse (Cob) is to make an in-depth analysis of deals structured using derivatives to raise capital.
  • 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 latest draft of the Basel Capital Accord proposes to treat project finance, asset finance and commodities finance differently from conventional lending. Nicholas Budd of Denton Wilde Sapte explains how
  • The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is looking forward to a new era in Hong Kong's financial markets with the long-awaited Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO) due to come into effect on April 1 2003.
  • Who will pay for independent research if not the investment banking arms of Wall Street firms? Steven Lofchie of Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, looks at the latest US moves to curb analyst conflicts
  • The first global bond offering from one of Korea Electric Power Corporation's (Kepco's) generation subsidiaries has set a useful precedent for the market, showing how to avoid triggering a default on bonds should the issuer be privatized in future.
  • London's merger and acquisition lawyers have begun the new year rushed off their feet after no less than six UK supermarkets prepared to bid for the country's fourth largest food retailer Safeway.