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  • 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.
  • The Bond Market Association (TBMA) last month released a proposal draft of a new version of its Cross-Product Master Agreement (CPMA). The Agreement is an industry standard intended to harmonize agreements among agents conducting transactions in the swaps, repo, securities lending and currency markets. The revised draft takes the first version of the CPMA and expands its scope with the aim of reducing risk and instability in those markets.
  • What was to be the first ever New York listing of a Chinese private enterprise has been shelved, in part because of added regulatory burdens imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
  • For the first time a UK company is relying on US bankruptcy proceedings to protect it from US creditors while remaining solvent elsewhere.
  • Italy's regions, provinces, municipalities and other local entities can now securitize proceeds derived from the divestment of real estate assets under Law No 289 (December 27 2002). These territorial entities have become equal, in this respect, to the central government, which can finalize this kind of transaction under Law Decree No 351 (September 25 2001) as converted with amendments into Law No 419 (November 23 2001). For more details see IFLR, International briefings, January 2002.
  • Recent corporate scandals in the US and related discussions concerning the independence and integrity of analysts and their investment research have led to similar discussions in Finland. This article provides a brief overview of the Finnish rules and regulations applicable to investment research.
  • In December, Time magazine ran an article called the Must Lunch List, profiling 10 of the most powerful behind-the-scenes actors in Europe's increasingly integrated economy. One of the 10 was Jaap Winter, the former legal adviser to Unilever and leading corporate governance specialist who chairs the EU's High Level Group of Company Law Experts.
  • Milbank acts on record deal for Indonesia
  • The first part of the UK's largest-ever public-private partnership (PPP) transaction, the controversial transfer of responsibility for the London Underground to private companies, has closed.