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  • The understandable haste of Asian governments to create insolvency frameworks to revitalize their post-1997 economies has created as many problems as it has solved. Robert Zafft of the OECD and Lampros Vassiliou of Allens Arthur Robinson explain
  • In a significant development for Georgian tax legislation, the president of Georgia on April 19 2002 approved instructions outlining detailed procedures for the registration of taxpayers and the maintenance of a tax registry at district, zonal and regional levels (Decree 155). The instructions include forms to be filled out at the time of registration, reorganization or liquidation, and call for the collection of extensive information on taxpayers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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