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  • Secondary legislation to avert Enterprise Act threat to securitization
    The UK government has conceded that secondary legislation is needed to ensure the Enterprise Act does not restrict innovative securitizations.
    December 01 2002
  • How India's reforms will curb foreign investment
    Contrary to the Indian government’s economic plan, amendments to the country’s takeover laws will discourage foreign investments. Abhimanyu Jalan and Saviprasad H R of Pathak & Associates explain
    December 01 2002
  • Turkey
    Distressed Turkish companies in almost every industry are attempting to restructure their debts to survive and continue their operations in the wake off the recent economic crisis. The main piece of legislation addressing restructuring is Law No 4743 on Restructuring of Debts to the Financial Sector and amendments to certain laws followed by the Regulation on the General Terms of the Approval, Acceptance and Implementation of Financial Restructuring Framework Agreement.
    December 01 2002
  • Why regulators should leave bank conflicts alone
    Kevin Keogh of White & Case, New York, looks at the arguments surrounding the creation of independent analysts in the US, and suggests that trying to remove all conflicts of interest could be a waste of time
    December 01 2002
  • Switzerland
    The Swiss Federal Banking Commission has circulated a draft regulation that defines the term public offering as used in the Investment Fund Act. The Act codifies the current practice of the Federal Banking Commission regarding the term public offering not only under the Investment Fund Act but also under the Banking Act and under the Stock Exchange Act.
    December 01 2002
  • Italy
    On the basis of existing legislation Italian regions and local authorities have been entitled to receive payment of the a 50% withholding tax that could have been applicable to their notes. In the absence of specific regulatory provisions and failing any express provision in the budget laws of the Republic of Italy, this legislation had never been applied. This has created some confusion and uncertainty about the accounting treatment of such claims at territorial level.
    December 01 2002
  • Saudi Arabia
    The Saudi Arabian government has announced the planned privatization of over 20 areas of the country's economy.
    December 01 2002
  • Cleary Gottlieb acts in largest US cross-border deal of the year
    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is representing financial institution HSBC in the $14 billion acquisition of consumer lender Household International, in this year's largest cross-border deal in the US.
    December 01 2002
  • Canada
    Shareholder rights plans or poison pills are a common Canadian takeover bid defence strategy. Used properly, these plans buy target boards time to assess an unsolicited bid and, if necessary, seek alternatives beneficial to its shareholders. Used improperly, they can block a takeover bid and impede a shareholder's right to choose whether to sell its shares and to whom.
    December 01 2002
  • Tight deadlines leave little room for corporate governance exemptions
    The US Securities and Exchange Commission has admitted that tough deadlines for implementing Sarbanes-Oxley mean the regulator has little time to consider exemptions for foreign issuers.
    November 01 2002
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