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By Robert Bostrom of Winston & Strawn

By Carol Hansell of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Alexandre Gossn Barreto, partner of Souza, Cescon Avedissian, Barrieu e Flesch Advogados, is a Bachelor in Law (LLB) at the University of São Paulo Law School (USP) and a Master in banking and finance law (LLM) at the Boston University Law School. Alexandre Barreto specializes in capital markets, banking law, general financing and privatization. He has advised several financial institutions and Brazilian companies in transactions in the international markets, including UBS Warburg in the listing of ADRs level III of SABESP in the NYSE, and Petrobras in the first shelf registration with the SEC for a Brazilian company, in the amount of $8 billion. In addition, he has advised in several representative transactions in the Brazilian capital markets, including public issuances of bonds (Petrobras, in a R$750 million debentures issuance, Unibanco in a R$1.3 billion debentures issuance by Telemar, a consortium of banks led by Unibanco, BBA, Itaú, Bradesco, ING Barings and Sudameris in a R$600 million debentures issuance by Cemig, and a consortium of banks led by Unibanco, BBA, Itaú, Bradesco and Bank of America in a R$500 million debentures issuance by Copel).

Receivables securitization in Brazil By Alexandre Barreto and Ronald Herscovici of Souza, Cescon Avedissian, Barrieu e Flesch Advogados, São Paulo

By José Guardo of Garrigues, Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, Madrid

Synthetic securitization: a growing funding technique By Simonetta Andrioli and Luca Dezzani of Zini and Associates, Milan

Tarja Wist is a partner of Waselius & Wist, a law firm established in the spring of 1997 by Jan Waselius and Ms Wist.

Balbir Bindra is a partner and co-head of the firm's international finance group in Hong Kong. Mr Bindra's principal areas of practice have involved him in a wide range of structured financings and capital markets instruments throughout Asia. He has acted for arrangers, issuers, swap counter-parties and trustees on pure debt, equity-linked, credit-linked and other structured products. He has advised on CDOs (both customary and synthetic), repackagings, securitizations and asset-based financings.

Securitization in Asia By Neil Campbell and Balbir Bindra of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Hong Kong

By Michael Tsibris, Nicholas Moussas of Moussas & Tsibris, Athens