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  • Henry Morgenbesser, Marina Casani and Felicity Gemson of Allen & Overy report on the American companies rethinking their policy on options for staff
  • Ira Schacter and Alexandra Scheibe of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft explain how the Act could damage the relationship between lawyers and their clients
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Deutsche Bank on two securitizations, building on the firm's relationship with the bank for structured finance work in Europe. The first of the two deals, for the Buhrmann Group, was one of the few structures so far to securitize trade receivables originated by different subsidiaries in different jurisdictions, financing them using both commercial paper and medium-term funding.
  • Minter Ellison is advising the Australian-led consortium that has won a contract worth up to $14 billion to supply liquefied natural gas to the Guangdong LNG Project in southern China. The decision to award the contract to the North West Shelf Venture – which comprises Woodside Energy, BHP Billiton, BP, ChevronTexaco, Shell and Japan Australia LNG – creates Australia's largest-ever single export deal.
  • The State Development Planning Commission issued the Provisional Regulations on Administration of Foreign Investment in the Rare Earth Industry on August 1 2002. According to this regulation, foreign-invested rare earth projects are divided into three main categories, that is, rare earth mining, rare earth smelting and separation, and rare earth deep processing and application.
  • Europe has set an ambitious timetable to combat Market Abuse. IFLR invited five financial specialists to discuss EU plans so far
  • Jay Lawrence Westbrook of the University of Texas School of Law considers the merits of three initiatives to deal with international workouts
  • The Securities Settlement System Reform Law will come into effect in Japan in early January 2003. The object of the law is to provide a uniform, safe and efficient book-entry settlement system for certain corporate, government, municipal and foreign bonds, commercial paper and beneficial interests. Shares, warrants and convertible bonds are outside the scope of the new system. A unified settlement system for all securities remains a goal for the future.
  • After the completion of the negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), the Mexican authorities started to negotiate international treaties around the world to avoid double taxation, as well as treaties for the exchange of tax information. Under the constitutional principles, these treaties when ratified and approved by the Mexican senate will become the highest laws of the land, together with the Mexican Constitution.
  • Linklaters has advised a consortium of private equity houses on Europe's most expensive leveraged buyout. The €4.9 billion ($4.78 billion) acquisition of Legrand is the biggest private equity buyout for a decade, will be the largest mezzanine financing in Europe and the biggest high-yield financing in France.