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Ed Greene of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton calls for greater cooperation between Europe and the US to solve some of the problems afflicting world markets

Peugeot has closed a complex €1.5 billion ($1.49 billion) securitization of French and Spanish car loans using a Dutch special purpose vehicle (SPV), the biggest European car deal yet, involving three jurisdictions.

The International Primary Markets Association (IPMA) has warned that the EU's plans for greater transparency in its capital markets will encourage companies to list elsewhere. In a letter to the European Commission the association, which represents the views of over 60 international banks operating in the European capital markets, says that "third-country issuers will be driven from EU markets" if the obligations of the new directive are disproportionately burdensome.

The Ministry of Finance has issued two new decisions amending the regulation on listing particulars and offer documents: the Decision on Listing Particulars (26.6.2002/539) and the Decision on Offer Documents (26.6.2002/540). These decisions replace the Ministry of Finance's Decision on Listing Particulars (19.11.1998/197) and Decision on Offer Documents (13.10.1994/905).

By Yang Ho Oh, Bae Kim & Lee

Barry Metzger is a partner with Coudert Brothers practising global finance law in the firm's New York office. In over 20 years of private practice with Coudert Brothers, Mr Metzger has advised on a variety of innovative international banking and finance transactions. From 1995 to early 1999, Mr Metzger was on sabbatical from the firm while he served as general counsel for the Asian Development Bank. At the Asian Development Bank, Mr Metzger was intimately involved in the Bank's emergency assistance to Korea, Thailand and Indonesia during the Asian financial crisis, in the Bank's project financing of infrastructure, in its investment funds activities and in its work on legal reform in the Bank's developing member countries. Mr Metzger is a recognized authority on legal systems and economic law reform. He has advised the Russian Republic and the Republic of Korea on corporate governance reform and has written extensively on such issues as they affect economic development and foreign investment.

Jay K.Lee , Kwon Hoe Kim , Kim Shin & Yu

by Joon Park & Young Man Huh, Kim & Chang

Legal aspects of project financing in the Russian energy sector: changing times By Dmitry Dobatkin and Tracey Greenaway of Linklaters CIS

A new Russian revolution: corporate governance reform By Barry Metzger, Richard N Dean, Derek Bloom and Kirill Ratnikov* of Coudert Brothers LLP