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2001: The year that singapore charged into M&A By Lee Suet Fern and Lim Merng Phang of Shearman & Sterling Stamford, Singapore

A Philippine perspective By Rocky Reyes of SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan

By James Gibson and James Radcliffe of Bell Gully, Auckland

By Kartini Muljadi of Kartini Muljadi & Rekan, Jakarta

Legal and tax considerations in cross-border M&A By Deanne D'Souza-Monie of Nishith Desai Associates, Mumbai

Year in review By the M&A Practice Group of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Toronto

Rachel joined Gilbert & Tobin in 1998 and became a partner in July 2001, working with the M&A Group. Before that, Rachel spent three years with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission, gaining extensive experience in corporate regulation, and one year as in-house counsel for an electricity retailer and distributor.

The leading international rating agencies are facing an investigation by US lawmakers that could lead to more regulation over their activities.

In late March the European Parliament passed laws recognizing a pan-European prospectus, clamping down on insider trading and introducing tougher rules for bank insurance.

The UK has moved to safeguard London's future as a financial hub by protecting securitizations from revamped insolvency rules in the UK Enterprise Bill, published at the end of March. The government has listened to the concerns of banks, lawyers and accountants that the Bill could threaten the future of securitizations and other capital markets transactions in the UK by removing the right for secured creditors to appoint administrative receivers. Losing this right would make it hard for secured creditors to enforce security over the assets of a bankrupt company ahead of unsecured creditors.