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The first German public to private leveraged buyout under the country's new takeover laws has been structured, testing the new regime. Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hengeler Mueller and Shearman & Sterling have each been involved in the legal work on the deal, in which CIBC World Markets helped finance the acquisition of Gardena Holding by Green Holding, a new company established by Industri Kapital 2000 Limited.

Samsung Capital has completed its third international asset-backed securitization deal. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, which has been involved on all the company's deals so far, advised Merrill Lynch, the arrangers. The deal was valued at $296 million and differed from the previous two in that it was placed in the US in reliance on Regulation S and Rule 144A. It was launched through the Cayman Islands-registered Samsung-Capital Auto 2002-1 special purpose vehicle and achieved a triple-A rating thanks to a monoline wrap provided by Financial Security Assurance (FSA).

By Clare Davidson, New York

Frederic Rich of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York considers the key issues facing the project finance market over the coming years

Dan Cunningham of Allen & Overy, New York, and Thomas Werlen, in London, call for innovation to drive the derivatives market forward

Although mergers or changes of corporate form have been permitted under Swiss law in individual cases, there have been no provisions available governing such transactions in general. Because there is a clear need for businesses to change their corporate form, either as a consequence of the company's growth or to meet the requirements of the capital markets, Switzerland's Federal Council entrusted a group of experts in 1999 to draft a law on the matter, which will come into force soon.

An uncertainty about the enforceability of arbitration clauses in state contracts was finally settled with the publication on April 29 2002 of the new Arbitration Act, BE 2545 (2002). The effective date of this Act was April 30 2002.

By Rob Mannix and Thomas Williams

Philip Gilligan of Lovells Hong Kong and Joe Bannister in London compare the challenges of recovering assets in China with the approach taken by the English courts

Twenty years ago IFLR ran a story on the Argentine crisis. Now another rumbles on. Stephen Hoare speaks to some of the financial markets’ leading personalities about the people, deals and regulations that have shaped our world in between