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Break fees and other lock-up arrangements – recent Australian developments By Rachel Launders, Gilbert + Tobin, Sydney

Acquiring publicly held Mexican Companies – legal and regulatory issues By Guillermo Pérez Santiago and Rodrigo Conesa Labastida Ritch, Heather y Mueller, SC

As a partner in the firm's Toronto office, Leslie Gord's practice is concentrated in securities law with extensive involvement in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and capital reorganizations. He has had significant involvement in a large number of public offerings (including common shares and warrants, convertible debentures, mutual fund units, limited partnership units, preferred shares, special warrants, fully paid warrants and rights offerings). Additionally, he has been involved with numerous business combinations and capital reorganizations of public entities (by way of, among others, cash and securities exchange takeover bids, reverse takeover bids, issuer bids and triangular amalgamations).

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

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.

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.

Shearman & Sterling opened its first office in Italy on March 18 in Rome and plans to open another in Milan. Partners Michael Bosco and Robert Ellison, together with Italian lead associate Domenico Fanuele, will lead the Rome operation. The office initially comprises about 10 lawyers with room for 25. And the firm is hunting for more. "We are actively looking for an Italian partner [from another firm]," said Ellison last month.