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

Antitrust/competition By Lawson Hunter, QC, Susan M Hutton and Sandra Walker of Stikeman Elliott

General reflections on 2001 By Nina Wilkman and Christian Fogelholm of Borenius & Kemppinen, Helsinki

The Austrian M&A market By Gerald Schmidsberger of Saxinger Chalupsky Weber & Partners, Vienna

Gerald Schmidsberger is an attorney at law and partner of Saxinger, Chalupsky, Weber & Partners, Vienna, Linz, Wels. His main areas of work are corporate law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities regulations, banking and finance. He is a lecturer and author of several corporate law and M&A publications. Before becoming an attorney-at-law Mr Schmidsberger worked for an international accounting firm.

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

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.

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.

Under the terms of its entry to the WTO, China is committed to allowing greater access to its banking sector. Despite the slow inroads being made by foreign institutions, however, rules remain in place that will slow their progress, as Lester Ross of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Beijing, explains