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It has taken more than 30 years, but the EU has at last agreed on a legal format for the European Company, a vehicle it hopes will support the EU project by freeing corporates from national differences in legislation and boosting European economic activity. Jean-Louis Joris of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Brussels explains what the European Company really is, how to set one up and asks whether, ultimately, it will be a success

The political and economic turmoil in Argentina has temporarily derailed one of last year's biggest energy deals in the country.

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To facilitate the movement of funds from offshore venture capital (VC) funds into China, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce jointly promulgated the Provisional Regulations on Establishing Foreign-Invested Venture Capital Investment Enterprises, which came into effect September 1 2001.

Simmons & Simmons is pitching for US securities work after netting its first US-qualified securities partner in the UK. Christopher Lewis, a senior associate in the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, has joined the firm's capital markets group.

As the Enron story unfolds, lawyers say it raises age-old issues regarding the independence of auditors and the need to ensure adequate objectivity.

Mayer Brown & Platt is expecting to scoop at least three new securitization deals after hiring Drew Salvest to strengthen its US-law capabilities.

In the first of a three-part series, Philip Gilligan and John Banks of Lovells, Hong Kong, examine the causes behind the boom in M&A activity in the Asian banking industry and explain how such deals can be structured

A recently completed study in Canada found that collars, which are used to stabilize a bidder's stock acquisition currency, have been used in approximately 2% of takeover bids for public companies over the past three years. Although the number of deals appears low, two of the five largest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals of 2000 in Canada employed collars. Both Vivendi's C$41.6 billion ($26.1 billion) acquisition of Seagram and Shire Pharmaceuticals Group's C$5.9 billion acquisition of BioChem Pharma utilized collar structures to increase certainty for their transactions.

The ever-growing popularity of football is forcing clubs to expand their grounds to meet the demands of fans and to be able to afford players’ wages and transfer fees. With the equity markets turning their backs, clubs are turning to securitization to fund their expansion. Stuart Brinkworth of Latham & Watkins, London, explains how