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

Jeffrey Wilson of Baker & McKenzie, Hong Kong, explores how China’s new insurance regime for foreign investors has failed to improve on the Shanghai Measures and may not meet WTO standards

On January 1 2002 several amendments to the Securities Market Act (the SMA) and a number of related securities laws became effective. The amendments relate mainly to the definition of securities under Finnish law and introduce new provisions concerning other forms of public trading as well as alternative professional trading places to be established by authorized stock exchanges, investment firms and credit institutions. In addition, the amendments introduce provisions intended to increase the level of internal supervision conducted by market participants involved in the Finnish securities markets.

With pressure mounting on offshore jurisdictions to tighten up their tax haven status and secrecy rules, lawyers are looking to adapt their legislative environments to encourage work in sophisticated cross-border transactions. Thomas Williams reports

Allen & Gledhill has advised the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) on the bank's first synthetic securitization, backed by a $2.8 billion corporate loan portfolio.

Clifford Chance lawyers have closed the first fixed-line telecommunications securitization of the year.

A council established to advise the government of the Philippines and chaired by the country's president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, has pledged to apply five key pieces of legislation to reform the financial services industry.

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

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

In the April 2001 issue of IFLR we reported that political agreement was reached by the EU's Council of Ministers to establish the European Company Statute and the related directive on worker participation in European companies. We can now report that, on October 8 2001, the EU Employment and Social Policy Council adopted the regulation establishing the European Company Statute and the accompanying directive. The directive and regulation will come into force on October 8 2004.