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    Lawyers strike gold in Enron collapse
    Enron headquarters,
    February 01 2002
  • Enron saga highlights old accounting issues, say lawyers
    As the Enron story unfolds, lawyers say it raises age-old issues regarding the independence of auditors and the need to ensure adequate objectivity.
    February 01 2002
  • China
    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.
    February 01 2002
  • United Kingdom
    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.
    February 01 2002
  • Japan
    Consistent with its plan to mold the Japanese Commercial Code to the needs of business, the Japanese government recently announced amendments to the laws on stock rights. From April 1 2002 two types of stock rights – detachable stock warrants and stock options – will be replaced by a new type of stock right: shinkabu-yoyakuken (abbreviated to yoyakuken), meaning literally "the reserved right to new shares".
    February 01 2002
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    Offshore lawyers change tack
    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
    February 01 2002
  • Australia
    The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority recently issued a draft prudential standard for Authorized Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs), together with a draft guidance note. These measures aim to ensure that ADI outsourcing arrangements are subject to appropriate due diligence and continuous monitoring.
    February 01 2002
  • Turkey
    The Capital Market Board (CMB) is using its best efforts in order to ensure a transparent environment, enabling investors and publicly held companies to become part of a sound and prosperous market. As a result of these efforts it has promulgated several new communiqués.
    February 01 2002
  • Word of Mouth
    "The legislative branch of the government is essentially saying that some of the agencies of the executive branch have fallen down on the job"
    February 01 2002
  • Simmons & Simmons starts US securities practice
    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.
    February 01 2002
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