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  • The development of cross-border securitization deals with new asset streams offers the prospect of rich pickings. Sara Ver-Bruggen reports from Seoul on some of the latest transactions and the prospects for the liberalization in the legal market
  • US firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton advised Euronext on its successful $807 million bid for the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) last month. Euronext successfully beat rival bids for the derivatives exchange by Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange.
  • Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) specialists are hoping that Emerson Electric's acquisition of one of China's most profitable private companies may signal a change of attitude from the government.
  • Danaharta, Malaysia's state-owned asset management company, has finally completed its first asset-backed securitization (ABS). Allen & Overy won the mandate against inevitable competition from Clifford Chance and Freshfields, the two firms that have traditionally dominated the Asian securitization market.
  • Hengeler Mueller has used a new residential mortgage-backed securitization structure to close a synthetic securitization for the German financial institution Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank. The German firm created the PROVIDE-Platform for the euro 1 billion ($875 million) synthetic securitization of residential mortgage receivables held by the state-owned Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).
  • The Italian Constitution has recently been amended by constitutional law No 3, October 18 2001, in line with the general trend towards federalism.
  • Earlier this year the European Commission proposed the introduction of a new directive on market abuse. The proposed directive deals with insider dealing and market manipulation, and the definition of these activities is large enough to ensure that new abusive practices will fall under its scope of application.
  • Bond traders have urged the European Commission to soften proposed changes to market regulation, saying radical reform could thwart the innovation of electronic trading systems.
  • Under new SEC proposals, Regulation S-T will be amended to extend the requirement to file with its electronic system, Edgar, to non-US issuers. Sebastian Sperber and Ying Hsu of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Hong Kong, explain how to negotiate the system
  • Shareholders of German companies have had their right to say how hostile takeover bids should be dealt with curtailed. Last minute changes to the controversial takeover bill last month will allow board directors to take some form of poison pill defensive action against hostile bids as soon as they obtain the consent of the company's supervisory board.