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  • The promulgation of a new Trust Law, effective October 1 2001, represents an important step forward for China and its legal development. The Trust Law will have implications for many aspects of structuring investments and financings (including the taking of security) within China. The new law applies to civil, business and charitable trusts and is intended to pave the way for a new investment funds law to further stimulate the Chinese economy.
  • A tough year for capital markets lawyers in Belgium and The Netherlands, and the effects of disasters such as Sabena’s bankruptcy, have overshadowed the Euronext merger. With firms taking a hard look at their practices, what are the prospects for lawyers? Thomas Williams reports from Amsterdam and Brussels
  • 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
  • Singapore's first listing of a real estate investment trust (Reit), one of its most eagerly awaited deals, has collapsed. The decision to pull the initial public offering (IPO) of SingMall Property was taken in an effort to prevent poisoning the future of the Reit 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.