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  • The future for Hong Kong securitization
    Despite having one of the most securitization-friendly legal regimes in Asia, Hong Kong’s originators have not yet embraced the technique. Patrick Lines of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Hong Kong reviews the development of the market and the possibilities for growth
    July 31 2001
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    Takeover code collapse could herald less European M&A
    Europe's lawmakers and regulators stepped away from the harmonization of financial legislation last month after German, Spanish and Italian politicians sunk a last-ditch compromise on pan-European takeover legislation. Corporate lawyers are dismayed at the European Parliament's failure to ratify the deal, hammered out in June after last-minute German objections to the restriction of defensive measures.
    July 31 2001
  • Australia gets closer to financial services reform
    The Australian government has taken an active and progressive view on financial legislation, this year introducing a series of significant reforms. Don Harding of Freehills, Sydney, assesses the new Corporations Act and the progress being made towards reform of financial services provision
    July 31 2001
  • Hong Kong completes rules for 3G auction
    On July 18 2001 Hong Kong’s telecoms regulator published the information memorandum and auction rules that will govern the auction of four 3G licences. Applications to participate in the auction must be submitted on September 17 or 18 2001. Vivianne Jabbour, Gabriela Kennedy and John Hartley, of Lovells’ Hong Kong office, consider some of the most important issues raised by the rules
    July 31 2001
  • US regulators put analysts under siege
    In the wake of the collapse in dot.com shares, regulators in the US are attempting to promote increased independence among analysts and greater openness about their interests. Diane Mage Roberts of O’Melveny & Myers, London, looks at the new guidelines and argues that it is time for analysts to assert their neutrality or lose relevance in the market
    July 31 2001
  • Has Turkey got its new Banks Act right?
    Following a series of crises in the country’s banking sector, and various attempts at reform, the Turkish government has at last made significant amendments to its banking law. Mehmet Irmak Canevi and Halide Çetinkaya of Derman Ortak Avukat Bürosu, Istanbul, examine the changes and ask if the government has finally got things right?
    July 31 2001
  • How fraud unravels performance bonds
    The UK’s Court of Appeal ruled last month that a bank can avoid payment on a performance bond if it has been acquired fraudulently. Paul Friedman and Philip Young of Baker & McKenzie, London, review the case and assess its implications for banks and bondholders
    July 31 2001
  • Big guns take position for difficult technology issue
    Troubled German microchip-maker Infineon last month called in technology-focused Brobeck Hale & Dorr and Clifford Chance for a $1.4 billion secondary share offering in difficult market conditions. Infineon made the share offering in Germany and the US and through private placements to international institutional investors elsewhere on July 3. The 60 million share secondary offering in the US and Germany was priced at euro 25 ($21) a share.
    July 31 2001
  • Is ISDA documentation reliable in case of early termination of the Master Agreement?
    Alain Gauvin of Coudert Brothers, Paris, reviews the Peregrine/Robinson ruling and argues that market quotations are not sufficient when settling payments in such cases
    July 31 2001
  • In brief
    US firms act on Egyptian bond first The London offices of White & Case and Dewey Ballantine have advised on Egypt's first international bond issue.
    July 31 2001
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