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  • On July 5 Kaili become the first company to sue the China Securities Regulatory Commission – and the first to win. Jingzhou Tao and Zhao Yong of Coudert Brothers, Beijing, look at the implications of this historic case
  • China’s entry to the WTO will open vast markets to foreign investors, including the telecoms sector. William Farris and Mitchell Stocks of Latham & Watkins, Hong Kong, China’s obligations under WTO membership
  • The US Congress is taking a strong line on international sanctions and looking to the markets to enforce them. Danforth Newcomb, Saamir Elshihabi and Perry Bechky of Shearman & Sterling explain the compliance issues companies need to understand
  • In July the Supreme People’s Court of China issued an explanation to help guide lower courts through the maze of domain name disputes. William Farris, Latham & Watkins Hong Kong, discusses the PRC’s progress
  • Thirty years after oil was discovered in Chad, financing for the Chad-Cameroon pipeline finally closed in July. Annie Williams and Mark Castillo-Bernaus of Baker & McKenzie, London, discuss the groundbreaking project
  • Jasper Evans, Martin Krause and Peter Waltz of Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler, Frankfurt, answer some of the key questions companies face when planning an issue of exchangeable or convertible bonds in Germany
  • The Superintendency of Securities, the entity in charge of regulating the Colombian securities market, has issued Resolution 0275, dated May 23 2001, which constitutes an important breakthrough for the implementation of corporate governance standards in the Colombian corporate sector.
  • The final report of the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) Company Law Review was published on July 26 2001. The report is a major undertaking which lays down a blueprint for reform and modernization of UK company law. Among other things the Review recommends:
  • On March 23 2001, the Swiss parliament passed a bill revising the legislation on consumer credits. The deadline for a referendum having run out on July 12 2001, the bill has overcome the most important obstacle to its becoming law. According to government plans, the new legislation will come into force on January 1 2003.
  • As part of the government's ambitious economic reform programme, Russia has recently liberalized several key provisions of the Law on Currency Regulation and Currency Control, which has long been criticized as overly restrictive. The main changes came into effect in early July 2001, and further reforms are expected in the near future.