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  • The dust has barely settled on the 1998 UK Competition Act and the government has already introduced plans for new legislation. Will this give the UK a “world class competition regime” or, ask Simon Polito and Ruth Kelly of Lovells, is it too much, too soon?
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges has closed the first Irish mortgage securitization deal of the year. The euro650 million ($320 million) issue of AAA and A2-rated notes by Phoenix Funding and backed by the Irish residential mortgages held by IIB Homeloans, is the first time that the IIB Bank subsidiary has tapped the securitization market in six years.
  • Linklaters has acted on the largest road financing in Portugal, advising the lead arrangers on a 30-year design, build and operate concession.
  • Law firms from Japan, the US and Brazil have put together a unique securitization of money sent home by Brazilians working in Japan. The $300 million deal is the first financial future flow transaction in Brazil based on electronic remittances.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • On July 23 2001 Consob issued a communication to remind collective asset managers of the rules with which the process of making investment decisions must comply, inter alia with reference to some operating procedures required by the prudential rules for limiting and diversifying risk.