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  • French lawyers have given a mixed response to radical plans to change the procedure for listing companies in Paris. The French stock market regulator, the Commission des Opérations de Bourse (COB) launched a consultative document at the end of July proposing rules that overhaul listing procedures and which some local lawyers argue will change the legal position of banks underwriting new offerings on the Paris market.
  • There have been no high profile transatlantic law firm mergers since Clifford Chance teamed up with Rogers & Wells over 18 months ago. Most non-US firms in New York are playing their strategic cards close to their chests. Despite the threat of recession, US editor Tom Nicholson finds the UK firms in a cautiously expansionary mood - but keeping their options open
  • A group of regional Russian banks has warned the government that introducing a three-tier system of bank licensing may cause smaller institutions to lose their right to operate.
  • Leading Spanish firm Cuatrecasas is planning to open branches across Europe and in Latin America under its new management team.
  • The Indian government has tabled the country's new Competition Bill in parliament.
  • The classification of debt and equity for taxation purposes in Australia is about to undergo significant change if the provisions of the New Business Tax System (Debt & Equity) Bill 2001 are enacted.
  • 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.
  • Franco Vigliano, Allen & Overy Just 10 months after hiring two key project finance partners, Allen & Overy's new Italian projects team has two landmark public private partnership (PPP) deals under its belt.
  • 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
  • Jerome Cohen, the first foreign lawyer to enter China in 1979, discusses China’s ability to comply with the legal requirements of WTO entry and sees a sometimes difficult road ahead