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  • Competition among Hong Kong’s smaller banks and a relaxed regulatory environment mean that buying a bank in the region has never been as easy or attractive. Matthew Barnard and Paul Sroka of Allen Arthur Robinson explain the rules every prospective foreign buyer should know
  • The new Spanish finance bill aims to provide a more comprehensive, simple regulatory framework offering greater investor protection. Fernando de las Cuevas and Valentina Rodríguez of Gomez-Acebo & Pombo, Madrid, examine the key issues
  • The continuing collapse in share prices is making it increasingly hard for companies to raise cash. In August, IFLR showed how securitization could help telcos. This month, Christian Parker and Martin Dunton of Norton Rose explain the role convertible and exchangeable bonds can play
  • Over the summer, the Czech and Slovak republics both passed new laws on competition. As they and other countries line up for prospective EU membership, Michal Dlouhy and Martin Podolan of White & Case, Feddersen, Prague, assess the legislation
  • 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