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  • Corporate governance rules play an important role for (institutional) investors and the good functioning of the stock markets. The main set of existing Belgian rules on corporate governance in the modern sense is to be found in voluntary codes of conduct, but today this is considered to be insufficient.
  • The issuance of a guidance note by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in May 2001 clarifying regulatory requirements concerning online marketing and offering of Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) will help to regulate activities that are targeted at Hong Kong investors or are detrimental to the interests of the investing public or market integrity of Hong Kong.
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  • More than a year has passed since the inception of Singapore’s seven legal joint ventures – the city state’s first step towards being part of the global legal profession. With one JV down and the others facing the challenges of integration, Nick Ferguson reports from Singapore on the progress made and lessons learned
  • Willkie Farr & Gallagher is strengthening its corporate and tax practices in Milan, hiring two Italian partners and two mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyers scarcely 20 months after they spurned PricewaterhouseCoopers' Landwell network for the flexibility of a local firm.
  • This year’s IFLR international equity survey will make grim reading for firms. The results show what many have feared – that as equity capital markets have collapsed so has the number of mandates for legal advisers. In a crunch market, Linklaters & Alliance and Sullivan & Cromwell have maintained their dominance while others have been stranded by narrow practices and slipped through the rankings. Ben Maiden reports
  • 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.