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Securitization is an expanding market in Portugal, involving a variety of assets as well as various types of originator.

"This should not be seen as a move to take on the best of Wall Street"

On January 31 2001, the Finnish Ministry of Finance appointed a working group to develop legislation applicable to the book-entry securities system and book-entry accounts. The task of the working group is to propose amendments to the legislation, in order to create a multi-level ownership system.

The Ontario government’s rejection of the Securities Commission proposals for derivatives regulation threatens to destroy five years of work. Margaret Grottenthaler of Stikeman Elliott, Toronto, reflects on the government’s negative response and asks where the market can go from here

Hong Kong’s mobile operators have waited since late last year to find out how they will be asked to pay for the territory’s 3G licences. Michael Reede and Alana Triscott of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Hong Kong reveal how the sale will work

Decision 486 of the Andean Community Commission, the new Intellectual Property Law for the member countries of the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela), grants additional protection for well-known trademarks. This protection guards well-known signs against unauthorized registration of a domain name, in all countries of the Community.

Structural and cultural obstacles within South Korea's takeover market may stifle plans by the government to boost mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the country, say some lawyers.

Liberalization of the Uruguayan telecommunications marketGomez Pinzon & Asociados Bogota

Nigel Boardman, Slaughter and May Mobile telecoms group Orange has taken a deep breath and finally launched the prospectus for its flotation this month. And as the offering comes ever closer, the list of law firms advising Orange and its owner, France Telecom, gets longer.

Baker Botts has hired Christine Ferguson, former counsel at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to strengthen the firm's central Asian team. Partners expect a wave of projects work to flow from a gas pipeline financing in Azerbaijan. Ferguson specializes in debt and equity transactions for natural resources, banking, telecoms, and other projects work in Azerbaijan and Albania, and joins as of counsel to head the US firm's Baku office. Ferguson, a former Moscow-based Clifford Chance partner, joins four local lawyers in Baku. She will use her experience in financing and hydro-carbons in Russia, the Balkans and central Asia, to win regional work.