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Lawyers warn that technology companies could face an avalanche of securities fraud litigation following the stock market slump

Baker & McKenzie seizes France Télécom lawyers for Paris office

Recent Japanese legislative changes relating to the establishment of holding companies and corporate splits will have important effects on convertible Eurobond documentation. Alan Davies and Surya Soni of Linklaters & Alliance, Tokyo, explain

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Ashurst Morris Crisp in Tokyo is advising Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) on a $1 billion project to expand an aluminium smelter in Mozambique, which is expected to reach financial close in June.

Changes in Italy’s legislation and government have done much to increase the work-load of firms in Italy. But as Thomas Williams reports from Milan and Rome, a second wave of competition from across the Atlantic is forcing Italian firms to reevaluate their strategies

UK lawyers have reacted angrily to the German government's attempt to frustrate the agreement of a European takeover code. The 12-year long negotiations to establish a pan-European code were thrown into disarray at the end of May when German government officials bowed to domestic pressure and withdrew their support for the draft European directive. European member states now have until the end of this month, when the conciliation period over the takeover code ends, to agree a compromise or the draft directive will collapse and with it any hope of agreeing a European code.

According to article 758 of Poland's Civil Code, as amended by the Law on Amendment of the Civil Code Act of July 26 2000, agency is based on a contract by means of which the person accepting the mandate (agent) assumes the obligation to mediate permanently, within the scope of the activity of his or her enterprise, for a financial consideration, in the conclusion of contracts with clients for the benefit of the entrepreneur being the principal, or in the conclusion of such contracts in the prinicipal's name.

The long-awaited amendments to the provisions of Canada's provincial securities legislation governing takeover and issuer bids (sometimes referred to as the Zimmerman amendments) took effect on March 31 2001. The amendments apply to each Canadian province that has securities legislation governing takeover and issuer bids, other than Québec, where the securities regulators are awaiting legislative approvals required to implement the amendments.

The Prudential Insurance Company of America, the second biggest life insurer in the US, is set to raise $3.9 billion later this year in an initial public offering (IPO) when it demutualizes.