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

Commissioner Laura Unger has been appointed acting head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) until President George W Bush makes a final decision on a permanent appointment.

Shearman & Sterling has become the first major Wall Street firm to formally agree a joint venture with a firm in Asia. The firm's Singapore office is founding a joint law venture with local Singaporean firm Stamford.

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

Allen & Overy has poached the senior partners of two US law firms in a bid to boost the firm's ability to offer transatlantic advice on US law for European and US clients.

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

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.

The French securitization market has experienced a significant boom over the last 18 months, as corporates and French financial institutions alike learn to reap the benefits of an increasingly flexible and reliable legal framework introduced by the law of December 23 1988. This established a new type of entity, the fonds commun de créances (FCC) aimed at providing market participants with a vehicle for securitization structures. In so doing, France was the first civil law country to deal successfully with the constraints imposed by the civil law regime in terms of the transfer of assets and create an entity capable of matching the flexibility available in Anglo Saxon jurisdictions.

The federal government recently passed the Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (No.1) Act (FSLA) which continues the government's financial sector reform agenda. It builds on the financial sector legislation already implemented by the government in response to the recommendations of the 1997 Financial System Inquiry.

Clifford Chance has advised Gulf Indonesia on its $9 billion gas deal with Singapore Power. Lawyers from the firm's oil and gas team in Singapore advised Gulf Indonesia and Santa Fe Energy Resources on the gas supply, transportation and sale arrangements between Pertamina, Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas company, and Singapore Power.