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  • A panel of securities lawyers from a number of Asia Pacific countries consider a hypothetical multi-jurisdictional offering of debt securities via the internet. The fictional issuer, Ebiz.com, seeks advice on conflicting disclosure requirements and the responses of securities exchanges and national and international securities depositories and clearing systems
  • New type of authorization for investment firmsKPMG Legal Advisers, Brussels
  • Denton Wilde Sapte has completed a three year transaction which could provide natural gas for the first time to customers in Mozambique and South Africa. Denton advised Mozambique's state-owned oil company ENH on the $1.8 billion joint venture with SASOL, a South African synthetic fuel and chemicals group, which will enable them to develop Mozambique's two natural gas fields.
  • The mobile phone operator Telefónica Móviles has launched a $2.8 billion initial public offering (IPO), Spain's largest ever flotation. Telefónica Móviles, a division of Spain's largest telecom company Telefónica, coordinated the listing of 300 million shares on the Spanish bourse. The New York Stock Exchange also carried the stock in the form of American depositary shares.
  • In a second landmark deal last month, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy closed, Brazil's largest ever project financing. The US firm acted as lead lenders counsel on the $2.5 billion financing of the Barracuda and Caratinga oil and gas fields off the Brazilian coast.
  • The supervisory board of Deutsche Börse announced in December that it had agreed to let the exchange go public. The flotation is likely to take place in the first quarter of this year.
  • A bid to harmonize legislation on company takeovers in Europe that has been over a decade in the making may have to be scrapped. Sponsors of the directive fear last minute amendments proposed by the European Parliament will make it impossible to ratify.
  • When Ecuador defaulted on its Brady bonds in August 1999, it entered new territory for a sovereign issuer. More than a year later it seems to have answered many of the questions raised by its attempts to reschedule the debt. Lee C Buchheit of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, adviser to the Republic, explains the challenges involved and the legal innovations used to save Ecuador from its default
  • SJ Berwin has raided Baker & McKenzie's German venture capital and private equity funds group, as the UK firm's German arm details plans to establish a presence in the emerging Munich market.
  • The EU's committee of wise men has criticised the sluggish pace at which Europe has been moving towards increased market harmonization.