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  • Cordiant demerger planned
    The advertising group Cordiant announced in April that it will split into three companies later this year. The demerger will create Saatchi & Saatchi, a worldwide advertising network; Bates, a marketing communications network; and a media services group, Zenith. The group will hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on the demerger in October.
    June 30 1997
  • News Corp to acquire Heritage Media
    Media multinational The News Corporation is to acquire Dallas marketing company Heritage Media. The tax-free merger will cost News Corporation about US$754 million. News Corporation intends to keep Heritage's marketing services operations, but to sell its radio and television broadcasters.
    June 30 1997
  • Gallaher demerger from American Brands
    Gallaher Group, the UK's largest manufacturer of tobacco products, which manufactures Benson and Hedges, Silk Cut, Hamlet cigars and Condor pipe tobacco, has demerged from American Brands and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
    June 30 1997
  • Heard at the bar
    • Robert Kimmitt, who in some of his previous incarnations has been managing director of Lehman Brothers, US ambassador to Germany, under-secretary of state for political affairs and general counsel of the US Treasury Department, joined Wilmer Cutler & Pickering as a partner on May 1. He will practise in the firm's corporate and international groups, in the Washington DC office. The firm has also added Leon Greenfield, Charles Mendels and Brian Menkes as counsel.
    June 30 1997
  • Brazil improves arbitration law
    Brazil’s unsatisfactory arbitration law has been updated to make this form of dispute resolution more attractive. By Walter Douglas Stuber and Noemia Mayumi Fukugauti of Amaro, Stuber e Advogados Associados, São Paulo
    June 30 1997
  • Cyprus
    Under new guidelines issued by the Central Bank of Cyprus, the requirements for the acquisition of shares and/or share options and/or rights issues of banking institutions listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange are as follows:
    June 30 1997
  • SIB unable to pierce the corporate veil
    In spite of the decision in the Scandex case, the liability of directors of foreign-based financial services companies selling into the UK in contravention of FSA rules remains unclear. By David Greene of Edwin Coe, London
    June 30 1997
  • Brazil
    Exchange taxes cut
    June 30 1997
  • Argentina
    The National Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional de Valores or CNV) has enacted its General Resolution No. 288, which aims to prevent money-laundering. The Resolution sets out general rules associated with the information to be provided by the following entities:
    June 30 1997
  • UAE
    A recent judgment of the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi has emphasized and expanded the Court's hostility to margin trading. This is the third in a series of cases dating back to 1990 relating to trading in currencies or commodities.
    June 30 1997
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