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LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae Moscow

Matsushita of Japan and Siemens of Germany launched the IPO of an approximately 75% stake in their joint venture, Epcos, on October 15. The offering is a dual listing on the New York and Frankfurt stock exchanges. It raised approximately euro 1.3 billion ($1.4 billion), making it one of the largest IPOs on the Frankfurt stock market. Epcos is one of Europe's largest manufacturers of passive electronic components.

Baker & McKenzie is advising on the most recent privatization in Eastern Europe. In mid-October, the government of Croatia sold a 35% stake in its telecoms operator, Hrvatske Telekomunikacije, to Deutsche Telekom for $850 million. The sale to Deutsche Telekom followed a successful bidding competition with a consortium comprising Telia and Telenor.

International investors beware of foreign securities laws

The London office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges this month finished working with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on the structuring of the Eurocredit collateralized debt obligation. The offering, worth euro416.5 million ($439.7 million) is the first wholly European take on a US-originated financing. Lead partner Erica Handling explains the deal

In early October at the International Bar Association meeting in Barcelona, Hannes Schneider of German firm Hengeler Müller Weitzel Wirtz outlined the strategy he called the integrated team concept. Schneider defines the strategy, which unites Hengeler, US firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and the UK's Slaughter and May, as a direct alternative to the alliances and cross-border mergers between law firms. This is the first time that Hengeler has taken the opportunity to explain the strategy in detail and to market it to such a wide audience. Although the existence of a special relationship has been known for some time, the details can now be revealed.

John A Tessensohn and Shusaku Yamamoto of Shusako Yamamoto Patent Law Office, Kobe, examine the patenting of computerized business methods in Japan

When the SAS was introduced into French corporate law in 1994 it had one major restriciton

The SEC's rules have been troubling high-tech start-ups.

Many forms of security are commonly used as a means of eliminating credit risk and assuring payment.