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  • Australian funds manager in US$1 billion public offering
    The Australian Mutual Provident Society recently carried out a public offering of its 9.1% interest in Westpac Banking Corporation for US$1 billion. The Westpac Corporation shares were sold by Australian Mutual Provident in the form of STRYPES (Structured Yield Product Exchangeable for Stock), underwritten by Merrill Lynch.
    February 01 1998
  • LeBoeuf opens in Houston
    New York's LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP has opened in Houston. It will be the firm's 19th office and its 15th in the US.
    February 01 1998
  • UK shipping lawyers ally with Singapore banking firm
    UK firm Sinclair Roche & Temperley is to form an alliance with Singapore firm Colin Ng & Partners. Sinclair Roche, which specializes in shipping law, is to cooperate as closely with the Asian banking firm as it can without breaking strict bar regulations. A merger is forbidden by the Singapore law society.
    February 01 1998
  • Swedish firm loses rainmaker
    Swedish firm Hellström & Partners, Stockholm, announced on January 12 it is excluding star finance partner Peter Sederowsky from the firm. The announcement comes after Sederowsky, who has joined rival firm Setterwalls, announced in his own letters that Hellström & Partners was to cease operating.
    February 01 1998
  • Montreal firms merge to bolster position
    Montreal firms McMaster Meighen and Mackenzie Gervais are to merge in March 1998. The merged firm will be called McMaster Gervais and will be one of Montreal's biggest, with about 100 lawyers.
    February 01 1998
  • UAE
    Central Bank Circular No. 19 of 1997 establishes guidelines for banks, finance and investment companies to follow when lending funds to persons who wish to subscribe to shares of public joint stock companies. The growing number of initial public offerings of shares in public joint stock companies in the UAE represents an attractive and relatively new investment opportunity for UAE nationals.
    February 01 1998
  • Swiss ease recovery of securities on the bankruptcy of custodians
    In theory, depositors of securities with a custodian have always been able to reclaim them if the custodian goes bankrupt. But this theory has never been tested in the courts. New legislation removes any doubt. By Urs Schenker of Baker & McKenzie, Zurich
    February 01 1998
  • How to defend a hostile takeover bid in Germany
    Corporate governance and insider trading rules limit the options for a target's management. Long-term planning is essential. By Philip Rogers of Arnheim & Co*, London, and Christian Altvater of Nehm & Co*, Frankfurt
    February 01 1998
  • Tough loan rules control China`s foreign debt exposure
    China's new foreign loans regime bars non-profitable companies from seeking international finance, and also limits the profitable ones. Worries about the Asian crisis have ensured caution. By Guanxi Zheng of Stikeman, Elliott, Hong Kong
    February 01 1998
  • Quebec relaxes foreign issuer rules
    Quebec has moved to drop the requirement that prospectuses must be published in French, as well as other discouragements to foreign issuers. By Andrew Fleming of Ogilvy Renault, London
    February 01 1998
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