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  • Singapore
    Electronic Filing System
    April 30 1997
  • Spain
    Before they can be listed on a Spanish exchange, the shares of investment companies and holdings in investment funds must meet a minimum diffusion requirement which stipulates that they must have at least 100 shareholders or unitholders, whose participations must not exceed 25%.
    April 30 1997
  • Cedel wins SEC exemption to clear T-bills
    US government bonds are at last being integrated with other major government bonds and Eurobonds into the international clearing system. By Kathleen Tyson-Quah of KTQ Consulting, London, and Seth Weinberger of Mayer Brown & Platt, Chicago
    April 30 1997
  • European Union
    The Commission has adopted a proposal modifying the Capital Adequacy Directive (93/6) to reflect the 1996 amendment to the Basle Capital Accord, which comes into force at the end of 1997.
    April 30 1997
  • Polish pledge law will free up debt capital
    The new law on pledges in Poland should give project finance and other asset-backed lenders the protection they have lacked in the past. By Tomasz Dabrowski and George Macdonald of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, Warsaw and London
    April 30 1997
  • Switzerland
    In the largest ever leveraged buyout effected on the European continent, Doughty Hanson & Co Ltd acquired the Geberit Group. Doughty Hanson, acting as general partner of various limited partnerships, controls Geberit International SA which purchased the shares of the Group's parent company, Geberit Holding AG, from certain members of the Geberit family who had held all of the shares in Geberit Holding AG either directly or through four personal holding companies.
    April 30 1997
  • Sweden
    As mentioned in last month's International Financial Law Review (see page 56) a parliamentary committee has suggested a wide-ranging reform of the Companies Act, in particular proposing rules allowing companies to repurchase their own shares.
    April 30 1997
  • Denmark
    The Danish rules on netting are found in Sections 57 and 58 of the Securities Trading Act (STA) of December 20 1995 which entered into force on May 1 1996.
    April 30 1997
  • Cyprus
    The long-awaited Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Law was finally passed by parliament in April 1997. The M&A Law is based on EU Directives and is fully harmonized with EU rules.
    April 30 1997
  • Telkom South Africa attracts record inward investment
    SBC Communications of the US and Telekom Malaysia have formed a consortium to buy a 30% stake in state-owned Telkom South Africa. The deal will cost the consortium US$1.26 billion, and will be the biggest direct foreign investment in South Africa.
    April 30 1997
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