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  • Andersen/ Garrigues merger is completed
    Spanish firms J & A Garrigues and Arthur Andersen ALT have completed their merger with partners approving the new partnership on January 31 1997. The firm will be known as J & A Garrigues Andersen with Andersen staff relocating to Garrigues' offices as much for symbolic as practical reasons. "We want to differentiate them clearly and move them away from where they were," comments Ramon Lladó, partner from the former J & A Garrigues.
    March 01 1997
  • Morgan Stanley wins Dean Witter Discover
    International investment bank Morgan Stanley is to merge with US retail financial services firm Dean Witter, Discover. The merger will create the US's biggest securities firm in terms of capital, with an estimated market capitalization of US$20 billion and total assets under management of US$270 billion.
    March 01 1997
  • Stikeman opens in Australia
    Canada's Stikeman, Elliott opened an office in Sydney on February 4. Sydney is the firm's 14th office, and the ninth outside Canada. The office will be staffed by Roy Randall, Brian Hansen and Elizabeth Turner.
    March 01 1997
  • Switzerland
    The revised provisions of the Swiss Code of Obligations (CO) regarding joint stock companies have improved the legal position of 'participants'. A 'participant' is the holder of participation certificates, which are part of the participation capital and have a par value.
    March 01 1997
  • Italy
    CONSOB, the Italian regulator, is granted by LD No. 415/96 (enacted to implement the ISD Directive) the power to regulate trading of listed financial instruments in official markets. On December 10 1996 CONSOB approved Resolution 10358 which, in some cases, imposes trading of listed financial instruments in official markets and, in other cases, lays down the conditions for over-the-counter (OTC) transactions.
    March 01 1997
  • Slovak bank issues subordinated bonds
    Slovak bank Vseobecná úverová banka completed the first east European bank's issue of subordinated bonds to private investors.
    February 01 1997
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    Linklaters & Paines dominates booming market
    For the first time, International Financial Law Review has identified the leading firms in the Yankee bond market. Meanwhile, Linklaters continues to dominate the Eurobond market. Richard Forster and Samantha Wigham report
    February 01 1997
  • Morgan Stanley US$1.55 billion repo facility
    Morgan Stanley & Co International has completed a US$1.55 billion multicurrency revolving securities repo facility agreement. Barclays Bank arranged the facility.
    February 01 1997
  • Europe defies US over Helms-Burton, Iran and Libya
    Jane M Freeberg of Watson, Farley & Williams, New York, reports on the EU Regulation blocking compliance with US sanctions against firms trading with Cuba, Iran and Libya
    February 01 1997
  • Direct effect doctrine opens Germany to EU firms
    Peter Erwe and Peter Waltz of Oppenhoff & Rädler, Frankfurt, report that investment firms from other EU member states can now take advantage of the single passport under the Investment Services Directive in spite of delays in its implementation into German law
    February 01 1997
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