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  • Dr Berthold Kusserow and Dr Eva Reudelhuber of Oppenhoff & Rädler, Frankfurt, describe the impact that implementation of the Investment Services Directive (ISD) will have on investment services firms in Germany
  • Ways of taking security interests are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Here is a guide, by James E Hogan, Aigoul Kenjebayeva, Gary Sullivan, Robert Starr and Karen Widess of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, Paris, Almaty and London
  • France has introduced new pledging and netting provisions which will be welcomed by participants in structured financings and derivatives deals. By Stéphane Mouy of Banque Paribas and Edward Nalbantian of Watson, Farley & Williams, Paris
  • Mark Daley of Berwin Leighton, London and Francesco Seassaro of Carnelutti, London reports on legislation which may mean the demise of a convenient cross-border borrowing structure
  • Regulatory confusion and continuing uncertainties are not standing in the way of business in Russia. Lawyers are finding their market booming. By Alex Lennane
  • Vietnam has reached agreement in principle with its creditor banks on the restructuring of its US$1 billion debt. The move should allow Vietnam to resume commercial borrowing in the international capital markets at more favourable interest rates.
  • Southern England utility Southern Water was the object of rival bids from UK utilities ScottishPower and Southern Electric. ScottishPower made a £1.56 billion (US$2.36 billion) hostile takover bid which was followed by an agreed cash and shares offer of £1.6 billion from rival Southern Electric. ScottishPower's subsequent offer of £1.67 billion went wholly unconditional on August 7.
  • USAA, the US's biggest direct home and car insurance company, is planning an unusual sale of $500 million in bonds on the capital markets. The bonds would be tied to the company's hurricane losses. Holders would have to surrender their principal if USAA is forced to cover more than US$1 billion in claims caused by any single hurricane in the next year. In return, they will receive a risk premium on top of the normal bond market return.
  • US firm Dewey Ballantine and the UK's Theodore Goddard have broken up their four-office joint venture in central and eastern Europe, with Dewey buying Theodore out. The divorce of the former partners follows the split in the firms' London office when Dewey announced plans for a fully independent office (see International Financial Law Review, June 1996, page 4).