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  • ScottishPower wins takeover battle for UK utility
    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.
    August 31 1996
  • Dewey and Theodore complete divorce
    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).
    August 31 1996
  • Akin Gump under pressure in Brussels
    The Brussels operation of Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is under severe pressure after the loss of four lawyers. Name partner Marc Dassesse has left Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, Feld & Dassesse to become a partner at the Brussels office of Washington-based McKenna & Cuneo. He will be joined by Akin Gump partner Anabelle Ewing and lawyers Jan van Besien and Isabelle d'Arthuys.
    August 31 1996
  • Ethical Italian
    Dr Franco Riolo, general manager of the legal and tax department at Banca Commerciale Italiana, talks to Diana Bentley
    August 31 1996
  • Comment
    Philip Wood of Allen & Overy, London, foresees a legal revolution, cutting the divides and confusions between legal systems, and argues that lawyers should do more to promote reform
    August 31 1996
  • Cyprus
    Since the establishment of the official Cyprus Stock Exchange in March 1996, large financial institutions have launched investment funds whose public offerings were oversubscribed almost by a factor of eight.
    August 31 1996
  • United States
    What is the relationship between a participant in a secured loan and the debtor when the debtor becomes bankrupt? This question has troubled many participants concerned that they may not be able to assert rights in the collateral during the course of the bankruptcy proceeding.
    August 31 1996
  • Davis Polk & Wardwell leads the world's equity advisers
    In this, the first ever survey of the legal advisers on international equity issues, International Financial Law Review identifies the leading firms in the field and discovers why they head the tables. Richard Forster reports
    August 31 1996
  • Italy continues to attract
    International firms are continuing to formalize their operations in the Italian market. Minnesota-based firm Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has formed an association with Italian firm, Pisano De Vito Maiano & Catucci. Pisano has offices in both Rome and Milan.
    August 31 1996
  • Asian litigation
    Lenders always seek to protect their interests over their loans or security when borrowers go into liquidation. However, it has increasingly been of interest to borrowers to know what happens to the loans or security when lenders go into liquidation. The statutory right of set-off in liquidation in Hong Kong in these circumstances was dealt with by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Tam Wing Chuen & Anor v Bank of Credit & Commerce Hong Kong Ltd (in Liquidation) [1996] 1 HKC 692.
    August 31 1996
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