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  • 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
  • European Union
    Ruling in favour of the international chemical group Bayer AG, the Court of First Instance has suspended the Commission decision of January 10 1996 which stated that the activities of Bayer Spain and Bayer France, subsidiaries of Bayer AG, constituted an 'agreement' contrary of Article 85 of the EC Treaty.
    August 31 1996
  • Singapore
    The Banking (Amendment) Act, passed on May 21 1996, will require locally-incorporated banks to raise their minimum shareholders' funds to approximately US$1 billion from the current minimum of approximately US$540 million.
    August 31 1996
  • Hong Kong
    The major Hong Kong conglomerates are in the grips of spin-off fever. Cheong Kong, Henderson Land, New World Development and Wai Kee Holdings have all streamlined their operations in the past year through the use of spin-offs.
    August 31 1996
  • China
    More and more foreign investors are exploring the opportunities that exist in the undervalued assets of China's enterprises through mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, the takeover of a listed company in China is mainly governed by Section 4 of the Interim Regulations of Shares Issuing and Trading (the Interim Regulations) which was issued by the State Council Securities Committee on April 22 1993. Its major takeover provision is the 30% trigger point such that:
    August 31 1996
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