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  • The implementation of the EU Directive on investment services has been the ideal opportunity to reform Italy's securities regime. By Susanna Beltramo and Sabrina Bruno of Studio Legale Beltramo, Rome
  • The advent of internet-based transactional systems challenges the traditional financial regulatory system. By Thomas Crocker of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, Washington DC
  • Denis M Forster of the Law Offices of Denis M Forster, New York, who advised Procter & Gamble and its trial counsel in its suit against Bankers Trust, offers a first-hand analysis of the court's holdings in the case
  • The Republic of Italy is offering $2.1 billion of government bonds exchangeable for shares or American Depositary Shares in the state owned insurance company Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni (INA). It is the first time a European government has used exchangeable securities to privatize government assets. The offering is structured as $1.06 billion of 5% Privitization Exchangeable Notes (PENs) and L1,630 billion ($1.06 billion) of 6.5% PENs.
  • The public equity offering of UK nuclear power company British Energy closed on July 10 with the privatization yielding £1.4 million ($2.18 billion) for the UK government.
  • US broadcasting group Westinghouse Electric is to merge with Infinity Broadcasting in a $3.9 billion deal which requires the approval of the Federal Communications Commission. Infinity shareholders will receive 1.7 Westinghouse shares for each share held if the transaction is approved.
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  • The New York office of US firm Dechert Price & Rhoads has expanded its Securitization Practice Group with three lateral hires from US competitors.
  • UK firm Freshfields has taken on Kent Rowey, a US qualified lawyer, as partner in the International Project Finance Group. He joins from the London office of US firm Perkins Coie.