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Davis Polk advises on $1.3 billion stock offering

Arthur Levitt, the longest serving chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC, is to step down in mid-February. While his term of office does not officially expire until 2003, it is common for holders of the post to leave government when a new president takes over.

Not so long ago, project finance work for lawyers in Washington, DC didn’t offer much in the way of cutting edge transactions. But with development agencies setting the pace with more – and more complex – projects, there’s plenty of exciting work around for leading firms. Tom Nicholson reports

With the economy in a healthy state, the Irish government is looking to develop the country’s infrastructure. The expected goldrush of private public partnership schemes will give a new boost to local firms. But the rich pickings are already attracting the attention of big international firms. Sara Ver-Bruggen reports from Dublin

Hong Kong’s mobile operators have waited since late last year to find out how they will be asked to pay for the territory’s 3G licences. Michael Reede and Alana Triscott of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Hong Kong reveal how the sale will work

The Ontario government’s rejection of the Securities Commission proposals for derivatives regulation threatens to destroy five years of work. Margaret Grottenthaler of Stikeman Elliott, Toronto, reflects on the government’s negative response and asks where the market can go from here

Decision 486 of the Andean Community Commission, the new Intellectual Property Law for the member countries of the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela), grants additional protection for well-known trademarks. This protection guards well-known signs against unauthorized registration of a domain name, in all countries of the Community.

Chilean Securities Act

Structural and cultural obstacles within South Korea's takeover market may stifle plans by the government to boost mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the country, say some lawyers.

The French securitization market has experienced a significant boom over the last 18 months, as corporates and French financial institutions alike learn to reap the benefits of an increasingly flexible and reliable legal framework introduced by the law of December 23 1988. This established a new type of entity, the fonds commun de créances (FCC) aimed at providing market participants with a vehicle for securitization structures. In so doing, France was the first civil law country to deal successfully with the constraints imposed by the civil law regime in terms of the transfer of assets and create an entity capable of matching the flexibility available in Anglo Saxon jurisdictions.