International Financial Law Review

Issue: XXII, 7

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Cover Story

• Could Brussels drive share trading out of Europe?  17 - 23
  Ilkson, Atilla
  Harding, Mark
  Ross, Verena
  McKee, Michael
  Belchambers, Anthony
  Herbst, Jonathan

Special Focus

• Luxembourg - What Luxembourg's capital markes have to offer - Is Luxembourg losing time in Europe's governance race? - Mergers made easy in Luxembourg - How to set up a private equity fund - Hedge funds prosper under new regime  62 - 73
  Niedner, Claude
  Pfeiffer, Françoise
  Schmitt Steichen, Bonn

Features - International

• Now Indosuez made its Russian counterparties pay - Grant McCrea looks at a precedent-setting judgment on choice-of-law clauses in swap contracts  39 - 40
  McCrea, Grant

Features - Asia

• Interview: Nicole Yuen, UBS head of China equities  51 - 53
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Straw Polls

• IFLR asks bankers, investors and counsel what they really think about their regulators - Singapore - Hong Kong  45 - 48
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Features - Europe

• Austria profits as investors shop in central Europe - Michael Evans on how Austria is prospering as a gateway to central Europe  29 - 34
  Evans, Michael
• Securitization: Germany's disappointing tax reform - The government has lifted restrictions on issuance by banks, but corporates have been forgotten  24 - 27
  Evans, Michael

International Briefings

• Austria - Financial collateral arrangements Canada - Electronic data rooms in M&A China - Takeover law Finland - Statutory limitation periods Germany - Mandatory bid exemptions Hong Kong - Regulation of sponsors and independent financial advisors  74 - 80
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Features - International

• Isda successor rules leave derivatives mismatch - New definitions are less than perfect  35 - 37
  Clancy, Patrick

Features - Asia

• Why banks are split over China's foreign broker scheme - Can a programme for foreign investors succeed without wider reforms  49 - 50
  Crooke, Andrew

News

• News  3 - 5
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Letter

• - Singapore regulator clarifies prospectus regime  14 - 14
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Features - International

• The class action threat to sovereign workouts - Do recent actions brought by disgruntled investors in Argentine bonds herald a new trend in sovereign workouts?  41 - 44
  Orta, David
  Debevoise, Whitney

Cutting Edge

• - Indonesia sees first new-issue and exchange deal - Foreigners avoid exchange triggers with China convertible - Pusan port development brings limited-recourse funding to Korea  6 - 13
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Features - Comment

• Why Hong Kong disclosure rules are too tough - Sponsors face too much responsibility for informing the market  15 - 15
  Fletcher, Stephen

Features - International

• Successful restructuring in developing countries (part II) - Steven Kargman looks at managing intercreditor negotiations, calculating sustainable debt levels and setting realistic recovery expectations  57 - 61
  Kargman, Steve

Features - Europe

• How the UK Enterprise Act makes warehousing difficult - Bankers are relaxing too soon about the impact of imminent legislation on asset-backed deals. Richard Ambery looks at why some structures may still hit trouble  54 - 56
  Ambery, Richard