International Financial Law Review

Issue: XXII, 9

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Features - International

• How to manage the Latin American debt squeeze - Corporates in Latin America want to refinance their debt but banks are reluctant to lend. Peter Darrow explains how borrowers and lenders should respond to the crisis  27 - 30
  Darrow, Peter

Features - Asia

• China clarifies rules on derivatives trading - Andrew Crooke examines what the new regulations mean for investors  47 - 55
  Crooke, Andrew
• China's new antitrust regime creates confusion - Andrew Crooke asks lawyers to evaluate China's new rules governing M&A  45 - 47
  Crooke, Andrew

Cutting Edge

• - Nanhai petrochemicals closes largest ever Sino-foreign financing - German takeover regime challenged by ProSiebenSat. 1 deal  6 - 9
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Features - Europe

• Greece opens its market to securitization - George Pergamalis explains what market participants need to know about Greece's new regime  31 - 34
  Pergamalis, George

Features - Asia

• Derivatives deals threatened by Korean ruling - A court ruling has created uncertainty over the value of Korean pledges. Joshua Margolis and Chul Hyun Kim explain what international banks need to do now  25 - 26
  Margolis, Joshua
  Kim, Chul Hyun

Features - Europe

• Italy takes new approach to leveraged buyouts - A new regime for LBOs should give comfort to investors over financial assistance rules. But Emma Barraclough identifies deals that could still hit trouble  42 - 44
  Barraclough, Emma

Features - Asia

• The key to structuring Chinese insurance investments - W Seung Chong and Satoshi Naganuma explain how strategic stakes in Chinese companies represent the future for foreign investors  56 - 57
  Chong, W Seung

News

• - US Bar relaxes rules on client information - France promises bankruptcy law overhaul  3 - 5
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Features - Europe

• France's new insider trading rules - Eric Cafritz and James Gillespie explain why France has rejected the tough approach adopted by the US  58 - 58
  Cafritz, Eric
  Gillespie, James
• Why Italy must overhaul its bankruptcy rules - Lawyers say the country's new corporate law reforms will be incomplete without radical changes to its insolvency rules  35 - 40
  Barraclough, Emma

Cover Story

• Lessons from Marconi - The headline restructuring of Marconi exposed the tension between credit derivatives and insolvency workouts  19 - 22
  Frome, Nicholas
  Brown, Claude

Features - Comment

• Real estate investment trusts - Dean Lockhart and Graham Turl explain what Hong Kong must do to make the real estate investment trusts regime a success  13 - 13
  Lockhart, Dean
  Turl, Graham

International Briefings

• Brazil - New regulations accommodate typical features of private equity funds Cayman Islands - Regulation of investment business Czech Republic - New legislation brings collective investment in line with EU  78 - 84
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Close-Up

• - Zest II offers template for managed collateralized debt obligations in Japan - Phu My 3 sets benchmark for Asian power projects  10 - 12
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Features - International

• The solution to sovereign debt restructuring? - Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati caution against believing exit consents offer a problem-free solution to sovereign-debt restructuring  15 - 18
  Gulati, Mitu
  Choi, Stephen

Special Focus

• Mexico - Mexico pushes increased lending by improved loan security Kuri Breña, Sánchez Ugarte, Corcuera y Aznar Abogados - Mexico takes on corporate governance challenge PricewaterhouseCoopers  59 - 77
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Features - Comment

• In defence of class action - David Skeel responds to an article in July's IFLR criticising the role of class action in sovereign debt workouts  23 - 24
  Skeel, David