International Financial Law Review

Issue: XXII, 8

http://www.lawmoney.com

Features - Europe

• Are bond taxes holding central Europe back? - Countries in the region must scrap withholding tax if they want local issuers to access the international markets more effectively  39 - 40
  Eastwell, Nick
  Kemp, Ton

Features - International

• Understanding Isda's credit derivative rules - Isda's 2003 Definitions resolve some old issues and introduce new ones. Ed O'Connell and Kristin Boggiano explain what the changes mean for lawyers  23 - 26
  O'Connell, Ed

Features - Europe

• Eckhardt brings unwelcome news for creditors - An English Privy Council judgment suggests creditors may have less robust claims than they thought against companies in liquidation  21 - 22
  Cain, Brian

Features - International

• Eliminating uncertainty in Islamic financing - Kenneth Aboud, Hooman Sabeti and Asmaa Al-Shabibi explain how to avoid the types of risk forbidden by Sharia law on Islamic financing deals  41 - 42
  Sabeti, Hooman
  Aboud, Kenneth
  Al-Shabibi, Asmaa

Special Focus

• US financial statements: a guide for non-US issuers  57 - 77
  Cohen, Adam
  Cohen, Alexander

Cover Story

• Moody's takes tough look at role of trustees - The agency is re-examining the job of trustees on asset-backed deals. Senior vice president Claire Robinson explains how its new stance might affect ratings  13 - 17
  Robinson, Claire

Features - Asia

• What liberalization means for lawyers in Japan - International firms must overcome cultural barriers to recruit top local lawyers. Meanwhile, local firms must improve their client handling techniques  27 - 29
  Crooke, Andrew

Features - International

• Tackling restructuring in emerging markets (part III) - In his final report, Steven Kargman examines three more steps that creditors should take when their emerging market debtors face difficulties  43 - 46
  Kargman, Steve

Cutting Edge

• - Regulatory confusion casts shadow over launch of UK Pfandbriefe - France sees first whole business securitization of lease receivables  7 - 10
  ,

Features - Europe

• Why Europe's prospectus regime may fail issuers - Plans to create a single passport for European issuers could disappoint those who want to see a single capital market  18 - 20
  Bartos, Jim
  Leppert, Michael

Features - Asia

• Interview: Tae-Shin Kwon, Korean Ministry of Finance - Andrew Crooke meets the man in charge of wooing foreign investors to Korea and asks how government reforms will attract foreign businesses  50 - 56
  Crooke, Andrew

International Briefings

• Austria - Federal Act on International Insolvency Law Brazil - Restrictions eased on options trading Canada - The Canadian response to Sarbanes-Oxley Cayman Islands - Anti-money laundering rules for mutual funds and administrators  78 - 84
  ,

Features - Asia

• How foreign competition will benefit Korea World Trade Organization rules will force Korea's legal market to open  47 - 49
  Crooke, Andrew

News

• - Shareholders to challenge Wella decision as unconstitutional - SEC releases plans for greater shareholder power  3 - 6
  ,

Features - Asia

• Is Japan ready for poison pills? - Japanese companies face a growing threat from hostile takeovers. Andrew Crooke asks whether US-style corporate defence techniques can be applied in Tokyo  30 - 38
  Crooke, Andrew

• - Mirvac securitizes revolving pool of un-built properties  11 - 12
  ,