International Financial Law Review

Issue: XXII, 4

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IFLR awards 2003

• Rewarding the best firms in Europe and Asia for last year's most innovative deals: Europe  25 - 33
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Features - Europe

• Special purpose vehicles: Ireland revamps tax regime Cormac Kissane on legislation that means deals that were impossible before will now be easy.  55 - 56
  Kissane, Cormac

Features - International

• International Bond Survey Allen & Overy and Linklaters lead the world's international advisers on tier I debt  21 - 24
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Features - Asia

• How Chapter 11 made China Netcom's deal China Netcom bought the main assets of Asia Global Crossing under the protection of bankruptcy proceedings in the US  61 - 62
  Schick, Sandor
  Turner, Edward
  Gelencsér, Etienne

International Briefings

• Canada - Second thoughts on independent committees Finland - Changes to legislation on credit institutions and investment firms Hungary - Acquisition of temporary control Italy - Central bank's position on securitization and repayment clauses  69 - 76
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Features - Americas

• Accounting rules: saving US structured finance New rules from the Financial Accounting Standards Board show that rulemakers have learnt from the Enron disaster  63 - 68
  Feldkamp, Frederick L

Cutting Edge

• - Taiwan opens market with first securitization - China completes first Sino-foreign NPL venture - Freshfields and Paul Hastings close Telkom South Africa IPO - Hengeler advises on Germany's biggest mandatory convertible  10 - 13
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IFLR awards 2003

• Rewarding the best firms in Europe and Asia for last year's most innovative deals: Asia  37 - 47
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Features - International

• Surviving the US reporting regime for foreign issuers Unsuspecting foreign companies can get caught by US reporting requirements.  51 - 54
  Tanner, Douglas

Features - Comment

• Why Germany will not drop tax on corporate loans Rules that tax bank loans to German companies are unlikely to change.  17 - 17
  Krause, Martin
  Hauenschild, Karin

Features - Europe

• Regulators add confusion to French securitizations Rules to promote convergence between accounting standards will force originators to make transactions more complex.  14 - 16
  Paper, Xavier
  Parolai, Richard

Features - International

• The flaw in the SEC's new attorney rules Watered-down proposals on attorney conduct will fail in their objective of discouraging corporate wrongdoing  57 - 60
  Bernstein, David

Cover Story

• Why banks must look again at market flex and MAC Lenders should be rewriting the clauses in their agreements that protect them from unforeseen risks.  18 - 20
  Gray, Richard
  Holmes, Patrick
  Muzilla, Kevin

News

• - S Megga reveals flaws in Hong Kong rescue culture - Lawyers dismiss Spitzer call to investigate fairness opinions - NYSE clarifies rules on independent directors - Sarbanes-Oxley claims first European success  3 - 9
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Features - Asia

• What Taiwan can teach China about distressed debt Regulators must encourage foreign investors if the non-performing loan market in China is to succeed.  48 - 50
  Bryson, William
  Dudek, Mitch
  Bunnell, Beth
• Improving due diligence in Japan Japanese issuers are often reluctant to disclose information in securities offerings for cultural, historical and structural reasons.  34 - 36
  Schwab, Joshua
  Perera, Piyasena