International Financial Law Review

Issue: XX, 2

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International Briefings

• Germany  58 - 59
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Features

• Lawyers capitalize on good times for project finance. Washington has traditionally lagged behind New York when it comes to cutting edge project finance work. But with development agencies in the capital generating new and complex deals, firms are   - 
  Nicholson, Tom
• Asia-Pacific: Corporate restructuring in China - a path to backdoor listings. Steven Blayney of Lovells, Hong Kong, presents two case studies illustrating how China's new generation of companies can use acquisitions as a means to gain a backdoor listing  33 - 36
  Blayney, Steven

Cover Story

• How to prepare for the Asian LBO boom. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed an explosion of mergers and acquisitions activity in the US and Europe. From this maelstrom of corporate restructuring emerged a new generation of funds designed to finance buy-outs  23 - 26
  Gray, Richard

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International Briefings

• Kazakhstan  59 - 59
  Masters, Curtis
  Orekhov, Gennadiy
• Colombia  57 - 57
  Robledo, Jaime
• Brazil  56 - 56
  Filippozzi, Eliana Maria
• Belgium  58 - 58
  Olislaegers, Michael

Features

• Europe: Neuer Market tightens rules to calm markets. The Neuer Market is taking action to try and prevent a repetition of the collapse in technology stocks witnessed last year. Markus Pfüller and Christiane Ehrich of Clifford Chance Pünder, Frankfurt,  11 - 
  Ehrich, Christiane
  Pfüller, Markus
• Asia-Pacific: Meeting the challenges of cross-border offerings: part two. In the final part of the roundtable discussion, a distinguished panel of securities lawyers from the Asia-Pacific region discuss more of the unique issues a company must tackle  27 - 32
  Mayne, Laurie
  Kriewaldt, Jeremy
  Revell, Stephen
  Yoneda, Takashi
  Tang, Michael
  Wong, Lucien

News

• Untitled  3 - 10
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Features

• Asia-Pacific: Australia looks to unified financial services regime. Australia is set to create one of the most unified and advanced financial services regimes in the world. Karen Den-Toll, director of financial services at Clayton Utz in Sydney,  37 - 41
  Den-Toll, Karen

International Briefings

• Cayman Islands  56 - 57
  Lowe, Gavin

Features

• Americas: Getting to grips with the new Form 20-F. The 2000 annual report season is nearly upon us, this year with the added complication of new disclosure rules for companies filing a Form 20-F. Margaret Tahyar and Marcelle Joseph of Davis Polk &  14 - 18
  Tahyar, Margaret
  Joseph, Marcelle

International Briefings

• United Kingdom  60 - 60
  Evans, Darryl
  Sadler, Anita
• Switzerland  59 - 60
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Features

• Americas: SEC rules on the state of independent directors. Already in 2001 the SEC has introduced a number of measures intended to promote the role of independent directors, Kenneth Berman and Elizabeth Kaplan of Debevoise & Plimptom in Washington, DC,  19 - 22
  Kaplan, Elizabeth
  Berman, Kenneth

International Briefings

• Argentina  55 - 56
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• Canada  55 - 55
  Gord, Leslie
• Turkey  60 - 60
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Features

• Market focus: Ireland and Washington DC: Irish lawyers prepare to share the spoils. With a booming economy, the Irish government has decided to plough money into developing the country's infrastructure. The gold rush of project work will give rich  42 - 48
  Ver-Bruggen, Sara

International Briefings

• Australia  55 - 55
  Teague, Paula
• Uruguay  57 - 58
  Bergstein, Jonás
• Poland  59 - 59
  Biedecki, Ludomir
• Finland  58 - 
  Himonas, Dimitrios