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  • Since legislation was first introduced in 1995, the Brazilian tax authorities have been developing their legislation in relation to the taxation of profits earned by Brazilian subsidiaries and associated companies abroad.
  • Chiomenti loses four to Freshfields
  • Money laundering is a key target in the battle to cut off funds to terrorist organizations. In October the US passed legislation to crack down on laundered funds by requiring financial institutions to use strict compliance and due diligence programmes. Danforth Newcomb, Rachel Barnes and Saamir Elshihabi of Shearman & Sterling, New York, explain the implications
  • Like the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET; www.efet.org) has set up a standard master agreement for the delivery and acceptance of electricity (the General Agreement). As in the schedule to the ISDA Master Agreements, the parties may choose between alternative concepts and may also fine tune the General Agreement to their liking in the election sheet.
  • Singapore's first listing of a real estate investment trust (Reit), one of its most eagerly awaited deals, has collapsed. The decision to pull the initial public offering (IPO) of SingMall Property was taken in an effort to prevent poisoning the future of the Reit market.
  • Slaughter and May is to benefit from the unexpected defection from Clifford Chance of a 10-lawyer securitization team to independent Italian firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo.
  • The development of cross-border securitization deals with new asset streams offers the prospect of rich pickings. Sara Ver-Bruggen reports from Seoul on some of the latest transactions and the prospects for the liberalization in the legal market
  • Whitney Pidot and former Shearman & Sterling partner, US ambassador to China Clark Randt In a move unprecedented among US firms, Shearman & Sterling has relocated its global managing partner to Asia. Whitney Pidot, who is also a member of the four-man executive committee, has stepped down from the top job to become managing partner for Asia in a move that has left even his New York colleagues surprised.
  • Hengeler Mueller has used a new residential mortgage-backed securitization structure to close a synthetic securitization for the German financial institution Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank. The German firm created the PROVIDE-Platform for the euro 1 billion ($875 million) synthetic securitization of residential mortgage receivables held by the state-owned Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).
  • A tough year for capital markets lawyers in Belgium and The Netherlands, and the effects of disasters such as Sabena’s bankruptcy, have overshadowed the Euronext merger. With firms taking a hard look at their practices, what are the prospects for lawyers? Thomas Williams reports from Amsterdam and Brussels