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  • At a time when the UK economy needs every trick in the book to stay healthy, a weakened securitization market would be a serious blow. In this month’s IFLR, Ian Field and Jennifer Marshall of Allen & Overy, London, argue that just such a blow could be about to land. The proposed UK law on insolvency will, they say, create confusion over the right of secured creditors in structured finance issues to appoint a receiver. Without this, such deals would become almost impossible
  • Simmons & Simmons has become the first UK firm to offer full-service advice on Japanese law. Simmons has teamed up with TMI Associates, a respected firm that was created in 1990 as a breakaway from Nishimura's intellectual property practice, and has since expanded to cover general corporate work.
  • Mayer, Brown & Platt is set poach three partners from its German rivals, after taking its new banking and finance head from Clifford Chance Pünder.
  • Shearman expands Paris bankruptcy practice
  • Sidley Austin Brown & Wood has closed two mortgage-backed deals totalling $3.4 billion. The US firm's London office advised Morgan Stanley & Co International (MSIL) on three UK and Irish deals and is on the brink of closing another deal for UK bank Northern Rock.
  • Despite China having acceded to the New York Convention almost 15 years ago, upholding an award under the Convention is still full of uncertainty. Mark Lin, a consultant to Lovells, Hong Kong, explains how best to secure enforcement
  • The continuing collapse in share prices is making it increasingly hard for companies to raise cash. In August, IFLR showed how securitization could help telcos. This month, Christian Parker and Martin Dunton of Norton Rose explain the role convertible and exchangeable bonds can play
  • Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has represented the lenders on the $262.5 million financing of the Salalah privatization and power project in Oman.
  • The Brazilian senate has approved legislation to protect minority shareholders. The Corporations Law Reform Bill, which was passed on September 20, will also grant the country's securities and exchange commission, the CVM, increased independence from the government.
  • Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has named Anthony Root as managing partner of its Hong Kong office. Root succeeds Douglas Tanner, who has relocated to Palo Alto, California, to head Milbank's new Silicon Valley office.