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  • Many times the future of Hong Kong has been written off. Many times the region has bounced back. By Nick Ferguson
  • Linklaters has advised a consortium of private equity houses on Europe's most expensive leveraged buyout. The €4.9 billion ($4.78 billion) acquisition of Legrand is the biggest private equity buyout for a decade, will be the largest mezzanine financing in Europe and the biggest high-yield financing in France.
  • John D Moore of Goldman Sachs looks at what the new law means for companies
  • A new EU regulation has been introduced with the stated objectives of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of insolvency proceedings with a cross-border element and avoiding the incentive for parties to transfer assets or proceedings within the EU in an attempt to forum-shop. The new regulation, Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings Within the EU (except Denmark), came into force on May 31 2002.
  • Lukoil has proved that a Russian company can cope with international standards of disclosure by becoming the first Russian issuer to successfully list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The Russian government postponed the privatization of 5.9% of its stake, citing poor market conditions, but the company went ahead with the London listing.
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Deutsche Bank on two securitizations, building on the firm's relationship with the bank for structured finance work in Europe. The first of the two deals, for the Buhrmann Group, was one of the few structures so far to securitize trade receivables originated by different subsidiaries in different jurisdictions, financing them using both commercial paper and medium-term funding.
  • It is the largest economy in Europe, yet Germany has managed only a handful of public projects backed by private money.
  • South Korea's competition watchdog has said some of the country's largest companies could have to sell shareholdings worth $2.9 billion or risk losing their voting rights on the stakes. The Fair Trade Commission has accused the Korean conglomerates (chaebols) of violating Korean laws aimed at limiting the size of companies.
  • By Michael Evans
  • David Deck of Shearman & Sterling on why the peculiarities of Japan’s rent laws make real estate-backed deals tricky