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Danaharta, Malaysia's state-owned asset management company, has finally completed its first asset-backed securitization (ABS). Allen & Overy won the mandate against inevitable competition from Clifford Chance and Freshfields, the two firms that have traditionally dominated the Asian securitization market.

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).

The Italian Constitution has recently been amended by constitutional law No 3, October 18 2001, in line with the general trend towards federalism.

Earlier this year the European Commission proposed the introduction of a new directive on market abuse. The proposed directive deals with insider dealing and market manipulation, and the definition of these activities is large enough to ensure that new abusive practices will fall under its scope of application.

Bond traders have urged the European Commission to soften proposed changes to market regulation, saying radical reform could thwart the innovation of electronic trading systems.

Entry to the WTO means that China must take a hard look at the way it distinguishes between domestic and imported technology. Warren Rothman and Grace Chen of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, Beijing, reveal the unlevel playing field for foreign technology providers

Chiomenti loses four to Freshfields

Jones Day Reavis & Pogue has established a joint enterprise with Showa Law Office in Tokyo to strengthen its mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and IP practices.

In alleged response to an insider bid by 30% shareholder CAIH in the recent contest for control of Hurricane Hydrocarbons, the Hurricane board declared a special dividend payable by way of senior unsecured notes. A controversy arose because the notes contained a change-of-control provision that would be triggered by the acquisition of more than 50% of the Hurricane shares. Upon a change-of-control, the holders of the notes could elect to have the notes redeemed. The net effect was a potential cash depletion of $200 million from Hurricane's cash flow.

The arrival of the euro has far reaching implications in areas such as monetary obligations, legacy currency securities and share capital. Geoffrey Yeowart of Lovells, London, answers some of the key questions for those getting ready to change over