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By the M&A practice group of Smith Lyons LLP, Toronto

M&A activity in the UK Nigel Boardman and Stephen Cooke Slaughter and May, London

Public offers By Carl-Olof Bouveng and Robert Hansson of Advokatfirman Lindahl, Stockholm

Mergers and acquisitions of companies By Juan Eduardo Palma and Juan Paulo Ovalle Irarrazaval, Vial y Palma Abogados, Santiago

Goulart Penteado, Iervolino e Lefosse - Advogados

By Adriano Chaves and Daniel V de Azevedo Barros of Goulart Penteado, Iervolino e Lefosse - Advogados, São Paulo

Chilean Securities Act

The Ontario government’s rejection of the Securities Commission proposals for derivatives regulation threatens to destroy five years of work. Margaret Grottenthaler of Stikeman Elliott, Toronto, reflects on the government’s negative response and asks where the market can go from here

The federal government recently passed the Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (No.1) Act (FSLA) which continues the government's financial sector reform agenda. It builds on the financial sector legislation already implemented by the government in response to the recommendations of the 1997 Financial System Inquiry.

The French securitization market has experienced a significant boom over the last 18 months, as corporates and French financial institutions alike learn to reap the benefits of an increasingly flexible and reliable legal framework introduced by the law of December 23 1988. This established a new type of entity, the fonds commun de créances (FCC) aimed at providing market participants with a vehicle for securitization structures. In so doing, France was the first civil law country to deal successfully with the constraints imposed by the civil law regime in terms of the transfer of assets and create an entity capable of matching the flexibility available in Anglo Saxon jurisdictions.