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  • The Spanish Government has approved the creation of a new technology market for high growth companies. The Spanish National Securities Market Commission's (CNMV) Circular 1/2000 of February 10 develops a Ministerial Order of December 22 1999. The main features of the Spanish New Market are as follows:
  • From January 1 2000 the supervisory authorities for almost all financial, securities and insurance laws of the Netherlands were given authority to impose both fines and cease and desist orders reinforced by monetary penalties, thereby greatly increasing their powers of enforcement. Until now the supervisory authorities' most important means of enforcement was to ask the public prosecutor to start a criminal investigation into the alleged offence, which only rarely led to a prosecution or conviction.
  • In November 1998 the Finnish Ministry of Justice appointed a working group to provide a comprehensive assessment of the need to amend the Finnish Companies Act and other legislation applicable to limited liability companies as well as to propose a procedure for the implementation of amendments.
  • UK firm Linklaters has had a great start to the year, acting as lead manager to French bank Paribas on the first European securitization of the new millennium.
  • Brazil was the country which attracted most foreign investment in Latin America in 1999, receiving $31 billion of the $97 billion directed to the region last year, according to a preliminary study conducted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
  • Baker & McKenzie has acted as both international and Italian counsel to leading German bank WestLB, on a securitization of Italian lease receivables.
  • Union Fenosa Desarrollo y Accion Exterior (Union Fenosa ACEX), Spain's third largest electricity company has retained the services of two law firms to advise on recommended mandatory cash offers by a subsidiary, for UK company Cambridge Water.
  • Baker & McKenzie has advised Bermuda company Pangea on the construction and related financing of a $436 million fibre optic network which will connect the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Estonia.
  • Portugal’s status as a small economy on the EU’s outer rim has often left the Portuguese feeling removed from the Union. The real opportunities may be elsewhere. Ben Maiden reports
  • By resisting the advances of the international legal networks Spanish firms hope to forge a global role of their own. Ben Maiden reports