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  • Linklaters & Alliance is to gain three new offices in central and eastern Europe. The offices, in Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, add to the Alliance's network in the region, which already includes Warsaw and Prague. The offices in Bratislava, Budapest and Bucharest will open on January 4 and will be incorporated into the Alliance under the co-ordination of Nick Eastwell, capital markets partner responsible for emerging markets
  • German firm Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber is to open a new office in Munich on January 1 2000
  • China's agreement with the US has paved the way to WTO entry
  • The UK Parliament is expected to pass the Financial Services and Markets Bill by spring 2000
  • The SEC has lifted its $5 million fixed limit on stock incentive plans for foreign companies with US operations.
  • The SEC’s new rules on cross-border M&A offers and rights offerings become effective in the New Year.
  • Three UK law firms have completed the rehabilitation of a bank in eastern Europe. Simmons & Simmons, Clifford Chance and Freshfields have all worked on the successful rehabilitation of Latvian bank Rigas Komercbanka, which went into administration in February of this year. The bank reopened for business on October 26 and is now known as First Commercial Bank of Latvia.
  • The EU’s Finality Directive is designed to provide greater legal certainty following the introduction of the euro. Richard Potok of Potok & Co, London, looks at the progress of the implementation of Article 9(2) of the Directive throughout the Union.
  • Securitization, as a sophisticated form of discounting or factoring receivables, gained official recognition in 1991 when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Philippines issued the Rules on Registration and Sale of Asset-Backed Securities. By Rafael A Morales of SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan, Manila
  • The explosion of the high-technology economy and the realization that future business will be conducted online is affecting the strategy of US firms. Rob Mannix reports