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  • Cayman Islands introduces special purpose trusts
    The new Star trusts offer useful new opportunities for structuring financial transactions through the Cayman Islands. They will be particularly useful in complex loans or securitization deals. By Chris Narborough of Truman Bodden & Co, Cayman Islands
    March 01, 1998
  • LucasVarity sells Varity Perkins to Caterpillar
    US/UK automotive parts supplier LucasVarity is selling its VarityPerkins Engines business to US rival Caterpillar for US$1.3 billion. While the deal surprised some analysts, who viewed Perkins as an essential part of LucasVarity, the acquisition is seen as a good strategic fit for Caterpillar.
    February 01, 1998
  • Montreal firms merge to bolster position
    Montreal firms McMaster Meighen and Mackenzie Gervais are to merge in March 1998. The merged firm will be called McMaster Gervais and will be one of Montreal's biggest, with about 100 lawyers.
    February 01, 1998
  • Haarmann and Allen & Overy join rush to Italy
    UK firm Allen & Overy announced that it is to merge with 65-lawyer Italian firm Brosio, Casati e Associati. Meanwhile, Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner has become the second German firm to open an office in Italy. In the last year the following foreign firms have all opened in Italy or added to an existing presence: Clifford Chance, Freshfields, Simmons & Simmons and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
    February 01, 1998
  • Tough loan rules control China`s foreign debt exposure
    China's new foreign loans regime bars non-profitable companies from seeking international finance, and also limits the profitable ones. Worries about the Asian crisis have ensured caution. By Guanxi Zheng of Stikeman, Elliott, Hong Kong
    February 01, 1998
  • Czech lawyers survive in tough market
    In a very hard year for the Czech economy, the former overly-optimistic comments about the economy have been replaced by more realism and pessimism. But many of the remaining law firms continue to prosper. Paul Lee reports
    February 01, 1998
  • Malaysian project finance survives market turbulence
    Despite turbulence on the markets, Malaysia's investment-led infrastructure development programme looks quite promising. By Winston Bernard Silva, advocate and solicitor, Singapore
    February 01, 1998
  • 1997 international bond survey: a year of new challenges
    Linklaters & Paines and Sullivan & Cromwell have again risen to the top in a hectic year. Cravath Swaine & Moore and Davis Polk & Wardwell share the Yankee title. Nick Ferguson and Barbara Galli report
    February 01, 1998
  • Quebec relaxes foreign issuer rules
    Quebec has moved to drop the requirement that prospectuses must be published in French, as well as other discouragements to foreign issuers. By Andrew Fleming of Ogilvy Renault, London
    February 01, 1998
  • Finland
    In December 1997, the Ministry of Finance released its draft for a government bill on flagging rules. The draft proposal included, among other things, amendments to the thresholds triggering the flagging obligation.
    February 01, 1998
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