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Partnership Property Management, a consortium led by Goldman Sachs, was chosen to take over the UK Department of Social Security's 700 properties. This deal, known as Project Prime, is the largest Private Finance Initiative transaction to date with a total value of £4 billion (US$6 billion)

International Bar Association

In July, New York's Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and Simmons & Simmons of the UK created an International Securities Unit to handle both the English law and New York law aspects of securities issues. The unit, to be based in London, will be staffed by partners and other lawyers from both firms. It will handle the full range of both equity and bond issues in the US, UK and worldwide.

McDonald & Hayden, Toronto

New tax incentives in the 1997 Budget approved by Parliament in July focused mainly on the financial sector. Effective for five years from assessment year 1998, they will be:

Audit reports are a common source of information for investors. Many rely on the balance sheet and the audit report to assess a corporation's worth. Some investors go as far as considering an audit a reliable guide to a corporation's financial health. With this kind of expectation, litigation against auditors after an unsuccessful investment is not uncommon.

Cyprus has attracted offshore enterprises from almost 100 countries, and in the past few years Europe has been the main source of new company registrations. In the first half of 1997, 79.2% of the registrations originated from Europe, 12.9% from America, 5.5% from Asia, 1.7% from Africa and 0.7% from Australia.

To carry out proper due diligence as required by Colombian law, the following general guidelines on corporate duties, government permits, labour matters and taxation should be followed.

Until now, investments made by Spanish Collective Investment Institutions (IICs) in derivatives were regulated by the provisions of the Order of July 6 1992. This rule allowed such institutions to invest in derivatives traded on organized secondary markets both in Spain and in other countries.

The Hungarian Ministry of Justice has introduced a bill for a new Law on Economic Associations (Companies Act). The planned law would serve the purpose of further harmonizing Hungarian company law with EU rules by establishing western standards. Furthermore, the experience of the past few years has confirmed the need for a new law. Since the Companies Act came into force on January 1 1989, the law has been shown to have numerous loopholes and to be wide open to abuse. The bill attempts to address these faults.