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  • Japan gives green light to employee share options
    A major reform of Japanese regulations, allowing companies to award share options to directors, moves regulation closer into line with the US and Europe. By Junko Mori of Asahi Law Offices, Tokyo
    August 31, 1997
  • Mergers and acquisitions: How to structure an M&A deal
    McCarthy Tétrault, Toronto and London
    August 31, 1997
  • New German firm opens
    A team of lawyers has left German firm Hölters & Elsing, Dusseldorf, to set up their own firm. Corporate partner Rainer Velten and Christian Franz, Bernd Mayer and Markus Jakoby have formed Velten Franz Mayer & Jakoby, with offices in Dusseldorf and Berlin. The firm will specialize in corporate and real estate transactions, and plans to open an office in Frankfurt shortly.
    August 31, 1997
  • Asian litigation
    The Privy Council restored Rogers J's decision in Canon Kabushiki Kaisha v Green Cartridge Co (HK) which the Court of Appeal overturned, as reported in this column in May 1995 and September 1996.
    August 31, 1997
  • Clifford Chance opens Dusseldorf branch
    Clifford Chance has opened a second office in Germany. The Dusseldorf office is intended to capitalize on the heavy industries present in the Rhine-Ruhr area. Jan ter Haar, managing partner of Clifford Chance's Frankfurt office, explains: "We will be doing mainly corporate and M&A work, but we expect to pick up on the presence of IT and media sectors and bolster those practices too."
    August 31, 1997
  • Credit Suisse in merger with Winterthur
    Credit Suisse Group, one of Switzerland's biggest banks, has merged with Winterthur, Switzerland's third biggest insurer. The SFr14.3 billion (US$9.3 billion) merger will make the new group Europe's fifth largest financial services group.
    August 31, 1997
  • Heard at the bar
    • Nancy Wodka, a project finance specialist, has moved from the Washington office of New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to the Washington office of Houston-based Bracewell & Patterson LLP. She will head the firm's team on international infrastructure projects .
    August 31, 1997
  • United States
    A major federal appeal court in the US has ruled that Hong Kong is not a foreign state for the purposes of deciding whether a Hong Kong company is entitled to sue an American firm in US courts. Because Hong Kong is not considered a state, a company organized under Hong Kong law lacks the ability to sue in US courts on the basis of diversity or 'alienage' jurisdiction.
    August 31, 1997
  • Hong Kong SFC lays down specific compliance procedures
    New guidelines for market participants on management and internal control have been welcomed but the Securities and Futures Commission has also published suggested control techniques which have been less well received. By James Walker and Kenneth Leung of Clifford Chance, Hong Kong
    August 31, 1997
  • Financing the Argentine provinces
    Economic reform is beginning to reach into the Argentine provincial governments. Esteban A Mancuso of White & Case, New York, discusses ways the provinces could solve their financing difficulties
    August 31, 1997
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