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    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
  • Rocky road to a liberalized Japanese legal market
    The short-term prospects for foreign lawyers in the Japanese legal market are addressed in an official report due out this year. Rob Dwyer listens to both sides of an increasingly acrimonious debate about the place of international firms in a Japan undergoing its financial ‘big bang’
    August 31, 1997
  • Energy: Oil and gas exploration in Asia-Pacific
    Bennett Jones Verchere, Calgary
    August 31, 1997
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency: None too big to fall
    Meighen Demers, Toronto
    August 31, 1997
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    Bates Report plans to revive PFI
    In line with the recently published recommendations on the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), the UK government is to set up a Treasury Taskforce to help get projects off the ground. By Nicholas Bliss of Freshfields, London
    August 31, 1997
  • Burlington Resources and Louisiana Land combine
    Burlington Resources and Louisiana Land and Exploration have combined. The deal is valued at US$3 billion. The combined company will be one of the leading independent energy exploration and production companies worldwide.
    August 31, 1997
  • Tax: Canadian commodity tax
    Millar Wyslobicky Kreklewetz, Toronto
    August 31, 1997
  • Construction law: Breach of trust in the construction industry
    Cassels Brock & Blackwell, Toronto
    August 31, 1997
  • Kaye Scholer hit by double blow
    US firm Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler has lost corporate partners in New York and Los Angeles including vice-chair of the firm Robert Finley. Finley, who was co-head of the corporate and finance practice, has joined the New York office of Clifford Chance. The English firm is seeking to develop a New York banking practice having built a team of 40 US securities lawyers in New York, London and Hong Kong.
    July 31, 1997
  • Japan issues blueprint for widespread reform
    By the end of fiscal 2000, a momentous series of reforms should have opened the Japanese financial markets. The government’s programme is reviewed by Naoaki Eguchi, Yasushi Murofushi and Jeremy Pitts of Tokyo Aoyama Law Office-Baker & McKenzie, Tokyo
    July 31, 1997
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