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  • Williams seeks Chubb Security
    UK security, fire protection and home improvement group Williams Holdings is making a US$1.3 billion bid for rival Chubb Security.
    March 31, 1997
  • Del Monte bid
    Texas buy-out company Texas Pacific Group is offering an undisclosed amount, believed to be at least US$800 million, for Del Monte Foods, the US's largest branded producer and distributor of tinned fruit and vegetables.
    March 31, 1997
  • Philips divests cable company
    Dutch company Philips Media is selling its 50% stake in United and Philips Communications, the largest privately-owned cable system in Europe, to its joint venture partner, American concern United International Holdings. The deal is worth US$425 million.
    March 31, 1997
  • Book review
    The Life and Death of an Infrastructure Project, 2nd ed.
    March 31, 1997
  • Latin America litigation
    A decision of the Colombian Constitutional Court, issued in August 1996, has blocked the ratification of a bilateral investment treaty entered into by Colombia and the UK in 1994 and approved by the Colombian Congress in late 1995. With the failure of a recent government initiative to overturn the constitutional basis for the court's decision, it now appears that the treaty has been shelved indefinitely.
    March 31, 1997
  • Brazil
    Privatization of mining group
    March 31, 1997
  • Switzerland
    In its February session, the Swiss Federal Banking Commission gave the green light for the first two foreign funds with special risks to be sold and marketed in Switzerland.
    March 31, 1997
  • Sweden
    In the January 1997 briefing we noted that a parliamentary committee was expected to propose amendments to the Companies Act of1975, one of which would permit Swedish companies to repurchase their own shares. This proposal has now been published (SOU 1997: 22).
    March 31, 1997
  • Italy
    Treasury Ministry Decree No. 703 of November 21 1996 setting out the criteria to be followed by the management of pension funds with regard to investments and the limits on investments and derivatives transactions has been published in the Official Gazette and is now in force.
    March 31, 1997
  • Finland
    The amendments to the Finnish Companies Act (see International Financial Law Review, August 1996, page 56) and certain related legislation were ratified in February 1997 and due to come into effect on September 1 1997.
    March 31, 1997
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