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  • Making the case for legal compliance audits
    Costly asset management failures are dramatic evidence of the need for third party audits of advisers’ practices, says Marcia MacHarg of Debevoise & Plimpton, New York
    March 31, 1997
  • US firms embrace English law capability
    The last 18 months have seen an explosion in the number and size of US firms with English law capability in their London offices. Other firms are steadfastly following their own strategy. Paul Lee reports
    March 31, 1997
  • Mexico
    The new Law of the Mexican Institute of Social Security is set to enter into force on July 1 1997, from which date employees will be entitled to have their pension funds managed by 'retirement fund administrators' (administradores de fondos para el retiro or 'afores'), which can be private bodies. Funds are at present managed by the Social Security Institute.
    March 31, 1997
  • Brazil introduces depositary receipts regime
    A three-tier mechanism now permits foreign issuers better access to the Brazilian markets. By Sergio Spinelli Silva Jr of Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr, Moherdaui e Quiroga, São Paulo
    March 31, 1997
  • Heard at the bar
    • UK firm Simmons & Simmons has appointed partner Huen Wong to the new role of China managing partner. This involves heading the Hong Kong and Shanghai offices and integrating them in preparation for the handover of Hong Kong to China at the end of June.
    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
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