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  • Cross-border insolvencies in search of a global remedy
    The lack of an international insolvency regime is a glaring anachronism in the era of global markets. While regulators are getting their act together, private initiatives offer the best alternative. By Daniel Cunningham and Thomas Werlen of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York
    December 01, 1996
  • US$255 million Shanghai gas turbine project
    A joint venture, Shanghai Zhadian Gas Turbine Power Generation, formed between Shanghai Municipal Electric Power and GE Capital, is the project company in a US$255 million 4x100Mw gas turbine power plant. It is said to be the first truly limited recourse project financing in the Chinese power sector.
    December 01, 1996
  • Baker & McKenzie opens Japanese joint venture
    International firm Baker & McKenzie opened an office in Japan on November 1. The firm previously operated in Tokyo through an association with Tokyo Aoyama Law Office, but the two have now formed a qualified joint venture.
    December 01, 1996
  • British Telecom and Cegetel in £1 billion alliance
    British Telecom has acquired a 25% stake in French telecommunications company Cegetel for £1.1 billion (US$1.7 billion). Cegetel, which is 50% owned by French utility Compagnie Générale des Eaux, will compete directly with France Télécom for mobile and fixed service licences in advance of the date set for liberalization of the European market, January 1 1998.
    November 01, 1996
  • Bankers' acceptances smooth Canadian-US cross-border credit
    Despite their frequent use in Canada, US lawyers are often puzzled by bankers' acceptances. Lisa Boulton of Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington, Toronto, explains why they are so popular in Canada's money markets
    November 01, 1996
  • Gillette buys Duracell for US$7 billion
    US consumer products company Gillette is set to acquire Duracell International, the US battery manufacturer, in a US$7.3 billion share exchange. As a result, US buy-out firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which has a 34% shareholding in the target company, will become Gillette's second largest shareholder.
    November 01, 1996
  • Benelux lawyers join forces to compete
    With small home markets, Benelux lawyers have been among the first in Europe to consider cross-border mergers and alliances. Their successes will be a model for others to follow. Paul Lee reports
    November 01, 1996
  • Italy
    A draft Legislative Decree implementing EU Directive 19/94 was submitted in September to Parliament by the Council of Ministers.
    November 01, 1996
  • Garrett & Co expands
    Garrett & Co, the UK firm in the legal network associated with Arthur Andersen, has made a series of senior lateral hires from City firms and is seeking to set up a Hong Kong office in the next two months.
    November 01, 1996
  • Emerging market cash flow securitizations take off
    Douglas A Doetsch of Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, looks in detail at one of the most vigorous and innovative sectors of the capital markets and its particular usefulness in Latin America and other emerging jurisdictions
    November 01, 1996
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