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• New York's Chadbourne & Parke LLP has made seven lawyers partners. They are: in Singapore, Bruce Rader (corporate and project finance); in Moscow, Mikhail Rozenberg (Russian practice); in Washington DC, Thomas Hechl (Russian practice and project finance); and in New York, Douglas Fried (project finance), Claude Serfilippi (corporate finance), Drew Wintringham (intellectual property) and Nancy Zajac (leasing).

McDonald & Hayden, Toronto

Fasken Martineau, London and Toronto

Legislative Decree No. 124 of April 21 1993 introduced the concept of pension funds which could be established in addition to the national compulsory pension system.

Partnership Property Management, a consortium led by Goldman Sachs, was chosen to take over the UK Department of Social Security's 700 properties. This deal, known as Project Prime, is the largest Private Finance Initiative transaction to date with a total value of £4 billion (US$6 billion)

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

On July 19 1997 the Commission published a Communication on certain legal aspects concerning intra-EU investment. The Commission examined the compatibility of national measures which restrict cross-border investment with Article 73b (capital movements) and Article 52 (right of establishment), to conclude that:

The Revised Securities Act (RSA) Full Disclosure Rules (the Rules) became effective on October 7 1996. The Rules establish an integrated disclosure system for registration statements (RS) and other reports which must be filed with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and distributed to the investing public.

The Hungarian Ministry of Justice has introduced a bill for a new Law on Economic Associations (Companies Act). The planned law would serve the purpose of further harmonizing Hungarian company law with EU rules by establishing western standards. Furthermore, the experience of the past few years has confirmed the need for a new law. Since the Companies Act came into force on January 1 1989, the law has been shown to have numerous loopholes and to be wide open to abuse. The bill attempts to address these faults.

In 1994, the Danish Consumer Ombudsman, after consultations with the Bankers' Association, issued ethical guidelines for financial institutions' advice to individual customers.