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  • France introduces law to implement ISD
    The EU Investment Services Directive (ISD) is finally to be enacted into French law. Jean-Guillaume d'Hérouville and Pierre Gissinger of Gide Loyrette Nouel, Paris, discuss the changes to the regulatory regime
    June 30, 1996
  • Twelve new partners at Wilde Sapte
    UK firm Wilde Sapte has appointed 12 partners, 10 in the London office, one in Tokyo and one in New York.
    June 30, 1996
  • EU threatens anonymous banking in Austria
    The EU Commission is pressing Austria to abolish anonymous banking. With the Austrian government stalling, the matter is likely to go to the European Court. By Friedrich Schwank of Law Offices Dr F Schwank, Vienna
    June 30, 1996
  • How to pick the right standard master agreement
    Concluding his consideration of repos, Claude Brown of Linklaters & Paines, London, discusses the various master agreements for repos, buy/sell backs and stock loans
    June 30, 1996
  • Largest ever Canadian takeover
    Inco, the North American nickel company, has acquired Diamond Field Resources, the Canadian metals company, in a US$4.3 billion agreed takeover, the largest in Canadian history.
    June 30, 1996
  • Heard at the bar
    • US firm Winston & Strawn has rehired former partner Robert Bostrom. Bostrom will leave his post as legal and regulatory general counsel at NatWest Bancorp to head the financial institutions practice in the New York office of the law firm.
    June 30, 1996
  • Brazil
    On May 21 1996, 54.6% of the voting shares of electricity distributor Light were sold to a consortium lead by Electricité de France for US$2.2 billion. This was the largest privatization to date and the second to involve a significant foreign participation. Light has 80% of the distribution market in the state of Rio de Janeiro and has now been granted a new concession for 30 years.
    June 30, 1996
  • General Motors spins off EDS
    General Motors, the US car company, has spun off its subsidiary Electronic Data Systems (EDS), the US software and consulting company, in a US$500 million transaction. EDS now has a listing on the New York and London stock exchanges.
    June 30, 1996
  • Hong Kong overhauls securities and futures rules
    The package of regulatory reforms set to come before the Legislative Council this autumn will innovate as well consolidate. John Holmes and James Walker of Clifford Chance, Hong Kong, look at its new provisions
    June 30, 1996
  • Berlin office for Deringer Tessin Herrmann & Sedemund
    German law firm Deringer Tessin Herrmann & Sedemund has officially opened its office in Berlin. The firm had been working out of the city since February having absorbed local practice Pfeiffer Brandes Neumann.
    June 30, 1996
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