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Japan loans $100 billion to the IMF to help bolster its lendable resources

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • Global, Japan
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  • February 19 2009

Last Friday the IMF announced that it had entered into a $100 billion borrowing agreement with Japan "to bolster the Fund’s lendable resources during the current global economic and financial crisis."

Bank of Japan Governor Shirakawa expresses concerns about excessive regulations

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • Global, Japan
  • -
  • June 30 2009

Last Friday, Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, during a speech at the annual meeting of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland expressed uncertainty as to whether ongoing efforts to reform the financial and regulatory system would create a framework to prevent a future crisis from taking place

Open source software: the implications for M&A transactions

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Global, Japan
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  • December 20 2010

Incorporation of open source software in software development has become the rule rather than the exception

ISDA launches Japan Corporate Calculation Agent City Protocol

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • Global, Japan
  • -
  • January 19 2010

On January 12th, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association announced the launch of the 2010 Japan Corporate Calculation Agent City Protocol

NTT strikes $3.2 billion deal for dimension data

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • Global, Japan
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  • July 23 2010

Dominant Japanese fixed line carrier NTT took an important step beyond its national borders with an agreement to purchase Dimension Dataa key provider of computer and information technology services in Africa, South America, and the Middle Eastfor 2.1 billion (US$3.2 billion) in cash

Insurance linked securities update 2011: Japan earthquake tests market

  • Jorden Burt LLP
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  • Global, Japan
  • -
  • April 18 2011

We previously reported on the history and recent trends of insurance-linked securities (sometimes referred to as "event-linked securities" or "ILS"

The safety of nuclear power

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • European Union, Global, Japan, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 3 2011

As at the date of writing this article, workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan are working to contain the nuclear contamination risks from the incident in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami

International regulatory update 18-29 April 2011

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • Global, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • May 3 2011

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a progress report on the implementation of OTC derivatives market reforms

Japan to meet UNFCCC pledge

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global, Japan
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  • May 8 2011

Japan’s new ambassador to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kenji Hiramatsu, said last week that the country will honor its pledge of $15 billion to help Africa and other developing areas fight global warming

International agreements and investments

  • Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
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  • Global, India, Japan
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  • October 5 2010

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry proposed to remove an old rule that requires foreign investors with tie-ups with Indian companies to get government permission before making new investments in the same field to expand outside the original joint venture (27 ITR 1445; 9232010

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