Country Focus Archive

Canada Focus
It is with great pleasure that I am able to introduce to you a new feature of Managing Partner magazine: our international-focus country reports. We would also like to welcome Anna Head, who joins the Managing Partner team from In Brief, and will head up the country reports into 2006.

Contents:

Competition and change: The Canadian legal landscape
Bennett Jones LLP - Fighting fraud across borders
Bennett Jones LLP - Putting partnerships first
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP - Bank mergers
Deeth Williams Wall - Intellectual property laws
Deeth Williams Wall - Taming the internet
Gowlings - Lighting the way?
Ogilvy Renault - Cross-border spin-offs (Canadian tax implications)

South Africa Focus
South Africa is on the move. As the largest economy in Africa and with forecast GDP growth of nine per cent, it is the gateway to the continent. Its unique and strategic position has, of course, been boosted by winning the bid to host the World Cup in 2010. The end result is that confidence is growing both inside the country and among foreign investors.

Contents:

Transformation and growth: The South African legal landscape
Overview: The road ahead
Overview: Gateway to Africa
Africa's platform for growth
An economic powerhouse
Bowman Gilfillan Attorneys - Foreign-owned companies and BEE
Brink Cohen le Roux Inc - Corporate law reform: A delicate balance
Deneys Reitz - Taming thin capitalisation
Edward Nathan - Alternative energy sources
Edward Nathan - Beware, your restraint of trade clause may be anti-competitive
Routledge Modise Moss Morris - The changing face of dispute resolution
Sonnenberg Hoffmann Galombik - Harmonisation of company law
Webber Wentzel Bowens - Oil and gas exploration
Webber Wentzel Bowens - South Africa attracts foreign direct investment
Webber Wentzel Bowens - South Africa's tonnage tax gains momentum
Werksmans Inc - Licensing and regulation in the communications sector