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  • Latham & Watkins, the global law firm, has appointed three new members to its New York office in a bid to enhance its reputation as a top leveraged finance firm. Marc Hanrahan, Ronan Wicks and Marcus Dougherty will focus their practice on representing banks and other financial institutions in senior lending transactions.
  • Listed Japanese companies are set to report record pre-tax profits this year with companies across all sectors seeing an aggregate 21% gain in the current fiscal year ending March 31 2004.
  • The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board will consider a final vote on changing the registration deadline for non-U.S. accounting firms at the open meeting scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 9. At the same meeting, the Board will vote on an auditing standard for audits of internal control over financial reporting, as well as two other matters. The proposed agenda for the meeting is as follows:
  • A poll of senior executives finds that 45% expect to pursue career opportunities in a new industry.
  • LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the luxury products group, has achieved a 9% increase in operating income for 2003, taking the amount to ?2,18 billion on sales of ?12 billion. LVMH enjoyed double-digit growth in sales and operating income for the second half of 2003 ? thereby repeating the feat from 2002 ? and has reported strong growth for the first two months of 2004.
  • The relationship between management and boards of directors at U.S. multinational companies has been changed dramatically through an array of corporate governance initiatives begun in response to corporate scandals, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and other requirements. According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Barometer:
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  • Corporates ought to seriously consider the impact of the EU Prospectus Directive before embarking on a public offering in any of the EU states, warns Mercer Human Resource Consulting. The directive, published at the end of 2003, stipulates that corporates registered outside the EU must comply with the financial regulations of the first EU state into which they make a public share offering.
  • The sharp increase in the number of hostile bids in 2003 adn 2004 - including high profile bids such as Comcast's offer for Disney - has led to more coporates seeking insurance against the cost of fending off the bids. Last year there were 16 hostile bids in the UK, compared to just eight in 2002. In Europe last year, hostile offers totaled $56 billion, the highest since 1999.
  • Baudoin Prot, the CEO of BNP Paribas, used a results announcement last month to deny some of the merger rumours involving his firm and to sketch out plans for using the bank's excess capital. As he outlined the bank's 2003 results, which included an impressive 13.1% increase in net income from the corporate and investment banking division, he declined to reveal what BNP Paribas would do if a large US firm bought one of its European rivals. He described such hypothetical strategic plans as "science fiction".
  • Iran's State Tax Organization (STO) last month made its ambitions clear: in 2004/05 it is aiming to gather enough tax revenue to cover almost half of government expenditure. To achieve this it needs to record a 38% year-on-year increase in tax collection, or total revenues of almost $11 billion.