C ontents
FOCUS EUROPE • SUMMER 2010
Clifford Chance’s Anthony Giustini works on Africa deals from his Paris base.
DEPARTMENTS
6 Editor’s Note
OPENING STATEMENTS
7 United Kingdom
Britain’s Tough New
Antibribery Law
8 Spain
Unscrewing the Voting
Rights Cap
8 Italy
Don’t Google Me
9 Central and Eastern
Europe
Ringing Up Private
Equity Sales
10 Brussels
A New Antitrust Crusader—
or Not
11 Book of Business
12 BIG DEALS
58 Bully Pulpit
How the poster boy of the antiextradition movement just got
sucked across the Atlantic.
By Michael D. Goldhaber
24
FEATURES
16 A Lifetime of Litigation
Can a dead oil company still hit
a gusher? A look at Yukos’s contentious afterlife.
By Michael D. Goldhaber
24 From Paris to Africa
Want to do a deal in Africa?
First stop, the French capital.
By Claire Zillman
COVER: STEPHANE REMAEL