News


18th November 2008

 

Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) joins RWG

 

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28th October 2008

Luxembourg Rail Protocol in Vietnam

 

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24th September 2008

Fromer, Schultheiss & Staehelin joins the RWG

 

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9th September 2008

RWG's new structure

 

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1st September 2008

UNIFE study expects continued strong growth in the rail sector to 2016

 

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29th August 2008

Official commentary on the Cape Town Convention and the Luxembourg Rail Protocol published

 

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30th July 2008

Bowman Gilfillan joins the RWG

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28th July 2008

Appointment of Chairman of the Emerging Markets Task Force

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28th May 2008

The RWG sets up Emerging Markets Task Force

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16th May 2008

Simmons & Simmons joins the RWG

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2nd May 2008

EU issues new guidelines on state aid for railway undertakings

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25th April 2008

A new member in Denmark

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26th March 2008

Luxembourg Rail Protocol presented at CER Conference in Warsaw

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19th February 2008

UIC legal workshop discusses the Luxembourg Protocol

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11th January 2008

The Rail Working Group is proud to announce that law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP has joined the Group.

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About us spacer icon Chairman


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Photo of Howard Rosen
Chairman

Howard Rosen is an English lawyer and principal of Howard Rosen Solicitors, a boutique law firm based in Switzerland which specialises in advising on international asset finance transactions. He is a Correspondent of UNIDROIT and set up the Rail Working Group in 1996.

He led the RWG’s involvement in the Government Experts’ meetings considering the draft Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, as well as the Group’s delegation to the Diplomatic Conference in Cape Town in 2001.

Howard Rosen contributed to the drafting of the Convention and the Aviation Protocol thereto, and has been one of the principal drafters of the draft Rail Protocol.

He has also written various articles, and lectures on the Cape Town Convention and the proposed Rail Protocol.