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The dust has barely settled on the 1998 UK Competition Act and the government has already introduced plans for new legislation. Will this give the UK a “world class competition regime” or, ask Simon Polito and Ruth Kelly of Lovells, is it too much, too soon?

Over the summer, the Czech and Slovak republics both passed new laws on competition. As they and other countries line up for prospective EU membership, Michal Dlouhy and Martin Podolan of White & Case, Feddersen, Prague, assess the legislation

Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) has appointed Gary Lynch, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell and former head of the SEC's enforcement division, as its new global general counsel.

Baker Botts has advised Dominion on the $2.3 billion cash, stock and assumed debt acquisition of Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas.

Norton Rose has won the mandate to advise the government of Cyprus on changes to the country's electricity legislation in line with EU Directives.

Linklaters advised Guoco Group on a general offer to repurchase 10% to 25% of its share capital by way of a modified Dutch auction. The deal was announced on September 10 and is scheduled for completion by the end of November. The value could be as much as HK$5.46 billion ($700 million). The deal is the largest general offer to repurchase shares (in terms of value) ever announced in Hong Kong. It followed the structure that Linklaters had earlier established for the HK$4.12 billion share repurchase by The Hong Kong and China Gas Company in June 2001.

Davis Polk & Wardwell has advised Deutsche Telekom on US aspects of the company's sale of six regional cable television companies in Germany to Liberty Media Corporation. The transaction is valued at approximately euro 5.5 billion ($4.9 billion).

Shearman & Sterling has finalized the $440 million financing of a third international passenger terminal at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

Franco Vigliano

"The terrorists went after Wall Street, so why not use Wall Street to go after them?"