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  • New Zealand’s Kensington Swan is set to join KPMG Legal. KPMG hopes its present New Zealand legal staff will eventually be able to integrate with the 43-partner Kensington Swan, but at the moment New Zealand does not allow multidisciplinary partnerships and so the two groups of lawyers will work separately.
  • Australian firms benefited in 1999 from record levels of mergers and acquisitions, and none gained more than Freehill Hollingdale & Page. Figures compiled by Thomson Financial Securities Data show Freehills once again topped the tables, advising on 129 transactions worth more than A$23.7 billion. That represents 42% of the total market.
  • Lawyers in Hong Kong and Singapore are relishing renewed investor confidence in Indonesia. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Norton Rose and Herbert Smith are among the first to advise on foreign investments into Indonesia since the downturn.
  • Limitations on the authority of the competition commission
  • Baker & McKenzie is acting for a Polish leasing company on its dual equity listing. Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy (EFL) has launched an international and domestic offering of shares and global depositary receipts (GDRs) on the London and Warsaw stock exchanges. Bakers’ role is international transaction and company counsel. The value of the offering, consisting of new issue shares, was $82 million.
  • Allen & Overy has completed its second recent property securitization by advising Northern Rock on its £750 million ($1.2 billion) financing.
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  • It had become an article of faith that the US Securities and Exchange Commission would never accept non-US financial statements unless reconciled to US standards. Sara Hanks of Clifford Chance Rodgers & Wells discusses the SEC's latest release on accounting disclosure which could lead to a flood of new issuers entering the US markets.
  • In the first acquisition of a Paris-listed bank by a foreign institution, HSBC Holdings is buying Crédit Commercial de France in a deal worth $10.6 billion. Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton is acting as legal adviser to HSBC and local firm Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier for Crédit Commercial.
  • Merrill Lynch and HSBC have announced that they are forming a joint venture to provide what they call “the first global online banking and investment services company”. The new company will be co-branded ‘Merrill Lynch HSBC’ and its formal name will be announced shortly.