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  • Telewest Communications and Flextech have announced that they intend to merge. The two companies have approximate market capitalizations of £10.1 billion ($16 billion) and £2.5 billion respectively.
  • The Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced last month that it intends to buy Colonial Limited for $5.7 billion. The combined group will be among Australia's market leaders for lending deposits and asset management. It will also become the country's third largest issuer of new life insurance premiums.
  • Downstream mergers and financial assistance
  • MGM Grand is to buy Mirage Resorts for $4.4 billion in a deal announced on March 7 2000. It will create the second-largest betting company in Las Vegas, behind Park Place Entertainment, which was formed at the end of 1998 by the Hilton Hotels Corporation.
  • Garrigues & Andersen, has appointed Jose Maria Alonzo and Miguel Gordillo as joint managing partners. The directors of Garrigues voted unanimously to maintain the joint-management system that was introduced three years ago when the Spanish firm merged with the big five's Arthur Andersen. They replace Daniel Garcia-Pita and Alberto Terol. Antonio Garrigues will remain as president.
  • Five Canadian law firms have merged to create the country's second largest firm, Borden Ladner Gervais, with nearly 600 lawyers. The new entity brings together members from each of Canada's important financial centres. Borden & Elliot, the largest, is based in Toronto, McMaster Gervais in Montreal, Scott & Aylen in Ottowa, Ladner Downs in Vancouver and Howard, Mackie in Calgary. The new firm came into existence on March 1.
  • New pledge system
  • The SEC’s new tender offer and M&A rules went into effect on January 24 and are already proving to be very different from the old rules. Meredith M Brown, Alan H Paley and William D Regner, of Debevoise & Plimpton, examine how the new rules are working in practice
  • As the argument for embracing a loose alliance of pan-European law firms subsides, Austrian firms seek to strengthen their international ties with a view to a possible merger. Stephen Mulrenan reports
  • Securitization techniques are being adopted in increasingly unusual ways. Richard Henderson of Watson, Farley & Williams, London, summarizes the available structures for ensuring off balance sheet financing for shipbuilders