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  • Financial supervisor accepts internet as sole place for subscription
  • The closure of internet companies like boo.com are creating new hunting grounds for companies seeking strategic acquisitions in the US. Richard Mason, Mitchell Presser and David Silk of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York examine issues they must face
  • Mid-July saw the largest Turkish initial public offering (IPO) to date with Turkcell's floatation on the New York and Istanbul exchanges. The 11% stake in the company released in the IPO raised a total of $1.7 billion, valuing the company at approximately $16 billion.
  • They say you can have too much of a good thing, but you won't find the law firms that have become part of Deutsche Telekom's gang of advisers complaining. With three multi-billion dollar flotations behind them and a world-beating bond issue just completed, you can bet they are very happy indeed. And there is more to come.
  • In early July Clifford Chance advised on the first initial public offering (IPO) to take place simultaneously on three European exchanges. The flotation of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS) company, which took place on the Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid exchanges, raised approximately euro 3 billion ($2.8 billion). The IPO values EADS at euro 15.4 billion.
  • Robert McDowell and Robert Elliott of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, Toronto, explain the highlights of Canada's new financial legislation. Part one of a two part series looks at the new rules for ownership of banks and insurance companies
  • US firms Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae have hired partners to expand their public finance and banking practices respectively.
  • US lawyers have voted overwhelmingly against plans to allow lawyers to join forces with other professionals, striking a blow against the ambitions of accountancy firms as they try to build global legal networks
  • Simmons & Simmons has been advising US online retailer priceline.com in its strategic alliance with Hutchison Whampoa.
  • So far no top firm has followed Clifford Chance’s January 1 lead and completed a transatlantic merger. But as non-US firms in New York rapidly seek to build their US practices, behind the scenes negotiations are taking place at a frenzied pace. Tom Nicholson reports