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  • The British government and London & Continental Railways (LCR) have announced the advisers for the planned financing of the first stage of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (IFLR December 1998). HSBC and Warburg Dillon Read have been appointed as joint lead managers and arrangers on next year’s Eurobond offering, which is expected to raise £2.65 billion ($4.45 billion). Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott says: “These appointments are a significant milestone in the financing of this exciting project.”
  • The industrial conglomerate Tyco has announced that it is to acquire AMP in an all-stock deal. The offer has rescued the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based electrical equipment manufacturer from the hostile takeover attempt by AlliedSignal announced in the summer. Tyco’s offer tops AlliedSignal’s cash bid by $1.6 billion.
  • Dutch communications utility KPN, and US communications carrier Qwest are joining forces to put $700 million-worth of fibreoptic links into a network that will provide internet links across Europe. The venture, named KPN Qwest, will start in January. The companies plan to spend $500m more on the project in the next two years.
  • Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, has appointed a new chairman for the UK Law Commission, the body responsible for examining possible reforms to legislation. Justice Robert Carnwath will take up his position in February.
  • UK firm Freshfields has appointed US arbitration lawyer Eric Schwartz, a former partner in the Paris office of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, as partner in its arbitration practice. Resident in the Paris office of Freshfields, Schwartz expects to take advantage of a greater depth of resources than he found at his old firm.
  • Brenda Horrigan and Theodore Matheny of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn examine the background to the crisis and suggest solutions to regenerate the securities market and banking sector
  • News on turnover taxation
  • Transparency requirements
  • Netting laws to be extended to payment systems
  • Asia PacificCompanies Act amended