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  • 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.
  • Brown & Wood corporate and securities partner Michael Schiavone has joined the New York office of Shearman & Sterling. He specializes in new product development, financial institutions and telecommunications companies.
  • 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.
  • Weil Gotshal to open Frankfurt office
  • 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.
  • After the passing of secondary legislation, the Japanese government is ready to launch its private finance initiative. Mitsuhiro Kamiya of Freshfields, Tokyo looks at the rules and prospects for investors and bankers targeting Japanese PFI
  • Derivatives transactions with Hungarian investment funds
  • Deutsche Bank has lost a senior counsel to one of the law firms that it regularly outsources work to. Wolfgang Gross moved to Hengeler Mueller Weitzel Wirtz in Frankfurt in April and was immediately sent on a three-month secondment to the New York office of US 'best friend' Davis Polk & Wardwell.
  • Jonathan Walsh and Will Farrant of Norton Rose, London explain how the new UK regulator, the FSA, will change securitization for building societies as it aims to harmonize the regulations for banks and mutuals
  • Administrative assistance under narrow conditions