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  • UK firm Trowers & Hamlins has opened an office in Cairo. The creation of the new office will allow Trowers to develop its role as a Middle Eastern regional counsel for multinational corporations.
  • As part of their joint effort to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in central and eastern Europe, the European Commission and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have reached an agreement to establish a euro125 million SME Facility for the 10 central and eastern European countries that are candidates for European Union (EU) accession.
  • The new regulations on securitization in Italy allow for more flexible structuring of deals. Raffaele Rizzi of Baker & McKenzie, London explains how to match the right structure to the securitized assets
  • New York-based firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has appointed a firm chairman for the first time, with the aim of focusing on long-term issues and studying international opportunities. Alfred Youngwood, who is both chair of the firm and chair of the firm’s management committee, reveals that the first option being considered is a London office.
  • US firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett advised Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley on Sweden’s first ever high-yield bond issue.
  • A consortium including British Gas and Shell has bought a $1 billion controlling stake (53%) in Gas de Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest natural gas distributor*. This was the Brazilian government’s first privatization since the devaluation of the real in January. Gas de Sao Paulo serves around 300,000 mainly industrial customers in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state. The consortium’s bid was chosen in preference to several rival consortia, including one led by Enron and Agip of Italy.
  • Italy enacts new law on securitization
  • Eversheds’ associated Bulgarian office in the capital Sofia is to have a full time English qualified lawyer based there. Until now the UK firm has been represented in the jurisdiction by local firm Georgiev Todorov & Co, which has 32 lawyers.
  • France’s Renault and Japan’s Nissan are combining to create the world’s fourth largest car maker. Renault is taking a 36.8% stake in Nissan Motor, and a 22.5% stake in Nissan Diesel, the company’s truck division. All funds will have been transferred by the end of May. The new company will produce five million vehicles per year.
  • On April 23 1999, the Commission approved the takeover of Bankers Trust Corporation by Deutsche Bank.