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  • The Paris office of UK firm Freshfields has welcomed the arrival of one of Europe's leading securities lawyers. Patrick Bonvarlet started at the firm on April 17, leaving behind Dutch/Belgian/French practice Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot & Giroux. At Freshfields, Bonvarlet has teamed up with partners Gavin Darlington and Arnaud Peres, helping to develop the firm's European securities and M&A practice.
  • Baker & McKenzie is acting for a Polish leasing company on its dual equity listing. Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy (EFL) has launched an international and domestic offering of shares and global depositary receipts (GDRs) on the London and Warsaw stock exchanges. Bakers’ role is international transaction and company counsel. The value of the offering, consisting of new issue shares, was $82 million.
  • Merrill Lynch and HSBC have announced that they are forming a joint venture to provide what they call “the first global online banking and investment services company”. The new company will be co-branded ‘Merrill Lynch HSBC’ and its formal name will be announced shortly.
  • Allen & Overy is set to offer its clients Japanese legal advice. According to bar rules foreign firms cannot directly offer Japanese advice, but Allen & Overy is setting up a joint venture with a local firm.
  • Hubert Blanc-Jouvan of Allen & Overy, Paris argues that without reforms French companies are prevented from freely investing in certain categories of securities outside France
  • Clifford Chance advised HSBC bank on the UK’s first collateralized loan obligation (CLO) securitization using revolving trust technology. With a value of $850 million, the deal is also the largest CLO by a UK bank this year.
  • Ben Maiden reports from Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen where entrepreneurs, technology clients and regional cooperation are driving Nordic economies and changing the way lawyers are doing business
  • Linklaters & Alliance has added four corporate lawyers to its expanding Madrid office. The four lawyers include Ignacio Santillán formerly head of legal at the SCLV-trading and settlement body for the Spanish stock exchanges and wholesale private debt market, AIAF. Santillán was also an adviser to the CNMV, Spain's securities regulator.
  • Allen & Overy has completed its second recent property securitization by advising Northern Rock on its £750 million ($1.2 billion) financing.
  • Linklaters has advised Zambia Copper Investments, a subsidiary of Anglo American, on its acquisition of the privatized assets of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM).