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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.
  • US firm Sullivan & Cromwell has boosted its M&A capability in its London office by relocating a highly-rated M&A partner from New York, together with two colleagues. Neil Anderson has arrived in the UK, gaining the title of head of the firm's European M&A practice. Joining him from New York is fellow M&A partner George Sampas and litigation partner Ted Edelman.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Allen & Overy has completed its second recent property securitization by advising Northern Rock on its £750 million ($1.2 billion) financing.
  • Herbert Smith acted for Lazard Capital Markets, joint lead manager in a secondary offering of 8% of the issued share capital of Yazicilar Otomotiv ve Gida Yatirim ve Pazarlama Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, a company incorporated in Turkey. The offering raised approximately $125 million
  • 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
  • Australian firms are keen to get into Singapore. But when Singapore hands out the five joint venture licences it will probably favour UK and US firms.