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  • Freshfields sharpens European focus
    UK firm Freshfields has announced further expansion of its Amsterdam office with the hiring of Winfred Knibbeler, a leading competition lawyer. Knibbeler will joins as partner from Dutch firm Nauta Dutilh.
    March 31 2000
  • Ancien French security structure puts the fizz into champagne industry
    Richard Parolai and John Woodhall of Clifford Chance, advisers to Nomura International, explain how an old French legal device was used in the first champagne securitization, which closed in late March
    March 31 2000
  • BSCH extends Latin American links with Patagon.com
    Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH) is to acquire Patagon.com, an Internet brokerage company, in a deal valued at $500 million. The online Miami company will increase BSCH's reach into Latin America, where Patagon.com has websites in all the major Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.
    March 31 2000
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia acquires Colonial
    The Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced last month that it intends to buy Colonial Limited for $5.7 billion. The combined group will be among Australia's market leaders for lending deposits and asset management. It will also become the country's third largest issuer of new life insurance premiums.
    March 31 2000
  • VeriSign buys Network Solutions for $21 billion
    Fenwick & West and Davis Polk & Wardwell are advising on the largest merger involving a Silicon Valley company. The deal is VeriSign's acquisition of Network Solutions and is valued at $21 billion. The agreement was announced on March 7 and is also the second largest involving Internet companies.
    March 31 2000
  • Simmons & Simmons grabs two deals in Hong Kong
    Simmons & Simmons has been used as adviser on two of Hong Kong's largest recent deals, underlining its status in the market. In the first, the UK firm advised Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) on its acquisition of Cable & Wireless HKT. The successful bid is one the largest takeovers in Asia with a value of $36 billion. Cable & Wireless owns a 54% stake in HKT. The merger will make PCCW the third largest company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
    March 31 2000
  • Shearman & Sterling recruits non-lawyer to board
    US law firm Shearman & Sterling has hired a non-lawyer, Clinton Kendrick, to its executive board. The firm calls Kendrick "an international financial services executive and entrepreneur". He joins the firm from Matrix Global Investments, where he was CEO. The other members of the four-man board are: Stephen Volk, senior partner; Whitney Pidot, managing partner; and David Heleniak, European coordinator.
    March 31 2000
  • All change as Freehills adopts national partnership
    The regional partnerships of Australia's Freehill Hollingdale & Page voted at the start of March to adopt a single national partnership. The new arrangement will become effective as of July 1 of this year.
    March 31 2000
  • Switzerland
    Tax relief for venture capital firms
    March 31 2000
  • First European shopping centre securitized
    The Trafford Centre in Manchester, one of the UK's largest shopping centres, has become the first of its kind in Europe to launch a securitization financing.
    March 31 2000
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