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Inside-White & Case in merger talks with Brown & Wood

"We are in conversations with Brown & Wood, looking towards a merger," says James Hurlock, chair of the management committee of New York firm White & Case. Talks began in late October, and the firms hope to have an agreement, if the discussions progress satisfactorily, by the end of February. A merger would create the world's fifth largest law firm.

January 01, 1999

Kelley Drye & Warren poaches top partners for expanding practices

New York law firm Kelley Drye & Warren has made lateral hires to set up an International Trade and Investment Group and expand its Financial Institutions Group.

January 01, 1999

Debt-equity swaps — a solution for Russian loans?

Robert Sexton of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, Paris explains how debt-equity swaps could help foreign creditors seeking recovery of Russian loans given the precedent of the US junk bond crisis

January 01, 1999

New investment opportunities in German energy

The German government has been formulating plans for energy reform since early 1996 and a new energy bill has finally been completed. By Jan Byok of Wessing

January 01, 1999

Advisers on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Eurobond

The British government and London & Continental Railways (LCR) have announced the advisers for the planned financing of the first stage of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (IFLR December 1998). HSBC and Warburg Dillon Read have been appointed as joint lead managers and arrangers on next year’s Eurobond offering, which is expected to raise £2.65 billion ($4.45 billion). Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott says: “These appointments are a significant milestone in the financing of this exciting project.”

January 01, 1999

Tyco buys AMP for $11.3 billion

The industrial conglomerate Tyco has announced that it is to acquire AMP in an all-stock deal. The offer has rescued the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based electrical equipment manufacturer from the hostile takeover attempt by AlliedSignal announced in the summer. Tyco’s offer tops AlliedSignal’s cash bid by $1.6 billion.

January 01, 1999

KPN and Qwest to form Europe’s biggest internet traffic network

Dutch communications utility KPN, and US communications carrier Qwest are joining forces to put $700 million-worth of fibreoptic links into a network that will provide internet links across Europe. The venture, named KPN Qwest, will start in January. The companies plan to spend $500m more on the project in the next two years.

January 01, 1999

Inside-New chairman for UK Law Commission

Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, has appointed a new chairman for the UK Law Commission, the body responsible for examining possible reforms to legislation. Justice Robert Carnwath will take up his position in February.

January 01, 1999

Salans partner moves to Freshfields

UK firm Freshfields has appointed US arbitration lawyer Eric Schwartz, a former partner in the Paris office of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, as partner in its arbitration practice. Resident in the Paris office of Freshfields, Schwartz expects to take advantage of a greater depth of resources than he found at his old firm.

January 01, 1999

Surviving Russias meltdown

Brenda Horrigan and Theodore Matheny of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn examine the background to the crisis and suggest solutions to regenerate the securities market and banking sector

January 01, 1999

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