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  • The US financial services industry has opened to competition.
  • One of Washington’s most highly regarded law firms, Covington & Burling, announced last month that it would merge with the smaller firm of Howard, Smith & Levin.
  • Salomon Smith Barney of the US, a subsidiary of Citigroup, is buying the investment banking group of the UK's Schroders for £1.35 billion ($2.23 billion).
  • United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) has succeeded in its bid to raise $1.6 billion through a high-yield bond in late January.
  • Pirelli has announced the sale of its terrestrial optical systems business to Cisco Systems for $2.15 billion in the latter company's shares.
  • UK firm Allen & Overy is advising on one of the first true acquisition financings in the UAE. Albert Abela Corp, a company specializing in services such as in-flight and hotel catering, is to buy Unilever's African & Eastern Group. Unilever's operations include liquor outlets which supply licensed purchasers, hotels and the airport Duty Free. There are less than 10 licenses to operate such suppliers in the UAE.
  • US firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has secured its second significant leveraged buy-out (LBO) in Asia's improving markets.
  • Vodaphone AirTouch has raised a euro30 billion ($29.8 billion) syndicated loan in connection with its bid to buy German telecommunications company Mannesmann.
  • During the economic crisis of 1997, Korea promised to open its legal market to international competition, but the extent of liberalization is still undecided. Koreans want little change, as slow as possible. US firms seem unconcerned. But UK firms have been lobbying hard for an open market. Rob Mannix reports