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  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has put together a secondary offering for Reed Elsevier enabling the company to raise $1.7 billion and expand its shareholding base without making a rights issue to existing investors.
  • Australia and New Zealand are no longer as isolated as their far-flung locations would suggest, but their lawyers are still struggling to stay in the race for globalization. Nick Ferguson reports from Sydney and Auckland on how being big and being good may not be enough if firms’ strategies are not clear
  • Denton Wilde Sapte has completed a three year transaction which could provide natural gas for the first time to customers in Mozambique and South Africa. Denton advised Mozambique's state-owned oil company ENH on the $1.8 billion joint venture with SASOL, a South African synthetic fuel and chemicals group, which will enable them to develop Mozambique's two natural gas fields.
  • The mobile phone operator Telefónica Móviles has launched a $2.8 billion initial public offering (IPO), Spain's largest ever flotation. Telefónica Móviles, a division of Spain's largest telecom company Telefónica, coordinated the listing of 300 million shares on the Spanish bourse. The New York Stock Exchange also carried the stock in the form of American depositary shares.
  • Norton Rose has acted for France Télécom's internet operation Wanadoo on the $2.4 billion acquisition of UK Internet provider Freeserve.
  • Latham & Watkins's Singapore and Hong Kong offices represented the shareholders in Sithe Pacific's $490 million sale of plant assets and investments in Thailand. Freshfields represented Tractabel.
  • NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone operator, has appointed Lovells to advise on its acquisition of a 20% stake in KG Telecommunications, a Taiwanese mobile operator.
  • In a second landmark deal last month, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy closed, Brazil's largest ever project financing. The US firm acted as lead lenders counsel on the $2.5 billion financing of the Barracuda and Caratinga oil and gas fields off the Brazilian coast.
  • "We looked at a lot of different people—bigger, smaller—but this is like Goldilocks: the porridge is just right."
  • The supervisory board of Deutsche Börse announced in December that it had agreed to let the exchange go public. The flotation is likely to take place in the first quarter of this year.