February 2000

Main

Foreign investors snap up Korean bargains

UK firms lead interest in Korean Bar reform

Champagne puts fizz into French

Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham in UK’s largest merger

Vodaphone secures largest ever syndicated loan

Milbank Tweed notches up second Asian LBO

Deals in brief

Pirelli sells $2.15 billion

UPC secures largest high yield offering at $1.6 billion

Salomons buys Schroders investment

News - Covington & Burling, Howard Smith & Levin to merge

Replacing the Depression’s final legacy

New banking act complicates merger review

Canada

Ukraine

Brazil

US structured finance

Germany

The Netherlands

Spain

Switzerland

Hong Kong’s reformed broker contribution rules

The legal aspects of doing business in Iran

Investment grade Korea revives securitization

Independent power projects in Saudi Arabia

Foreign brokers win access to US futures customers

Arthur Andersen takes Clifford Chance head

Freshfields knocks Sullivan & Cromwell off European top spot

In Brief

The virtual lawyer comes of age

Shearman & Sterling bolsters Dusseldorf practice

White & Case expands in the Middle East

UK firm forges new European alliance

Clifford Chance merges in Luxembourg

Haarmann Hemmelrath unveils its new London team

Morrison & Foerster hitches tax practice to KPMG

Simpson Thacher and Cravath handle AOL Time Warner deal

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