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  • Last week's IMF announcement stating that it is developing best practice guidelines for sovereign wealth funds has received a muted response
  • Cravath Swaine & Moore has advised the directors of Canadian paper company AbitibiBowater on the placement of $350 million unregistered convertible debentures with Fairfax Financial Holdings. The securities are part of a $1.4 billion refinancing by AbitibiBowater. The debentures have an 8% cash coupon and expire in 2013; they are also convertible into shares worth $10 each. In return Fairfax, an institutional investor, will appoint two directors to AbitibiBowater's board.
  • German firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has launched an office in Switzerland due to growing client demand. The office will be led by former Harmann partner Holger Erwin and will focus on German law issues.
  • Latham & Watkins, Allen & Overy and Norton Rose have acted on Balmoral Capital's acquisition of UK luxury boat builder Oyster Marine.
  • Counsel are being blamed for companies' failure to meet payment commitments on badly performing structured derivatives products in India
  • White & Case has advised Visa in the largest IPO in US corporate history. Market observers had shown concerns about the deal's viability because of the threat of a global economic downturn. But the electronic payment network raised a record $19.7 billion.
  • Norton Rose has advised the Kingdom of Bahrain on the first sovereign sukuk to be listed on the London Stock Exchange.
  • Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have all landed roles on the €800 million acquisition of a minority stake in CEE real-estate developer Meinl European Land.
  • Arias Fabrega & Fabrega (Arifa) has advised BNP Paribas on the financing of a road project in Panama.
  • US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's recommendations regarding the credit crisis last week have gained support from the legal community