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Croatia has obtained $900 million to finance the Istrian motorway PPP project.

Slaughter and May represented automotive component supplier, Honsel, in the financing of the Tafime Group acquisition.

"We haven't seen so many offerings at any time in the past 20 years, perhaps even ever." So says one local partner about the state of Portugal's equity capital markets. And to keep the equity lawyers especially busy, many of them have been called in to advise on the share acquisition aspects of the country's recent surge in M&A. In particular, the takeover offer launched by Sonaecom for Portugal Telecom Multimedia seems to have required the services of almost every equity partner in Lisbon.

Laurence Liu, head of the Association of Corporate Counsel in China

Mexico Recommended firms Tier 1 Creel García-Cuéllar y Müggenburg Galicia y Robles Mijares Angoitia Cortés y Fuentes Ritch Mueller White & Case Tier 2 Jáuregui Navarrete y Nadar Kuri Breña Sánchez Ugarte Corcuera y Aznar Martínez Algaba Estrella de Haro y Galván-Duque Santamarina y Steta Tier 3 Baker & McKenzie Bello Gallardo Morales y Tsuru Berdeja Abogados González Calvillo Holland & Knight – Gallastegui y Lozano Romo Paillés Guzmán After a fiercely contested election in 2006, Felipe Calderón took office as president of Mexico in January 2007. The slim victory margin ensures few radical changes, suggesting stability for the country's financial markets. Calderón also offers a sense of continuity with the previous administration, and what some market experts say is a "more professional, more sophisticated government" – pleasing for investors to hear.

The Netherlands Recommended firms Tier 1 Allen & Overy Clifford Chance De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Tier 2 Linklaters NautaDutilh Stibbe Tier 3 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Lovells Loyens & Loeff The Dutch equity capital markets are bustling. Companies are rushing to list on the Dutch Stock Exchange both from within the Netherlands and from overseas. The country's liberal tax regime is encouraging investors to buy companies elsewhere in Europe and in America and to float them on Euronext Amsterdam. And initial public offerings (IPOs) are an increasingly attractive exit strategy for private-equity houses.

Luxembourg Recommended firms Tier 1 Allen & Overy Luxembourg Arendt & Medernach Elvinger Hoss & Prussen Linklaters Tier 2 Bonn Schmitt Steichen Kremer Associés & Clifford Chance NautaDutilh Luxembourg has been buzzing with activity following a surge of takeover activity. Private-equity firms in particular have used the jurisdiction to structure buyouts due to Luxembourg's friendly regulatory framework.

Equity slowly picks up Equity capital markets activity in the French market, which was practically dead between 2001 and 2004, has been picking up, although the beginning of 2007 was a little slow with fewer initial public offerings (IPOs) than the previous year. There has been a decrease in the number of privatizations using the capital markets – the last one was EDF – although the country's new president Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that he will be signing off state assets. And the buoyant M&A market has meant that equity offerings are quite often made to finance acquisitions.

Denmark Recommended firms Tier 1 Gorrissen Federspiel Kierkegaard Kromann Reumert Tier 2 Bech-Bruun Plesner Svane Grønborg Tier 3 Accura Jonas Bruun Tier 4 DLA Nordic Lett Rønne & Lundgren Denmark's banking and finance market remains healthy, with significant activity reported in asset finance, equity capital markets and acquisition finance – particularly in the biotech sector.

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