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  • KKR and Stefano Pessina's $21.3 billion bid for Alliance Boots on Tuesday signalled the first FTSE 100 company to succumb to private equity
  • Belgian-based bancassurers KBC Group has won an auction to take 92.5% of Absolut Bank in Russia for $1.01 billion. Baker & McKenzie advised KBC Group throughout the process that began in the fourth quarter of 2006. At this stage, there were over 20 potential bidders, but by the end there were only two rivals. The other bidders had to withdraw due to their own involvement in other European M&A deals.
  • ABN Amro is the subject of rival bids from Barclays and a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland - the success of either depends on the Dutch bank's US arm
  • Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) is to use controversial covenant-lite loans in its takeover of the British chemist Alliance Boots
  • Malayan Banking (Maybank) has issued the world's first Islamic US-dollar subordinated bank capital sukuk
  • Ashurst has expanded its German corporate practice by hiring Lutz Englisch as a new partner. Englisch is joining the firm from his position as a senior in-house lawyer at Siemens.
  • Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed a $15 billion deal for US biotech MedImmune.
  • Chinese conglomerate Beijing Enterprises has acquired Beijing Gas Group (BVI) from Beijing Enterprises Group, which is wholly-owned by the Beijing municipal government, for HK$11.6 billion ($1.4 billion)
  • The US Securities and Exchange Commission is moving closer to allowing the use of International Financial Reporting Standards in financial reports
  • Japan's raised sovereign debt rating of AA from Standard & Poor's is symbolic, but will not affect deal flow, says Tim Lester, managing partner of Lovells' Tokyo office