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Recommended firms Tier 1 Allen & Overy Luxembourg Arendt & Medernach Bonn Schmitt Steichen Elvinger Hoss & Prussen Linklaters Loesch Tier 2 Kremer Associés & Clifford Chance Luxembourg's M&A market was dominated by one merger this year as steel manufacturer Mittal took over Arcelor for €26 billion ($33 billion).

Recommended firms Tier 1 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Osler Hoskin & Harcourt Stikeman Elliott Torys Tier 2 Bennett Jones Blake Cassels & Graydon Goodmans McCarthy Tétrault Ogilvy Renault Canadian M&A had a record-breaking 2006 as foreign investment and private equity transactions drove further growth.

Recommended firms Tier 1 Allens Arthur Robinson Blake Dawson Waldron Clayton Utz Freehills Mallesons Stephen Jaques Tier 2 Gilbert + Tobin Minter Ellison Tier 3 Atanaskovic Hartnell Baker & McKenzie Australia's M&A market has enjoyed strong growth this year, almost doubling its total deal value from the same period in 2005.

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Recommended firms Tier 1 Advokatfirman Vinge Mannheimer Swartling Tier 2 Gernandt & Danielsson Linklaters White & Case Advokat Vinge and Mannheimer Swartling stayed ahead of their rivals in 2006. Both firms made the most of private equity funds looking to invest in Sweden. Though financial sponsor deal count was down on last year, value soared by 57% to $12.5 billion. Mannheimer advises 3i, Altor and Accent Equity; Vinge acts for EQT, a private equity consortium of the Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners.

Europe Andrea Cristaudi has left Simmons & Simmons to join Pavesio e Associati in what is the first lateral hire for the Allen & Overy Turin breakaway firm. He specializes in domestic and cross-border M&A and equity capital markets transactions. Cristaudi had been mentored by managing partner Carlo Pavesio in Allen & Overy's Turin office. Having been made partner at the Milan office Cristaudi then left for Simmons & Simmons in June 2005. He will be reunited with Pavesio when the breakaway firm launches at the start of next year, by which time Pavesio intends to have made more hires. Pavesio e Associati will focus on corporate finance, regulation and litigation and will have a formal alliance with Allen & Overy despite being financially independent.

In line with the European treaty establishing the principle of free movement of capital (the Single European Act), the National Bank of Romania (the NBR) recently repealed the last of its provisions impeding this free movement. The enactment (NBR Regulation 4/2006) sets out the new status of the foreign exchange market.

Recommended firms Tier 1 Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Linklaters Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Morrison & Foerster Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu Nishimura & Partners Tier 2 Clifford Chance Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Jones Day Skadden Arps Sullivan & Cromwell M&A activity has increased in Japan, though the total value of inbound investment has decreased. Private equity-backed M&A almost doubled in the number of deals, with 127 in January to November this year, compared to 72 in the same period last year.

Recommended firms Tier 1 Bonelli Erede Pappalardo Chiomenti Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners Tier 2 Clifford Chance Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Public equity activity in Italy has soared over the last 12 months in the face of a slight decline in the volume and value of private equity deals. The growth in the value of public equity means that despite a fall in the total number of M&A deals from 2005 to 2006 their cumulative value has risen from $85.4 billion to $137.8 billion.