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Shearman and Freshfields team up for $505 million private equity deal

Allen & Overy and Linklaters have teamed up with two Finnish law firms to work on a €1billion ($1.75 billion) cross-border brewery merger. Partner Matthew Middleditch is leading a Linklaters team working with local counsel Dittmar & Indrenius to advise Scottish & Newcastle on its conditional takeover offer for Hartwall, Finland's leading beer and soft drinks company. The Scottish & Newcastle brewing group includes the UK's Scottish Courage, France's Brasseries Kronenbourg and Belgium's Alken Maes. Hartwall's portfolio includes Finland's most popular lager, Lapin Kulta.

The chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has called for increased due diligence on credit derivatives deals to prevent litigation over possible legal flaws.

Maheen Pfeffer of Afridi Angell & Khan, Islamabad, assess the prospects for foreign investment and growth in the power industry

In the second of a three-part series, Philip Gilligan and John Banks of Lovells, Hong Kong, explain the key issues to be considered when planning to buy a bank in Asia

The sharp contraction in US consumer spending has had a nasty knock-on effect in developing economies, leaving many companies needing to restructure their debt to survive. Neil Whoriskey of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Hong Kong, gives an invaluable guide to successful restructuring and avoiding the many pitfalls it poses to companies

Under Law No19,601 enacted on January 18 1999, a public offering of offshore securities or securities deposit receipts (SDRs) can only take place in Chile if they have been previously registered in the Special Registry of Offshore Securities (ROS) kept by the Superintendency of Securities and Insurance (the SVS).

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton has acted as US and Russian counsel on a $227 million offering for Russian dairy products and juice company Wimm-Bill-Dann.

Like in many other European countries, Belgian companies have recently been setting up captive reinsurance companies in Luxembourg or Ireland to avoid or reduce taxes.

Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy have acted on the SFr 580 million ($342 million) management buy-out of the Swiss airport company Swissport International. European buy-out specialist Candover has bought the company from the bankrupt Swiss airline SwissAir. Clifford Chance partners David Pearson and Ian Bagshaw led the team advising Candover, while Allen & Overy banking partner Jacqueline Evans and corporate partner Jeremy Hunt advised Royal Bank of Scotland, the leader of a syndicate of five banks including ING, West LB, HypoVereinsbank and HBOS.