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Simmons & Simmons is pitching for US securities work after netting its first US-qualified securities partner in the UK. Christopher Lewis, a senior associate in the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, has joined the firm's capital markets group.

Mayer Brown & Platt is expecting to scoop at least three new securitization deals after hiring Drew Salvest to strengthen its US-law capabilities.

In the first of a three-part series, Philip Gilligan and John Banks of Lovells, Hong Kong, examine the causes behind the boom in M&A activity in the Asian banking industry and explain how such deals can be structured

A recently completed study in Canada found that collars, which are used to stabilize a bidder's stock acquisition currency, have been used in approximately 2% of takeover bids for public companies over the past three years. Although the number of deals appears low, two of the five largest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals of 2000 in Canada employed collars. Both Vivendi's C$41.6 billion ($26.1 billion) acquisition of Seagram and Shire Pharmaceuticals Group's C$5.9 billion acquisition of BioChem Pharma utilized collar structures to increase certainty for their transactions.

Construction companies are often not used to dealing with special purpose companies (SPCs) on large infrastructure projects. When it comes to negotiating a contract on such a project, they need to ask the right questions to find out, among other things, about the commitments the SPC has obtained for required debt and equity. Robert Vitale of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York, answers the key questions

Clifford Chance lawyers have closed the first fixed-line telecommunications securitization of the year.

Swiss private equity: structural issues and recent developments By Mark Barmes and Beat Kühni of Lenz & Staehelin

Leveraged buy-outs By Annapaola Negri-Clementi and Paolo Montironi of NCTM Negri-Clementi Toffoletto Montironi & Soci, Milan

Developments in the venture capital industry By Marco de Lignie and Herman Kaemingk of Loyens & Loeff

German tax issues for private equity funds By Christoph Lorenz of KPMG