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  • Lawyers and bankers have dusted off their old Tracker Fund documents and are re-using some of the same tricks to sell shares in Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) this month.
  • Dresdner Bank is buying US investment bank Wasserstein Perella for $1.6 billion. Wasserstein is a well respected M&A boutique. Dresdner says it will combine its Dresdner Kleinwort Benson investment banking division with Wasserstein under the name Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
  • New York law firm Cravath Swaine & Moore is advising AXA, the financial services group, on its offer to acquire the 39.7 % minority interest in AXA Financial for $10.4 billion.
  • The Punch Group has refinanced its UK pub estate with a £1.48 billion ($2.2 billion) asset-backed securitization. James Harbach (global securities) and Mark Burgess-Smith (real estate) at Linklaters & Alliance advised Ambac Assurance UK, guaranteeing £630 million of senior fixed and floating rate notes.
  • Linklaters is advising French wine and spirits company, Remy Cointreau, on the acquisition of Bols Royal Distilleries of the Netherlands. Remy Cointreau will acquire 100% of Bols Royal Distilleries for euro 510 million ($446 million), payable partly in cash and partly in Remy Cointreau shares. The combined company will have a stronger presence worldwide, particularly in central and eastern Europe where Bols is a market leader.
  • UK drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes, will pay $1.5 billion to buy Snapple Beverage Group, the US drinks company, from US company Triarc. The deal was formally announced on September 18 and completion is expected by November.
  • Tiscali, the Italian internet operator, is merging with World Online, the European internet service provider. The deal, worth $11 billion, is the largest in the European internet market to date. It creates the second largest internet company in Europe.
  • Clifford Chance has advised Société Générale on a floor plan securitization for Hyundai Motor Finance. Hyundai was advised by Latham & Watkins.
  • Lovells is to open two Italian offices, in Milan and Rome, this month. In its first foray into the Italian market the firm has got off to a good start with the appointment of three partners from leading Italian firms, Pavia e Ansaldo and Gianni Origoni & Partners.
  • Rachel Robbins, JP Morgan