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  • Mid-July saw the largest Turkish initial public offering (IPO) to date with Turkcell's floatation on the New York and Istanbul exchanges. The 11% stake in the company released in the IPO raised a total of $1.7 billion, valuing the company at approximately $16 billion.
  • UBS, the Swiss financial group and world's largest private bank, is buying PaineWebber, the fourth largest private client bank in the US, for $10.8 billion. The deal gives UBS access to PaineWebber's $475 billion worth of client assets.
  • Standard Chartered is completing its acquisition of the Middle Eastern and South Asian operations of Grindlays, a bank within the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). The value of the deal is expected to hit $1.34 billion.
  • They say you can have too much of a good thing, but you won't find the law firms that have become part of Deutsche Telekom's gang of advisers complaining. With three multi-billion dollar flotations behind them and a world-beating bond issue just completed, you can bet they are very happy indeed. And there is more to come.
  • Late June and early July saw a flurry of equity issues closing as bankers, lawyers and corporate chiefs alike tried to clear their desks before a well-earned summer reprieve. Among the offerings for those picking up investments before picking up the suntan lotion were two technology flotations - Zen Research and Orchestream – which took place in London under Chapter 25 of the listing rules of the UK Listing Authority. Allen & Overy, was involved in both through its relationship with UBS Warburg.
  • The Moscow telecom group Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has become the first Russian company to launch an initial public offering (IPO) and secure a New York Stock Exchange listing since Russia's financial downturn in 1998. MTS launched $307 million worth of American Depositary Shares, with Deutsche Bank London and ING Barings the global coordinators and joint bookrunners. Lead managers were Credit Suisse First Boston, JP Morgan Securities, Renaissance Capital and Schroder Salomon Smith Barney.
  • Lovells is enjoying a good year with client Granada. The UK television group has kept three teams at the firm busy so far and looks as if it may have more work on hand as it continues to play a role in the struggle for dominance in the UK's commercial television market.
  • In early July Clifford Chance advised on the first initial public offering (IPO) to take place simultaneously on three European exchanges. The flotation of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS) company, which took place on the Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid exchanges, raised approximately euro 3 billion ($2.8 billion). The IPO values EADS at euro 15.4 billion.
  • PetroChina's March listing in Hong Kong and New York was the biggest sale of PRC oil industry assets to date. Its IPO is the latest step in a long march towards a thorough restructuring of China's oil industry. But Mark Day of White & Case, Hong Kong, asks if the industry can survive WTO
  • Robert McDowell and Robert Elliott of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, Toronto, explain the highlights of Canada's new financial legislation. Part one of a two part series looks at the new rules for ownership of banks and insurance companies