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  • In a second landmark deal last month, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy closed, Brazil's largest ever project financing. The US firm acted as lead lenders counsel on the $2.5 billion financing of the Barracuda and Caratinga oil and gas fields off the Brazilian coast.
  • The supervisory board of Deutsche Börse announced in December that it had agreed to let the exchange go public. The flotation is likely to take place in the first quarter of this year.
  • A bid to harmonize legislation on company takeovers in Europe that has been over a decade in the making may have to be scrapped. Sponsors of the directive fear last minute amendments proposed by the European Parliament will make it impossible to ratify.
  • When Ecuador defaulted on its Brady bonds in August 1999, it entered new territory for a sovereign issuer. More than a year later it seems to have answered many of the questions raised by its attempts to reschedule the debt. Lee C Buchheit of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, adviser to the Republic, explains the challenges involved and the legal innovations used to save Ecuador from its default
  • SJ Berwin has raided Baker & McKenzie's German venture capital and private equity funds group, as the UK firm's German arm details plans to establish a presence in the emerging Munich market.
  • The EU's committee of wise men has criticised the sluggish pace at which Europe has been moving towards increased market harmonization.
  • The US is an increasingly popular hunting ground for non-US companies looking to make acquisitions. Before they do so, however, they are well advised to prepare to meet the regulatory environment. Mark Bergman, head of the securities group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, discusses the options and dangers ahead of them
  • Rehabilitation law to increase DIP financingKomatsu Koma & Nishikawa, Tokyo
  • Simmons & Simmons and Norton Rose have finished work on the latest mortgage-backed securitization to hit the UK market. The deal, on behalf of first-time issuer Bristol & West, raised £300 million ($421 million).
  • Telstra and Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) surprised nobody with their counsel for the two companies' joint venture in Hong Kong. PCCW retained Simmons & Simmons while Telstra turned to Mallesons Stephen Jaques. Both firms have strong relationships with the repsective corporations.