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Provision of link services for offshore internet-listed securities transactionsClaro y Cia, Santiago

The $45 billion mega-merger between General Electric Company and Honeywell International, the largest ever industrial acquisition, has attracted a crowd of interested firms. Arnold & Porter has deployed a heavyweight team of antitrust lawyers to advise General Electric, led by firm chairman Michael Sohn and including head of antitrust William Baer. Clifford Chance has been retained for competition work outside the US and Canada. Simon Baxter, Chris Bright and Marlene Van Kerckhove lead a team including lawyers from London, Brussels, Budapest, Prague and Warsaw.

The EU's committee of wise men has criticised the sluggish pace at which Europe has been moving towards increased market harmonization.

Rehabilitation law to increase DIP financingKomatsu Koma & Nishikawa, Tokyo

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's new Asian acquisition finance group has helped Mercury, an acquisition company owned by Citicorp Venture Capital, the Carlyle Group and Prudential, to acquire the profitable remnants of Daewoo Telecom for 330 billion won ($294 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.

Allen & Overy advised CIBC World Markets on its AAA-rated Eiwa securitization. The financing of the Japanese consumer finance company closed in early November and used a host of structures not usually seen outside of the US.

George Link, Allen & Overy Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy have been chosen above local firms to advise on Deutsche Telekom's euro18 billion ($15 billion) syndicated loan facility.

Advisers on largest Baltic M&A

In a year when Germany has produced some of the biggest equity offerings around, November was – in a way - just another month. This time it was the state-owned mail and logistics group Deutsche Post to turn heads with an initial public offering (IPO) raising euro6.6 billion ($5.6 billion) at its November 20 launch.