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  • Financial supervisor accepts internet as sole place for subscription
  • The new French Electricity Act
  • Brazil commits to lifting exchange controls
  • Cleary Gottlieb completes German high-yield bond
  • 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.