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  • The Paris office of UK firm Freshfields has welcomed the arrival of one of Europe's leading securities lawyers. Patrick Bonvarlet started at the firm on April 17, leaving behind Dutch/Belgian/French practice Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot & Giroux. At Freshfields, Bonvarlet has teamed up with partners Gavin Darlington and Arnaud Peres, helping to develop the firm's European securities and M&A practice.
  • SJ Berwin acts for Eurocity Properties on listing, CMG bids £1.4 billion for the UK’s Admiral, Davis Polk advises DLJ’s merchant bank funds, Herbert Smith acts for Stagecoach Holdings
  • Baker & McKenzie is acting for a Polish leasing company on its dual equity listing. Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy (EFL) has launched an international and domestic offering of shares and global depositary receipts (GDRs) on the London and Warsaw stock exchanges. Bakers’ role is international transaction and company counsel. The value of the offering, consisting of new issue shares, was $82 million.
  • Herbert Smith acted for Lazard Capital Markets, joint lead manager in a secondary offering of 8% of the issued share capital of Yazicilar Otomotiv ve Gida Yatirim ve Pazarlama Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, a company incorporated in Turkey. The offering raised approximately $125 million
  • Merrill Lynch and HSBC have announced that they are forming a joint venture to provide what they call “the first global online banking and investment services company”. The new company will be co-branded ‘Merrill Lynch HSBC’ and its formal name will be announced shortly.
  • In the Philippines, knowing who to talk to can be one of your most important assets, both as a client and as a lawyer. With investors returning and foreign firms still barred, finding a way through the network is as important as ever. By Greg Ford
  • UK firm Simmons & Simmons has recently completed work negotiating a strategic partnership that will implement one of the world’s largest integrated energy projects.
  • In the first acquisition of a Paris-listed bank by a foreign institution, HSBC Holdings is buying Crédit Commercial de France in a deal worth $10.6 billion. Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton is acting as legal adviser to HSBC and local firm Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier for Crédit Commercial.
  • Jonathan Walsh and Will Farrant of Norton Rose, London explain how the new UK regulator, the FSA, will change securitization for building societies as it aims to harmonize the regulations for banks and mutuals
  • Lawyers in Hong Kong and Singapore are relishing renewed investor confidence in Indonesia. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Norton Rose and Herbert Smith are among the first to advise on foreign investments into Indonesia since the downturn.