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  • The UK's Prudential has launched the first internet-only offering of shares, valuing the company at approximately £1.3 billion ($1.95 billion). The issue was a primary and secondary offering of 20% of the company's stake in Egg. Egg is a provider of on-line banking and financial intermediate services.
  • Regulators in Singapore and the US have joined forces to crack down on fraud. The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will both work with the Singapore Monetary Authority (MAS) on possible violations of securities and futures rules.
  • The UK mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse has decided to float on the London Stock Exchange, with a valuation that could reach as high as £2 billion ($3 billion).
  • Shearman & Sterling and Allen & Overy have shocked the German legal community by taking eight partners each from the German firm Schilling Zutt & Anschütz. The 16 Schilling departures represent nearly half of the 35-lawyer firm, and come after Schilling failed to reach merger agreements with both firms earlier this year.
  • Lovells Frankfurt hires asset finance partner
  • Partners at White & Case and German firm Feddersen Laule Ewerwahn Scherzberg Finkelnburg Clemm voted last month to merge the two firms with effect from July 1. The move is the first significant merger between a US and German firm and is the largest strategic move into Germany from the US since Shearman & Sterling arrived in the early nineties.
  • Bill Rubin, one of the chief counsels at the EBRD, is to return to private practice after seven years at the bank. The move is an important boost for Weil Gotshal's London office, which has suffered a number of partner losses over recent months.
  • Denton Wilde Sapte has merged with its French associate firm, Salès Vincent & Associés. The new firm, to be called Denton Salès Vincent & Thomas, has retained five partners and their teams from Salès Vincent, as well as bringing in four other partners from outside the association.
  • Exchangeable shares level the playing field for foreign bidders
  • By Miguel Angel Quintana of Noriega y Escobedo