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The UK Parliament is expected to pass the Financial Services and Markets Bill by spring 2000

The SEC’s new rules on cross-border M&A offers and rights offerings become effective in the New Year.

Clifford Chance has advised Deutsche Bank on the first securitization of receivables from a single airline lessee in Europe — a euro 195 million ($210 million) deal for Iberia. The transaction applies a well-developed US structure in Europe for the first time, creating a product that could radically change air finance in the region. It allows single airlines to raise money through securitization as an alternative to the conventional bank-loan and leasing markets, which are increasingly expensive and becoming less liquid.

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae Moscow

Following reports of discontent at the decision to merge with Clifford Chance, the Paris office of Rogers & Wells has agreed to become the first overseas office for New York's Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.

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Structuring management buy-outs

Matsushita of Japan and Siemens of Germany launched the IPO of an approximately 75% stake in their joint venture, Epcos, on October 15. The offering is a dual listing on the New York and Frankfurt stock exchanges. It raised approximately euro 1.3 billion ($1.4 billion), making it one of the largest IPOs on the Frankfurt stock market. Epcos is one of Europe's largest manufacturers of passive electronic components.

Baker & McKenzie is advising on the most recent privatization in Eastern Europe. In mid-October, the government of Croatia sold a 35% stake in its telecoms operator, Hrvatske Telekomunikacije, to Deutsche Telekom for $850 million. The sale to Deutsche Telekom followed a successful bidding competition with a consortium comprising Telia and Telenor.

International investors beware of foreign securities laws