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  • Telewest Communications and Flextech have announced that they intend to merge. The two companies have approximate market capitalizations of £10.1 billion ($16 billion) and £2.5 billion respectively.
  • Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn announced in March that it has hired Krzysztof Stefanowicz as its new IT and telecommunications partner in the Warsaw office. The arrival of Stefanowicz will increase the office's number of partners to four, and significantly expand its high-tech and telecommunications practice. Stefanowicz joins from Hogan & Hartson, also in Warsaw.
  • Amendment to promote securitization
  • Watson Farley & Williams announced on March 20 that it has acquired an entire Singapore team from French firm Klein Goddard. The six partners, one consultant, 15 fee-earners and two trainees will join the existing Watson Farley office in Singapore, which was acquired from UK firm Sinclair Roche & Temperley in September 1998.
  • UK firm Freshfields has announced further expansion of its Amsterdam office with the hiring of Winfred Knibbeler, a leading competition lawyer. Knibbeler will joins as partner from Dutch firm Nauta Dutilh.
  • Richard Parolai and John Woodhall of Clifford Chance, advisers to Nomura International, explain how an old French legal device was used in the first champagne securitization, which closed in late March
  • Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH) is to acquire Patagon.com, an Internet brokerage company, in a deal valued at $500 million. The online Miami company will increase BSCH's reach into Latin America, where Patagon.com has websites in all the major Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.
  • Simmons & Simmons has been used as adviser on two of Hong Kong's largest recent deals, underlining its status in the market. In the first, the UK firm advised Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) on its acquisition of Cable & Wireless HKT. The successful bid is one the largest takeovers in Asia with a value of $36 billion. Cable & Wireless owns a 54% stake in HKT. The merger will make PCCW the third largest company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
  • The Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced last month that it intends to buy Colonial Limited for $5.7 billion. The combined group will be among Australia's market leaders for lending deposits and asset management. It will also become the country's third largest issuer of new life insurance premiums.
  • US law firm Shearman & Sterling has hired a non-lawyer, Clinton Kendrick, to its executive board. The firm calls Kendrick "an international financial services executive and entrepreneur". He joins the firm from Matrix Global Investments, where he was CEO. The other members of the four-man board are: Stephen Volk, senior partner; Whitney Pidot, managing partner; and David Heleniak, European coordinator.