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  • Spain
  • LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae Moscow
  • 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
  • The London office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges this month finished working with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on the structuring of the Eurocredit collateralized debt obligation. The offering, worth euro416.5 million ($439.7 million) is the first wholly European take on a US-originated financing. Lead partner Erica Handling explains the deal
  • UK law firms Wilde Sapte and Denton Hall announced on October 12 that the partnerships of both firms had voted to combine the two firms. The merger will create a new firm with around 1,500 staff. It will be the seventh largest in the UK, with just under 500 lawyers in the jurisdiction. The merged entity will be called Denton Wilde Sapte.
  • The SEC's rules have been troubling high-tech start-ups.
  • Switzerland
  • Equity specialists suffered a dismal year in the emerging markets as the Russian crisis destroyed what little confidence remained after the Asia downturn