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  • Barilla buys Wasa from Novartis
    Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis is selling its Wasa crispbread unit to Italy’s Barilla Alimentare. The Italian food company is paying Sfr475 million ($315 million) including debt. The deal is part of Novartis’s move to refocus its consumer health division.
    May 31 1999
  • GEC in $4.5 billion acquisition of Fore Systems
    The UK’s General Electric Company (GEC) is buying Fore Systems, a Pittsburgh-based Internet equipment supplier. GEC recently agreed to sell its defence business to British Aerospace and is now concentrating on building up its telecoms and Internet capabilities. This acquisition follows GEC’s purchase of US telecoms company, Reltec.
    May 31 1999
  • Hungary
    Europe-Valuation of non-cash contributions in Hungarian companies
    May 31 1999
  • Local hires the key to success in Hungary
    With the biggest privatizations over, international law firms in Hungary can no longer rely on highly profitable deals which require western legal know-how. As the market matures, the emphasis is on local law expertise. Rob Mannix reports
    May 31 1999
  • Lehman unit to buy Blount International
    The merchant bank unit of Lehman Brothers Holdings is to buy Blount International, a manufacturer of tree-harvesting machinery, for $1.4 billion in cash and assumed debt.
    May 31 1999
  • Sweden’s first junk bond
    US firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett advised Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley on Sweden’s first ever high-yield bond issue.
    May 31 1999
  • Renault and Nissan in $5.4 billion merger
    France’s Renault and Japan’s Nissan are combining to create the world’s fourth largest car maker. Renault is taking a 36.8% stake in Nissan Motor, and a 22.5% stake in Nissan Diesel, the company’s truck division. All funds will have been transferred by the end of May. The new company will produce five million vehicles per year.
    May 31 1999
  • Denton Hall acquires Kazakhstan office
    UK firm Denton Hall has opened an office in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
    May 31 1999
  • Eversheds looks to Bulgaria
    Eversheds’ associated Bulgarian office in the capital Sofia is to have a full time English qualified lawyer based there. Until now the UK firm has been represented in the jurisdiction by local firm Georgiev Todorov & Co, which has 32 lawyers.
    May 31 1999
  • TPSA sale revives Polish market
    The $920 million sale in November of a 15% stake in state telecoms company TPSA doubled the capitalization of the Warsaw exchange overnight and affirmed the new government’s commitment to privatization. Ben Maiden reports as lawyers compete for further deals in banking, airlines, oil and steel
    May 31 1999
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