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  • Linklaters takes lead as firms build for the future
    UK firm Linklaters & Paines overtakes US rival Davis Polk & Wardwell to head this year’s ranking of the leading advisers on international equity issues. But other firms are catching up. Richard Forster and Robert Dwyer report
    September 30 1997
  • Largest international ship finance transaction
    The US$944 million financing package for Osprey Maritime Limited of Singapore to purchase Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corporation is the largest non-government ship finance transaction. It is also the largest US dollar syndicated loan provided by Singapore banks.
    September 30 1997
  • Bengang Steel Plates B share listing
    Chinese company Bengang Steel Plates was floated by an international placing of B shares on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
    September 30 1997
  • Biggest City of London development of the year
    The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) has bought a long leasehold interest in part of the 13-acre Spitalfields site, in London, to build a new trading building.
    September 30 1997
  • First major UK PFI deal in the health sector
    A consortium led by Tarmac has won a contract to design and construct a general NHS hospital. The contract, which includes the operation of the hospital's non-clinical services for at least 25 years, is worth £143 million (US$232 million). The deal is the first major private finance initiative (PFI) project in the British health sector.
    September 30 1997
  • DuPont buys ICI divisions
    US chemicals group DuPont is paying £1.8 billion (US$3 billion) for the titanium dioxide and polyester businesses of the UK's ICI. The deal is part of ICI's programme to fund its £4.9 billion acquisition of Unilever's speciality chemicals businesses.
    September 30 1997
  • Privatization of Svyazinvest
    A consortium of firms, including Soros funds, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Renaissance Capital, Uneximbank and Morgan Stanley Asset Management successfully bid US$1.875 billion for a 25% stake in Svyazinvest, the Russian telecoms holding company.
    September 30 1997
  • Metropolitan Life Insurance acquires Security First
    New York mutual life insurer Metropolitan Life Insurance has acquired Californian-based Security First Group from London Insurance Group. The deal is worth US$377 million.
    September 30 1997
  • Squire Sanders opens in Madrid
    Cleveland firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey has opened an office in Madrid. The office will be headed by Juan Picón, formerly at Clifford Chance, Madrid. It opened on September 1 and will be staffed by six lawyers.
    September 30 1997
  • Italy to reform capital gains tax regime
    Reforms to the Italian capital gains tax system will have significant implications for the capital markets and the repo and securities lending markets. By Susanna Beltramo and Marina Savastano of Studio Legale Beltramo, Rome
    September 30 1997
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