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RWE chooses Cravath for $7.6 billion US deal

Baker Botts has advised Dominion on the $2.3 billion cash, stock and assumed debt acquisition of Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas.

Linklaters advised Guoco Group on a general offer to repurchase 10% to 25% of its share capital by way of a modified Dutch auction. The deal was announced on September 10 and is scheduled for completion by the end of November. The value could be as much as HK$5.46 billion ($700 million). The deal is the largest general offer to repurchase shares (in terms of value) ever announced in Hong Kong. It followed the structure that Linklaters had earlier established for the HK$4.12 billion share repurchase by The Hong Kong and China Gas Company in June 2001.

Davis Polk & Wardwell has advised Deutsche Telekom on US aspects of the company's sale of six regional cable television companies in Germany to Liberty Media Corporation. The transaction is valued at approximately euro 5.5 billion ($4.9 billion).

UK lawyers have reacted angrily to the German government's attempt to frustrate the agreement of a European takeover code. The 12-year long negotiations to establish a pan-European code were thrown into disarray at the end of May when German government officials bowed to domestic pressure and withdrew their support for the draft European directive. European member states now have until the end of this month, when the conciliation period over the takeover code ends, to agree a compromise or the draft directive will collapse and with it any hope of agreeing a European code.

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has represented the lenders on the $262.5 million financing of the Salalah privatization and power project in Oman.

Sidley Austin Brown & Wood has closed two mortgage-backed deals totalling $3.4 billion. The US firm's London office advised Morgan Stanley & Co International (MSIL) on three UK and Irish deals and is on the brink of closing another deal for UK bank Northern Rock.

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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Clifford Chance have secured euro 4.5 billion ($4.1 billion) worth of funding for two deals in one of the biggest business acquisitions in Germany.

Norton Rose has won the mandate to advise the government of Cyprus on changes to the country's electricity legislation in line with EU Directives.