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  • Credit Suisse First Boston and ING Barings turned to Davis Polk and Wardwell in connection with a rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $200 million in shares by Jomed NV. The shares are being offered publicly in Switzerland. Holland-based Jomed is a European medical technology company that specializes in the development and manufacture of stents for cardiology.
  • S J Berwin has advised The British Land Company in relation to its £357 million ($516 million) joint venture with West LB, Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank (WIB) and Provinzial-Feuerversicherungsanstalt Der Rheinprovinz-Versicherung Der Sparkassen (PFR). British Land has a 50% interest in the joint venture, contributing four properties in London. The joint venture was funded by a £265 million loan from West LB and equity contributions by the joint ventures.
  • Ashurst Morris Crisp has advised AMVESCAP Plc on its cash offer for Perpetual Plc. The deal is valued at £1.05 billion ($1.5 billion), with two shares and £10 cash given for each Perpetual share.
  • Linklaters & Alliance advised RWE AG on its recommended cash offer for Thames Water plc. This is the first acquisition in the UK by the German utility group and is valued at £4.3 billion ($6.2 billion).
  • Ashurst Morris Crisp has acted for the shareholders of Taylor Barnard Holdings Limited on the sale of the issued share capital of the company to TNT Post Group. The deal was valued at Euro147 million ($123.3 million).
  • International information and communications technology group, GN Great Nordic, looks set to improve its position in the optical communications test equipment market following the $1.05 billion purchase of Photonetics, a French manufacturer of fibre-optic networking equipment. Photonetics will become part of GN Nettest, one of three hi-tech divisions within Great Nordic.
  • Eversheds has represented HSBC Private Equity on its purchase of the plumbing division of Caradon plc for £440 million ($636 million). Black Knight, the new company controlled by HSBC Private Equity, now owns one of the leading plumbing businesses in the UK. Last year the business had a turnover of £338 million and a profit of £41.5 million The business includes overseas operations in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Poland and Turkey.
  • A group of 39 US states has drafted a series of proposals in the Streamlined Sales Tax Project ? the first serious attempt for decades to simplify the US sales tax system.
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges has represented Hanson Plc in the $750 million offering of its 7.875% notes due in 2010. The Securities and Exchange Commission registered bonds were listed on the London Stock Exchange.
  • The US Internal Revenue Service has issued a series of regulations which are of key importance for foreign trust planning. Victoria Dalmas, Michelle Graham, Rahul Ranadive and Monica Robles of Baker & McKenzie report on the potential changes