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  • Lovells in London is advising Baltimore Technologies Plc on the £702 million ($1.02 billion) acquisition of Content Technologies and a proposed placing of ordinary shares. Baltimore is a specialist provider of information security solutions for use in e-commerce transaction and computer networks. Content Technologies develops and sells software that provides policy-based security for emails and helps manage email content. The acquisition is conditional on shareholder approval.
  • Cautious optimism for foreign investors in Russia follows radical efforts by the government to level the playing field for business. In the second of two articles, Robert Fort of Deloitte & Touche, Moscow reports on Russia’s most recent changes
  • In the first of two articles, Marnin Michaels, David Balaban, Peter Connors, Philip Marcovici, and Thomas O’Donnell of Baker & McKenzie review the stringent requirements of the new qualified intermediary regime in the US and suggest ways to address them
  • EU member states offer a rich investment environment for US multinationals. But, together with lucrative rewards, come the multiple layers of EU taxes, which require careful, focused planning. By Rolf Eggert and Robert van Brederode, KPMG’s Tax Centers of Excellence
  • Linklaters & Alliance has advised National Power on the demerger of its UK business. The transaction is valued at £5.53 billion ($8 billion). The US business will be known as Innogy while National Power will be renamed International Power. Partners Mike Hardwick of the London office and Bob Thornton of the New York office led the Linklaters & Alliance tax team. Partners Charles Hellier and Nik Mehta of the London office, and Stephen Land of the New York office assisted.
  • Korea Asset Management Corporation (KAMCO) is being advised by McDermott, Will & Emery on its $5 billion debt restructuring.
  • UK mortgage lender Abbey National is to buy insurance firm Scottish Provident for £1.8 billion ($2.6 billion).
  • The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has recently issued a press release stating that the state budget for 2001 will propose the introduction of a tax on dividends. The details of the proposed new legislation are yet to be presented, and it is still unclear if any new legislation will be passed by the Norwegian Parliament. The state budget will be presented on October 4 2000.
  • This year’s IFA Congress, held at Munich’s Kulturzentrum am Gasteig from September 3 to 8, drew 1,500 professionals. But despite the international flavour in terms of both attendees and subject matter, did it really succeed in dishing up what delegates were looking for?
  • US technology firm, Hewlett-Packard, is in talks to buy the consultancy division of big five accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. The discussions value PwC's consultancy division at around $18 billion.