Deals of the week - 06.02.2003

Best travelled deal: Surrey firm Mundays advised World Travel Management on its acquisition of Leeds United Travel Company.

DLA acted for the vendor, Leeds United Football Club.

Most luxurious deal: City firm Fox Williams acted for the investing majority shareholders and the company on a 'substantial' investment in Harding Brothers, which operates several exclusive duty-free retail outlets on board luxury cruise liners.

West country-based Bevan Ashford advised the minority shareholders.

Best exchanged deal: Herbert Smith advised the London Stock Exchange on its 22 million purchase of financial market software and data services company Proquote, represented by Eversheds.

Most testing deal: Brighton firm DMH acted for the South East Growth Fund on its initial 250,000 investment into Exam on Demand, which provides secure examinations on-line and was advised by Horsham firm Paul Davidson Taylor.

Most fashionable deal: Linklaters advised Graphite Capital Management on its 70 million acquisition of women's fashion retailer Jane Norman, advised by SJ Berwin.

The lenders, Bank of Scotland and Intermediate Capital Group, were advised by DLA.

Best stumped deal: London firm Marriott Harrison advised Brock Travel, owner of The Cricketer magazine, on its merger with Wisden Cricket Monthly, advised by Charles Russell, to create the world's largest cricket magazine publisher, Wisden Cricketer Publishing.

Coldest deal: Newton Abbott firm Woollcombe Beer Watts acted for Ice Express on its sale to frozen goods distributor Sunnyside Distribution for an undisclosed sum.

Bristol firm TLT acted for Sunnyside.

Most regal deal: City firm Norton Rose acted for the Kingdom of Bahrain on its first sovereign bond issue.

Allen & Overy acted for the lead managers, BNP Paribas and Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, on the issue of $500 million five-year fixed-rate international bonds.

Most musical deal: The London office of US firm McDermott Will & Emery acted for MTS, which trades as Tower Records, on the disposal of its flagship London stores in Kensington and Piccadilly to Virgin Retail Group, advised by Denton Wilde Sapte.

It is part of Tower's gradual withdrawal from the UK market.