Deals of the week 14.06.2001

Most clubbable deal: Field Fisher Waterhouse acted for Zoo Hotels - fronted by 'It girl' Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and entrepreneur Benjamin Fry - in its partial share offer to acquire up to 29% of the issued share capital of the Groucho Club, which was advised by Edwin Coe.Roundest deal: Fladgate Fielder advised two subsidiary companies of Orb Securities on a 72 million loan facility from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Bank to refinance part of its commercial property portfolio.

Denton Wilde Sapte acted for the bank.Most interactive deal: Herbert Smith is acting for BSkyB in the buyout of TV shopping and interactive services company Open from British Telecom.

The deal is expected to be worth between 1.2 and 1.5 billion.

BT's in-house team was led by Andrew Parker and Tim Shaw, with Bird & Bird advising on exchange of contracts.Most testing deal: Pinsent Curtis Biddle acted for US drugs firm Perrigo Company on its first UK deal, the 31 million acquisition of Wrafton Laboratories from McBride, advised by Ashurst Morris Crisp.Most intrusive deal: Olswang acted for Channel Four on a series of agreements with Sky and its subsidiary SSSL - advised in-house - to broadcast interactive services on digital satellite for 'Big Brother' viewers.Most playful deal: Taylor Joynson Garrett acted for Eidos - publisher of the video games 'Tomb Raider' and 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' - on a 51.7 million rights issue.

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein underwrote the rights issue, advised by Linklaters and Alliance.Most genetic deal: Lovells and US firm Cooley Godward acted for genes specialist Sequenom on its $238 million merger with Gemini Genomics, advised by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in the UK and US.Most powerful deal: Norton Rose acted for ANZ Investment Bank in its capacity as beneficiary of the first Asian Development Bank political risk guarantee over the MW450 AES Meghnaghat power project in Bangladesh.

The package is worth 300 million.

Slaughter and May represented the sponsor, the AES Corporation.Paula Rohan