Deals of the week - 26.09.2002

Most ab-fab deal: Norton Rose is advising retailer and restaurateur Harvey Nichols on the sale of the remaining 49.9% of its shares to Broad Gain for 137.5 million.

Macfarlanes advised Broad Gain, which already owned 50.1% of Harvey Nichols shares.

Best-dressed deal: City giant Allen & Overy is representing specially-formed company Taveta on the 850 million public take-over of UK retailer Arcadia Group.

Clifford Chance is advising Arcadia, whose portfolio includes Dorothy Perkins, Top Shop, Top Man and Miss Selfridge.

Most caring deal: DLA represented Barclays Leveraged Finance on its provision of 19 million senior and working capital debt funding which part-financed the 57 million management buyout of Paper-Pak - manufacturer and supplier of products for the adult and elderly care industry.

Private equity funding for the buyer was provided by 3i, advised by Macfarlanes.

Slaughter & May represented Paper-Pak.

Most Polish deal: White & Case advised the State Treasury of the Republic of Poland on the 257 million takedown of debt securities off the shelf.

US firm Cravath Swaine & Moore acted for underwriters JP Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney.

Best read deal: Bristol-based TLT Solicitors has acted for academic bookseller Blackwell on the sale of four of its stores for an undisclosed sum.

The shops, two at the University of Sunderland and the University of East London, have been sold to John Smith & Son, represented by Bournemouth-based Rawlins Davy.

Most right-on deal: Slaughter & May is advising financial services company Legal & General on the English law aspects of a 786 million rights issue.

Linklaters is acting for underwriters UBS Warburg and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

Davis Polk & Wardwell is dealing with the US law aspects of the deal.

Most drug-induced deal: The London office of US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges advised a syndicate of investors on a 29.5 million private equity investment in drug developer KuDOS Pharmaceuticals, represented by London firm Arnold & Porter.

Most high-tech deal: International firm Reed Smith acted for IT company SunGard on its acquisition of data services provider Monis Management, for an undisclosed sum.

Monis was advised by Berwin Leighton Paisner.