DEALS OF THE WEEK 3.08.2000

Most mobile deal: Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Allen & Overy acted for global mobile communications firms NTT DoCoMo, Hutchison and KPN respectively on their 'strategic co-operation agreement', which will allow them bid jointly for third generation mobile licenses in the UK, Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Germany.

Most open deal: BT's in-house legal team teamed up with Bird & Bird to negotiate BT's new joint venture with BSkyB - e-commerce platform, Open.

Herbert Smith and in-house counsel advised BSkyB.

BT is taking a 19.9% stake in Open and BSkyB 80.1%, for part of which it is acquiring shareholdings from HSBC, advised in-house and by Allen & Overy, and Matsushita, advised by Bristows.

Most ornithological deal: Berwin Leighton advised the Ministry of Defence on the 1.1 million sale of Rainham Marshes on the Thames to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, advised by Hewitson Becke & Shaw.

The 900-acre site is noted for wading birds and is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Holy deal, Batman: Wragge & Co advised on the 51 million management buy-out of Quantel, the special effects company involved in Batman, Walking with Dinosaurs and ET in BT's television advertisements.

Macfarlanes advised the vendor, Carlton Communications.

Eversheds advised funders Lloyds TSB.

Comfiest deal: Walker Morris advised the Homestyle Group in its 136 million offer for Harveys Furnishing, advised by Travers Smith Braithwaite.

Most polyglot deal: Hardwick Stallards represented Guinness Flight, Pro Ven and Quester Venture Capital Trusts on their 2.75 million investment in Linguaphone Group, advised by Memery Crystal.

Most gaseous deal: Baker & McKenzie acted for the Industrial Bank of Japan and ABN AMRO Bank in setting up a US$125 million borrowing base facility for Marubeni Oil & Gas (UK), advised by Allen & Overy and Shepherd Tapp.

Marubeni is to use the facility to buy North Sea oil and gas assets in its first UK venture.