Deals of the week

Most hush-hush deal: Ashurst Morris Crisp has advised Integrated Accommodation Services on a private finance initiative project for the design, construction, commissioning and maintenance of new accommodation facilities for Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

The deal was financed principally by the issue of 400 million of fixed-rate bonds by Integrated.

Linklaters advised lenders Financial Security Assurance (UK) and Deutsche Bank, Herbert Smith acted for GCHQ, and Masons acted for building contractor Carillion Construction.Premier deal: Denton Wilde Sapte represented the FA Premier League's project team in the sale of UK and Ireland audio visual rights for football by sealed bid.

BSkyB, which won live rights, and ITV, which won the bid to show the highlights, were represented by in-house teams.

Travers Smith Braithwaite acted for ntl, which secured the pay-per-view rights.Most buoyant deal: CMS Cameron McKenna advised the Alert Communications consortium on a 280 million contract award to design, build and operate a communication service for the Royal Navy.

Olswang acted for consortium member Merlin Communications, which will be the prime contractor on the deal.

Norton Rose acted for the Bank of Scotland and Barclays.

Scottish firm McGrigor Donald acted for the Ministry of Defence.

Most scrambled deal: Slaughter and May and US firm Cravath Swaine & Moore acted for Prudential on its 1.3 billion public offering and secondary offering of 20% of its shares in its on-line bank, Egg.

US firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton advised global co-ordinator Goldman Sachs.Most dot-gone deal: Nabarro Nathanson acted for US-based Internet fashion retailer fashionmall.com in its buy-out ofEnglish and Irish on-line clothes retailers boo.com and boo.com Ireland which recently went into provisional liquidation.

The US company purchased the boo.com brand, trade marks, domain names and other intellectual property rights for an undisclosed sum.

Freshfields acted for boo.com's provisional liquidator, KPMG.