Instructions of the week - 30.08.2002

Landwell - the UK legal arm of accountants Pricewaterhouse-Coopers - has been appointed to advise on the cross-border insolvency of Aterforsakring AB Luap - the reinsurance arm of Swedish insurers Folksam International.

The firm is to oversee the UK aspects of the insolvency, with its Swedish correspondent firm Hellstrom acting as liquidators and advising on the Scandinavian side.

Willoughby & Partners - the London-based legal arm of intellectual property consultancy Rouse & Co - has secured BT's research and technology business, BTexact Technologies, as a client.

The work will be mostly based in Asia, where BT is currently concentrating on licensing out its technology following China's accession to the World Trade Organisation.

City firm DLA has been appointed to help prepare the Lithuanian health service ahead of the country's application for admission to the European Union in 2004.

Keith Lewin, a consultant in its health and social care practice, will work with the government to compile a programme to combat the 'bribe culture' currently widespread in the republic's healthcare sector.

City firm Denton Wilde Sapte has advised Socit Gnrale in the Commonwealth of Independent States for the first time.

It acted for the bank on a senior loan agreement worth $31 million with Oxus Mining and Amantaytau Goldfields.

The London office of US firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has been chosen by JP Morgan to act on its first sterling commercial mortgage conduit in the UK.

The firm will advise on all aspects of the programme, as well as assisting the bank in ensuring that rating agency requirements are met at every stage.

The London office of US giant Morrison & Foerster is to advise drinks company Campari on the private placement of 112 million debt.

This will be the first time the City office has represented the company, although the US practice has acted for Campari in the past.

US firm Coudert Brothers has been retained by Russian pulp and paper producer, Ilim Pulp Enterprise, to help it defend an oligarchic rival's campaign to seize the company's assets.