<HTML>In a message dated 2/25/2003 4:36:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, chrisd@russiajournal.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Last week British oil company BP announced that it was buying a 50% stake in the merged TNK-Sidanko oil company for USD 3 billion in cash and USD 3.75 billion in shares. BP management said that the deal with its Russian partners was 'strategic.' </BLOCKQUOTE> Did it say which banks were involved in that deal? Nomi</HTML>