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Timothy Langenkamp, Sidley Austin Trey Monsour, K&L Gates George Davis, O’Melveny & Myers Even by the standards of Houston's breakneck-paced, rough-and-tumble legal market, this spring has shaped up to be a busy one. As April moved into May, K&L GATES announced that it had lured Anthony Newton from Haynes and Boone to its office in Houston, where Newton will apply his knowledge of M&A, refinancings, private equity deals, and tax matters on behalf of oil and gas drillers and other corporate clients. Newton's hire came just days after K&L GATES announced the addition of Bruce Blefeld from Jackson Walker and Trey Monsour from Haynes and Boone as partners in its antitrust and restructuring practices respectively. PAUL HASTINGS hired corporate and securities lawyer Gislar Donnenberg as a partner in its Houston bureau. Donnenberg possesses special expertise in master limited partnerships (MLPs), a form of publicly traded partnership enjoying a surge of interest from both retail and institutional investors.

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Hans Jürgen Meyer-Lindemann, Dechert The most high profile move in London last month was the capture by BAKER & McKENZIE of corporate partner Don Guiney from Freshfields. Guiney had spent the last 16 years at the UK firm and it has been suggested that Baker & McKenzie has made the hire in anticipation of a rise in work in the equity capital markets.

Lim Sin Teck, Stamford In Hong Kong, ROPES & GRAY hired Fried Frank's Victoria Lloyd in a push to strengthen its capital markets and M&A team. In Singapore, STAMFORD added two partners to its corporate practice – Lim Sin Teck from White & Case and Daniel Yong from Norton Rose. Former DLA Piper Singapore head Martin David joined INCE & CO to lead its Asia energy practice, while SIDLEY AUSTIN gained former Tokyo-based M&A partner, Gregory Salathé, from Morgan Lewis & Bockius.

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Asian bank resolution regimes that force a certain amount of capital to be held in domestic subsidiaries are misguided, a survey has indicated.

In an IFLR video exclusive, the Bank of England’s Andy Haldane outlines the unintended consequences of zero interest rates

In an IFLR video exclusive, the Bank of England’s Andy Haldane on why leverage ratios must form part of quest to simplify bank solvency metrics

Differences between US and European finance documentation come to the fore in transatlantic deals. Here are the key distinctions on voting matters

Sanctions are an increasingly important aspect of financial institutions' know-your-client (KYC) measures. But keeping up with ever-changing regulations is proving a challenge