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Attorney at law; partner Saxinger Chalupsky Weber & Partners, Vienna;

By Albert Sokol, Richard Small, Stephen Meredith, Jonathan Cole, Edwards & Angell

Mr de Souza is a partner in the firm's São Paulo office and member of the banking and finance and M&A practice group. Mr de Souza's practice is focused principally on corporate finance, project finance, cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganizations. Mr de Souza received his BA degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1996), attended a post-graduate specialization course in commercial law at the Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil (1998), and received his LLM degree in German corporate law from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany (1999). Mr de Souza is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association at Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

A better environment for start-ups and venture capital By Hajime Tanahashi of Mori Sogo, Tokyo

Tax-free foreign venture capital investment By Berjis Desai of Udwadia, Udeshi & Berjis, Mumbai

By Geoffrey Kenyon and Martin Carmichael of Goodwin Procter LLP

"I am much happier that we now have a single regulator instead of what we had before which was frankly pretty ineffective"

Mori Sogo and Hamada & Matsumoto will merge in 2003 to create one of Japan's largest law firms.

"This alliance is defined more by what it is not" - Allard Metzelaar, Stibbe Dutch firm Stibbe insisted it would maintain its independence and position in the market after announcing in December that it is to join the Anglo-German alliance between Herbert Smith and Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch.

"The feeling is that the Takeover Panel has lost its edge and become a little limp" - Chris Bright, Shearman & Sterling The Financial Services Authority (FSA), has indicated that it will not use its sweeping new powers to interfere with the role of the UK's Panel on Takeover and Mergers.