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  • More than a year has passed since the inception of Singapore’s seven legal joint ventures – the city state’s first step towards being part of the global legal profession. With one JV down and the others facing the challenges of integration, Nick Ferguson reports from Singapore on the progress made and lessons learned
  • With the storm clouds of recession gathering, and teams being slashed back home, US firms might be expected to be retreating into fortress Wall Street to keep out of the rain. Instead, many are counting on a European recovery to balance any losses in the US, and are using London as their base camp. Tom Williams reports
  • US firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is the latest firm to move into Germany, after it confirmed last month that it was the mystery firm hiring the four partners that resigned from BBLP Beiten, Burkhardt Mittl & Wegener in July. At the same time, accountancy firm KPMG has denied reports that its local legal arm is to merge with the beleaguered German firm.
  • Sullivan & Cromwell has moved one of its senior partners to Frankfurt in a bid to strengthen its financial institutions practice in Europe and expand its local team.
  • O'Melveny & Myers is recruiting three lawyers to bolster the US firm's presence in Hong Kong this autumn.
  • Leading Spanish firm Cuatrecasas is planning to open branches across Europe and in Latin America under its new management team.
  • The Indian government has tabled the country's new Competition Bill in parliament.
  • Fixed or floating? When examining a charge over a company’s uncollected book debts it is sometimes hard to say, but in June the UK Privy Council gave a new and helpful opinion in Brumark. Justin Bickle of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, London, examines the case and its implications
  • Alain Gauvin of Coudert Brothers, Paris, reviews the Peregrine/Robinson ruling and argues that market quotations are not sufficient when settling payments in such cases