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Slaughter and May will lose its most senior securitization partner this month, as part of a series of wider practice head appointments at the UK firm. Securitization specialist Rupert Beaumont is to retire from the firm at the end of April, leaving Christopher Smith as the most senior partner in the group and coordinator of the capital markets effort at the UK firm.

Paris lawyers have reacted calmly to new rules govering initial public offerings (IPOs) published by the regulator of the Paris Stock Exchange, the Commissions Opérations des Bourses (COB). Responding to growing pressure following the collapse of technology share values and fears that venture capitalists and dot.com founders were able to exploit existing rules at the expense of public investors, the COB last month issued a statement which local lawyers say simply clarifies existing guidelines.

Observers believe that new legislation in Ukraine will help give the country’s banking system progressive, international standards to adhere to. Myron Rabij of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, Kiev, assesses the reforms

PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal has launched a practice to help businesses manage weather-related risk using weather derivatives, claiming the new global service is the first of its kind.

"We know what the weather market wants"

Allen & Overy is advising Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) and Goldman Sachs International on the second largest initial public offering (IPO) in the UK this year. UK firm Herbert Smith is also working on the $1.25 billion London listing of UK recruitment consultant Michael Page International. Allen & Overy is advising CSFB, which is joint lead manager with Goldman Sachs International, as sponsor, global co-ordinator, sole book runner and underwriters on the UK company's IPO. Other banks involved in the offering are Deutsche Bank, Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, HSBC and West LB Panmure.

Ian Garth McGill and Tom Poulton Allen Allen & Helmsley and Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks have agreed to merge. After a 15-year courtship the two firms have finally agreed to formalise its relationship.

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy hopes to attract lawyers suffering from the dot.com downturn to staff its new Palo Alto office.

One of Clifford Chance's most senior asset finance partners has left the UK firm to become a director in the leasing and tax-based finance group of ANZ Investment Bank in London. The departure has forced the UK firm to rejig the lawyers in its asset finance team.

The referral of powers from states to the federal government is a necessary prelude to the enactment of Australia’s corporations legislation. Don Harding, a partner of Freehills in Sydney, explains how the Corporations (Commonwealth Powers) Bill 2001 of New South Wales provides a model for juggling constitutional concerns