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Arthur Levitt, the longest serving chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC, is to step down in mid-February. While his term of office does not officially expire until 2003, it is common for holders of the post to leave government when a new president takes over.

Davis Polk advises on $1.3 billion stock offering

With the economy in a healthy state, the Irish government is looking to develop the country’s infrastructure. The expected goldrush of private public partnership schemes will give a new boost to local firms. But the rich pickings are already attracting the attention of big international firms. Sara Ver-Bruggen reports from Dublin

Linklaters and Clifford Chance are advising on the $1.3 billion restructuring of Malaysia's TRI and Celcom, the country's largest cellular phone operator. Linklaters is advising Celcom, the fully-owned operating subsidiary of TRI.

The French construction materials group Lafarge has paid $4.5 billion for UK company Blue Circle, to form the world's largest cement producer.

"We looked at a lot of different people—bigger, smaller—but this is like Goldilocks: the porridge is just right."

Tweny-six lawyers have quit Brazilian firm Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice to set up a new mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and banking boutique. The former Machado Meyer lawyers have set up Souza, Crescon Avedissian, Barrieu e Flesch in São Paulo, and are certain they can fill a niche in Brazil's legal market. Alongside the five former Machado Meyer partners — Cristiane Naomi Kaneko Flesch, Luis Antonio Semeghini de Souza, Marcos Rafael Flesch, Maria Cristina Cescon Avedissian and Roberto Barrieu — the new firm will comprise 21 former Machado Meyer associates, seven trainees and three staff.

Alessandro Varrenti White & Case has become the latest international firm to open up offices in Italy. The US firm has set up shop in Rome and Milan through a merger with Italian firm Varrenti e Associati. The combined firm will advise under the hefty title, Studio Legale White & Case Varrenti e Associati. It will have 20 lawyers and three equity partners. Alessandro Varrenti, name partner of the original Italian entity, becomes a White & Case partner, and is joined by two other partners from White & Case's international network. Ken Lee arrives from the firm's Mexico office, while Anthony Giustini is moving over from Paris.

The Amsterdam office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has tempted over a finance partner from The Netherlands' leading independent firm, Nauta Dutilh.

Simmons & Simmons has become the latest UK firm to add a German office to its European network. The City firm has decided that Kaiser, a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) boutique with seven lawyers, will give it the foothold it needs in the German market.