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  • Tom Glocer The newsgroup Reuters has appointed one of its former in-house legal team as the company's new chief executive. Tom Glocer will take over from the present chief executive Peter Job in July 2001.
  • Brobeck Hale & Dorr has at last found the right team to establish a German presence. Eight local technology lawyers will join the firm's Munich office, which opened on January 1.
  • Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has completed its biggest ever expansion, snapping up 61 lawyers from Los Angeles firm Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey. The deal comes not a moment too soon for Troop Steuber, which has been looking for a suitable merger partner for some months.
  • Lovells is the latest UK firm to make a play for the Dutch legal market, announcing a merger with Amsterdam firm Ekelmans Den Hollander. The addition of the Dutch firm, which has 40 lawyers and 13 partners, brings Lovells' European partnership to 233.
  • Lee Suet Fern, former partner at Wong Partnership in Singapore, has opened her own practice. The firm, Stamford, is formed as a limited liability corporation, which is a new legal entity for Singapore law firms introduced under this summer's amendments to the Legal Profession Act.
  • China’s first comprehensive attempt to regulate its telecoms industry represents another firm step towards World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. Xiangmin Xu and Chlorophyll Yip of Clifford Chance, Hong Kong, explain the new framework for operational licensing, interconnection, the setting of telecoms charges and standards of telecoms services
  • ETSA Utilities, the recently privatized entity that acquired South Australia’s electricity distribution network, has led the way in Australia in the use of the public debt markets for non-recourse financing. David Olsson, a partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, discusses the challenges in financing long-term infrastructure leases in the capital markets
  • After 14 years of negotiations, China has reached the final stage of its admission to the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a result China has promised to lift many, but not all, restrictions imposed on foreign investment in its insurance industry. Andreas Lauffs and Andrew Ning of Baker & McKenzie, Hong Kong analyze the scope of China’s concessions
  • The formation of Easdaq in 1996 was the first successful attempt to create a pan-European securities exchange. This month, Rufus Jones talks to Easdaq’s general counsel, Dirk Tirez, about the exchange’s pioneering approach, his use of law firms and his thoughts on the potential for a single European stock exchange