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Jonathan Inman, head of project finance at Linklaters in Tokyo, is leaving the firm's Japanese office in June. He will resume his work in the London office at the end of August, advising energy clients such as Enron, following the end of his secondment.

UK firm Lovells has boosted its corporate and finance practices in London, Frankfurt and Paris by poaching five partners from the European offices of rival US and UK firms.

BBLP Beiten Burkhardt Mittl & Wegener was hit in early May by the defection of its entire Frankfurt mergers and acquisitions (M&A) team and all but one of its five partners in the city to Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Led by the managing partner of the firm's Frankfurt office, Gerhard Schmidt, partners Heiner Drüke, Stephan Grauke and Uwe Hartmann are to move to the local office of the US firm leaving just one partner, the public notary Thilo Krause-Palfner, to hold the fort for BBLP in the city.

Mexico's congress amended a securities bill increasing in May, minority rights for shareholders and increasing disclosure levels, which it hopes will spur the growth of the country's capital markets.

UK lawyers have reacted angrily to the German government's attempt to frustrate the agreement of a European takeover code. The 12-year long negotiations to establish a pan-European code were thrown into disarray at the end of May when German government officials bowed to domestic pressure and withdrew their support for the draft European directive. European member states now have until the end of this month, when the conciliation period over the takeover code ends, to agree a compromise or the draft directive will collapse and with it any hope of agreeing a European code.

Shearman & Sterling has acted for Société Générale (Soc Gen) on its deal to buy a 70% stake in US fund manager TCW, structuring an unusual five-year purchase plan for the French bank rather than a typical one-off acquisition.

James Walker and Tongeun Kim of Clifford Chance, Hong Kong analyze Prudential Financial’s two-stage strategic investment of up to $500 million in Korea’s CJ Investment Trust and Securities

The downturn has made life harder for everyone in California’s technology sector, but as they showed after the Asian financial crisis, lawyers are able to adapt by meeting new needs and new clients. Tom Nicholson reports from California on how firms are surviving

UBS has raided Homburger Rechtsanwälte in Zurich to hire a new group general counsel for the Swiss bank.

Political chaos in the Philippines has left firms struggling for deals and finding project finance and restructuring still the best bets. Nick Ferguson reports