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  • Norton Rose has captured the mandate to advise EasyJet, a leading European low cost flight operator, on its forthcoming initial public offering (IPO). The IPO is set to launch in mid-November. One estimate suggests the deal could raise £200 million ($289 million). Partner Mark Lloyd Williams leading the Norton Rose team with fellow partners Richard Baumann in the US and Chris Randall and Jeremy Edwards in London.
  • The chief litigation counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has left to return to private practice.
  • The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) issued its "Operational Regulatory Approach Discussion Paper" in October. The paper was complied in co-operation with ISDA member firms and argues that regulatory appraisal of operational risk management by financial institutions should include a set of qualitative criteria.
  • Europe's financial watchdogs plan to continue regulating alternative trading systems (ATSs) as they regulate brokerages, rather than classify ATSs as separate exchanges to be governed by stock exchange rules, says a recent report.
  • White & Case's Frankfurt office has lost two partners to Lovells Boesebeck Droste. Oliver Kessler is a securities partner and Thomas Schrell a corporate partner. Both have had short tenures at White & Case, Kessler having arrived in June 1999 from Wessing Berenberg-Gossler, and Schrell having joined from then-Freshfields Deringer in late 1999.
  • While Clifford Chance has suffered a setback, Baker & McKenzie has finally won its own joint law venture licence (JVL). The firm's original application needed to be resubmitted thanks to its dual-partnership system with local entity Wong & Leow which ran foul of the JVL terms.
  • Toronto law firm Miller Thomson has merged with Swinton & Company from Vancouver, which specializes in securities law.
  • US firm Coudert Brothers is planning to merge with Swedish firm Schürmann & Grönberg, its associated Stockholm office, in January 2001. The Stockholm practice was part of German firm Schürmann & Partners and became an affiliate office when its parent merged with Coudert in January this year.
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  • Morrison & Foerster's China practice continues to expand. The firm's west coast credentials are proving so attractive to hi-tech clients with operations in the mainland that MoFo is having to hire new bodies to cover the demand.