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"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.

Korea's securitization market will be one to watch during 2001. Brown & Wood's Hong Kong office recently advised Chase Securities on the arrangement of a novel asset-backed securities issue for Asiana Airlines.

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.

Paul Geradine, the FSA's director of listing The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has endured a stern test of its disclosure policies for biotechnology companies, after controversial UK group Huntingdon Life Sciences avoided closure by securing a last-minute investment package. In a press release on January 17 the FSA announced a new system designed to encourage more biotech companies to list in the UK.

Australia’s financial services reforms will give it one of the most unified and advanced financial services regimes in the world. Karen Den-Toll, director of financial services at Clayton Utz in Sydney, examines how the changes will affect issuers of financial products, and advisers across both the retail and wholesale customer markets

Parts of Asia are ripe for the kind of explosion in leveraged buy-outs seen in the US and Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. Richard Gray of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Hong Kong, examines the legal and structural issues which this potential new market must address

New law on bank mergersHerguner Bilgen & Ozeke Istanbul

No tax exemption for short-term capital gains of banking institutionsBaker & McKenzie Frankfurt