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  • Californian firm Morrison & Foerster has poached technology specialist Steven Toronto from Coudert's Beijing office. Toronto will act as managing partner for Morrison's own Beijing office.
  • Debevoise & Plimpton is the latest US firm to gain at the expense of the SEC. Kenneth Berman, associate director of the SEC's Investment Management division, will join Debevoise's Washington practice as partner in August after 12 years with the commission.
  • The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has listed on its own exchange with the help of Allen & Overy. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) was created last year by the merger of the stock exchange, the futures exchange and their associated clearing houses.
  • Argentina's new money laundering act
  • Baker & McKenzie is to become the first large foreign firm to open in Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city. The firm's fifth office in the country and 61st world-wide will have five lawyers. Edmundo Elias-Fernandez will take charge, working closely with the firm's 120 local lawyers.
  • US firms Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae have hired partners to expand their public finance and banking practices respectively.
  • US lawyers have voted overwhelmingly against plans to allow lawyers to join forces with other professionals, striking a blow against the ambitions of accountancy firms as they try to build global legal networks
  • Judith Lawless of McCann FitzGerald, Dublin, looks at the new rules governing netting and credit derivatives in Ireland
  • So far no top firm has followed Clifford Chance’s January 1 lead and completed a transatlantic merger. But as non-US firms in New York rapidly seek to build their US practices, behind the scenes negotiations are taking place at a frenzied pace. Tom Nicholson reports
  • Telecom Italia has sold off an 81% stake in its software subsidiary, Italtel, to an investor group led by internet group Cisco Systems and the US private investment group Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R). The cost is put at $760 million.