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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.

It was revealed in December that the Neuer Markt is tightening its rules on initial public offerings in response to collapsing technology stocks. This month Markus Pfüller and Christiane Ehrich of Clifford Chance Pünder, Frankfurt, explain the details of the reforms

New rules for listing on the SWX local capsWenger Vieli Belser

Investment funds in PolandWierbowski & Szubielska Warsaw

Kazakhstan adopts stamp duty on notes and bills of exchangeBaker & McKenzie

Proposed multilateral instrument 72-101Smith Lyons Toronto

The French construction materials group Lafarge has paid $4.5 billion for UK company Blue Circle, to form the world's largest cement producer.

A venture capital travelguide by Gerry Cater, Paul von Hehn and Matthew Huggins of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering

By Andrew Lewis and Shelley Cave of Simpson Grierson, Auckland