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  • Australia and New Zealand are no longer as isolated as their far-flung locations would suggest, but their lawyers are still struggling to stay in the race for globalization. Nick Ferguson reports from Sydney and Auckland on how being big and being good may not be enough if firms’ strategies are not clear
  • In a second landmark deal last month, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy closed, Brazil's largest ever project financing. The US firm acted as lead lenders counsel on the $2.5 billion financing of the Barracuda and Caratinga oil and gas fields off the Brazilian coast.
  • The supervisory board of Deutsche Börse announced in December that it had agreed to let the exchange go public. The flotation is likely to take place in the first quarter of this year.
  • A bid to harmonize legislation on company takeovers in Europe that has been over a decade in the making may have to be scrapped. Sponsors of the directive fear last minute amendments proposed by the European Parliament will make it impossible to ratify.
  • Tom Glocer The newsgroup Reuters has appointed one of its former in-house legal team as the company's new chief executive. Tom Glocer will take over from the present chief executive Peter Job in July 2001.
  • Lovells is the latest UK firm to make a play for the Dutch legal market, announcing a merger with Amsterdam firm Ekelmans Den Hollander. The addition of the Dutch firm, which has 40 lawyers and 13 partners, brings Lovells' European partnership to 233.
  • Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has completed its biggest ever expansion, snapping up 61 lawyers from Los Angeles firm Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey. The deal comes not a moment too soon for Troop Steuber, which has been looking for a suitable merger partner for some months.
  • Argentina has introduced a law which sweeps away many of the previous restrictions on leasing activities. Javier Errecondo of Bruchou, Fernandez Madero, Lombardo & Mitrani, Buenos Aires, discusses the main points of the new legislation and how they will help promote the leasing market
  • Benedikt Burger of Hölters & Elsing, Frankfurt, examines the legislative framework governing joint ventures in Germany at a time when they are becoming increasingly popular