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  • A choice collection of firms from New York, London and Beijing advised on China Unicom's $4.9 billion Hong Kong and New York IPO. It is the biggest ever Asian IPO outside of Japan.
  • Tax partner Joe Doloboff has left Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom to become the co-director of Ernst & Young's US West Coast tax practice. Doloboff is the first partner that Skadden Arps has lost to a big five firm.
  • Lovells Frankfurt hires asset finance partner
  • Partners at White & Case and German firm Feddersen Laule Ewerwahn Scherzberg Finkelnburg Clemm voted last month to merge the two firms with effect from July 1. The move is the first significant merger between a US and German firm and is the largest strategic move into Germany from the US since Shearman & Sterling arrived in the early nineties.
  • Shearman & Sterling and Allen & Overy have shocked the German legal community by taking eight partners each from the German firm Schilling Zutt & Anschütz. The 16 Schilling departures represent nearly half of the 35-lawyer firm, and come after Schilling failed to reach merger agreements with both firms earlier this year.
  • Denton Wilde Sapte has merged with its French associate firm, Salès Vincent & Associés. The new firm, to be called Denton Salès Vincent & Thomas, has retained five partners and their teams from Salès Vincent, as well as bringing in four other partners from outside the association.
  • Bill Rubin, one of the chief counsels at the EBRD, is to return to private practice after seven years at the bank. The move is an important boost for Weil Gotshal's London office, which has suffered a number of partner losses over recent months.
  • Exchangeable shares level the playing field for foreign bidders
  • Law firms are convinced that WTO accession will change the way they do business in China. But, as Nick Ferguson reports, some firms have already found ways of making the most of the opportunities available
  • By Adam Wenner and Kathleen C Lake of Vinson & Elkins LLP, Washington DC and Houston