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  • As the argument for embracing a loose alliance of pan-European law firms subsides, Austrian firms seek to strengthen their international ties with a view to a possible merger. Stephen Mulrenan reports
  • Garrigues & Andersen, has appointed Jose Maria Alonzo and Miguel Gordillo as joint managing partners. The directors of Garrigues voted unanimously to maintain the joint-management system that was introduced three years ago when the Spanish firm merged with the big five's Arthur Andersen. They replace Daniel Garcia-Pita and Alberto Terol. Antonio Garrigues will remain as president.
  • German firm Haarmann Hemmelrath has added to the recent opening of offices in London and Brussels by moving into Moscow. The new office complements to the firm's existing eastern European network which includes Prague, Warsaw, Bucharest and Budapest.
  • Clifford Chance has boosted its international securitization practice by attracting one of Lovells' leading capital markets partners, Peter Voisey. The loss will be a blow to Lovells and gives Clifford Chance a total of eight partners in its stand-alone group.
  • Five Canadian law firms have merged to create the country's second largest firm, Borden Ladner Gervais, with nearly 600 lawyers. The new entity brings together members from each of Canada's important financial centres. Borden & Elliot, the largest, is based in Toronto, McMaster Gervais in Montreal, Scott & Aylen in Ottowa, Ladner Downs in Vancouver and Howard, Mackie in Calgary. The new firm came into existence on March 1.
  • The regional partnerships of Australia's Freehill Hollingdale & Page voted at the start of March to adopt a single national partnership. The new arrangement will become effective as of July 1 of this year.
  • Securitization techniques are being adopted in increasingly unusual ways. Richard Henderson of Watson, Farley & Williams, London, summarizes the available structures for ensuring off balance sheet financing for shipbuilders
  • Securitization and debt repackaging are growth areas in offshore financial centres. Ian Ashman of Walkers, George Town, discusses the uses and developments of Cayman Islands special purpose vehicles in these structured finance transactions
  • Managing risk through the use of commercial insurance in international projects can be confusing. Noam Ayali of Chadbourne & Parke, Washington DC, explains what lies behind the jargon and how to successfully incorporate insurance into a lender’s security package
  • Share buy-backs allowed in Sweden