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  • Merrill Lynch and HSBC have announced that they are forming a joint venture to provide what they call “the first global online banking and investment services company”. The new company will be co-branded ‘Merrill Lynch HSBC’ and its formal name will be announced shortly.
  • In the Philippines, knowing who to talk to can be one of your most important assets, both as a client and as a lawyer. With investors returning and foreign firms still barred, finding a way through the network is as important as ever. By Greg Ford
  • UK firm Simmons & Simmons has recently completed work negotiating a strategic partnership that will implement one of the world’s largest integrated energy projects.
  • In the first acquisition of a Paris-listed bank by a foreign institution, HSBC Holdings is buying Crédit Commercial de France in a deal worth $10.6 billion. Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton is acting as legal adviser to HSBC and local firm Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier for Crédit Commercial.
  • Jonathan Walsh and Will Farrant of Norton Rose, London explain how the new UK regulator, the FSA, will change securitization for building societies as it aims to harmonize the regulations for banks and mutuals
  • Lawyers in Hong Kong and Singapore are relishing renewed investor confidence in Indonesia. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Norton Rose and Herbert Smith are among the first to advise on foreign investments into Indonesia since the downturn.
  • Weil Gotshal to open Frankfurt office
  • Australian firms are keen to get into Singapore. But when Singapore hands out the five joint venture licences it will probably favour UK and US firms.
  • Tony Foster of Freshfields, Vietnam discusses the implications for foreign and domestic lenders of two decrees on security and the problems for clients in reconciling the two regimes
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