IFLR is part of Legal Benchmarking Limited, 1-2 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8ND

Copyright © Legal Benchmarking Limited and its affiliated companies 2025

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement

Search results for

There are 25,729 results that match your search.25,729 results
  • By Matthew Wong, CMS Cameron McKenna, Hong Kong
  • US firm Morrison & Foerster has recruited Stephen Toronto as new managing partner in its Beijing office. He becomes a member of the corporate group and also expand the firm's technology and finance practice.
  • In the International Bond Survey (IFLR March 2000 pp10-13) IFLR incorrectly attributed the lead manager role on the $950 million Barclays Bank Gracechurch Card Funding securitization to Allen & Overy.
  • Amendment to promote securitization
  • UK firm Freshfields has announced further expansion of its Amsterdam office with the hiring of Winfred Knibbeler, a leading competition lawyer. Knibbeler will joins as partner from Dutch firm Nauta Dutilh.
  • Watson Farley & Williams announced on March 20 that it has acquired an entire Singapore team from French firm Klein Goddard. The six partners, one consultant, 15 fee-earners and two trainees will join the existing Watson Farley office in Singapore, which was acquired from UK firm Sinclair Roche & Temperley in September 1998.
  • Richard Parolai and John Woodhall of Clifford Chance, advisers to Nomura International, explain how an old French legal device was used in the first champagne securitization, which closed in late March
  • Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH) is to acquire Patagon.com, an Internet brokerage company, in a deal valued at $500 million. The online Miami company will increase BSCH's reach into Latin America, where Patagon.com has websites in all the major Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.
  • Fenwick & West and Davis Polk & Wardwell are advising on the largest merger involving a Silicon Valley company. The deal is VeriSign's acquisition of Network Solutions and is valued at $21 billion. The agreement was announced on March 7 and is also the second largest involving Internet companies.
  • The Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced last month that it intends to buy Colonial Limited for $5.7 billion. The combined group will be among Australia's market leaders for lending deposits and asset management. It will also become the country's third largest issuer of new life insurance premiums.