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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Indonesia's Law 42 enables security interests to be registered in movable goods. Robert Hornick of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, New York, reviews the new legislation and assesses its attempts to provide better security for creditors
  • Regulation of the European securities market was top of the agenda at the recent Capital Markets Forum Euro Seminar in Frankfurt. Some speakers chose to play it safe, but the European Central Bank's general counsel took the opportunity to lay his cards on the table. Rufus Jones reports.
  • Gilles Thieffry of Norton Rose, London, argues that, although technological change in settlements is raising new problems for issuers and regulators, traditional legal issues still hold true
  • Ministerial inquiry into the electricity industry
  • EU adopts directive on e-commerce