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  • After the passing of secondary legislation, the Japanese government is ready to launch its private finance initiative. Mitsuhiro Kamiya of Freshfields, Tokyo looks at the rules and prospects for investors and bankers targeting Japanese PFI
  • Charles M Adelman of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York reviews the long awaited proposals by the US Internal Revenue Service on how financial asset securitization investment trusts will operate
  • Stock exchange to merge with Brussels and Paris exchanges
  • New Zealand’s Kensington Swan is set to join KPMG Legal. KPMG hopes its present New Zealand legal staff will eventually be able to integrate with the 43-partner Kensington Swan, but at the moment New Zealand does not allow multidisciplinary partnerships and so the two groups of lawyers will work separately.
  • Deutsche Bank has lost a senior counsel to one of the law firms that it regularly outsources work to. Wolfgang Gross moved to Hengeler Mueller Weitzel Wirtz in Frankfurt in April and was immediately sent on a three-month secondment to the New York office of US 'best friend' Davis Polk & Wardwell.
  • Effective July 1 2000 Canadian technology law firm, Gowling, Strathy & Henderson will merge with Montreal corporate finance banking law firm Lafleur Brown. The merged firm will include more than 550 lawyers, patent and trademark agents. The merger puts the firm within the top three firms in Canada, rivalling March's Borden Ladner Gervais five firm merger.
  • The Paris office of UK firm Freshfields has welcomed the arrival of one of Europe's leading securities lawyers. Patrick Bonvarlet started at the firm on April 17, leaving behind Dutch/Belgian/French practice Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot & Giroux. At Freshfields, Bonvarlet has teamed up with partners Gavin Darlington and Arnaud Peres, helping to develop the firm's European securities and M&A practice.
  • Baker & McKenzie is acting for a Polish leasing company on its dual equity listing. Europejski Fundusz Leasingowy (EFL) has launched an international and domestic offering of shares and global depositary receipts (GDRs) on the London and Warsaw stock exchanges. Bakers’ role is international transaction and company counsel. The value of the offering, consisting of new issue shares, was $82 million.
  • 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.
  • Allen & Overy is set to offer its clients Japanese legal advice. According to bar rules foreign firms cannot directly offer Japanese advice, but Allen & Overy is setting up a joint venture with a local firm.