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  • UK advertising company Saatchi & Saatchi announced on June 20 that it intends to merge with Publicis, which is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange. The deal values Saatchi & Saatchi at euro 1.96 billion ($1.84 billion). The UK company will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Publicis which, with a combined market capitalization of euro 6.3 billion, the companies say will be the fifth largest advertising company in the world in terms of revenue.
  • Unfair competition - SIC asserts its increased jurisdictional authority in telecoms ruling
  • Unilever has agreed to buy Bestfoods of the US for approximately $20.3 billion in equity and an assumption of $4 billion in debt.
  • Coudert Brothers will complete its withdrawal from Vietnam later this year when it closes its Hanoi office. Last year it closed its Ho Chi Minh office.
  • The US Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel) has warned the US Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan that it must support CompTel's recommended local telecom reforms, ensuring Taiwan conforms to WTO commitments.
  • The Ministry of Justice in China has granted White & Case a licence to open an office in Shanghai. This will be the firm's first office on the Chinese mainland. Until now the firm has operated its China practice from Hong Kong.
  • A choice collection of firms from New York, London and Beijing advised on China Unicom's $4.9 billion Hong Kong and New York IPO. It is the biggest ever Asian IPO outside of Japan.
  • Lovells Frankfurt hires asset finance partner
  • 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.