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Dragsted Schlüter Helmer Nielsen, the largest law firm in Denmark, has announced that it is merging with fellow Danish firm Aros Advokater. The combined firm will have more than 160 lawyers, including 55 partners. The new firm will be called Dragsted Schlüter Aros Law Firm

The London office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges this month finished working with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on the structuring of the Eurocredit collateralized debt obligation. The offering, worth euro416.5 million ($439.7 million) is the first wholly European take on a US-originated financing. Lead partner Erica Handling explains the deal

UK law firms Wilde Sapte and Denton Hall announced on October 12 that the partnerships of both firms had voted to combine the two firms. The merger will create a new firm with around 1,500 staff. It will be the seventh largest in the UK, with just under 500 lawyers in the jurisdiction. The merged entity will be called Denton Wilde Sapte.

John A Tessensohn and Shusaku Yamamoto of Shusako Yamamoto Patent Law Office, Kobe, examine the patenting of computerized business methods in Japan

In early October at the International Bar Association meeting in Barcelona, Hannes Schneider of German firm Hengeler Müller Weitzel Wirtz outlined the strategy he called the integrated team concept. Schneider defines the strategy, which unites Hengeler, US firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and the UK's Slaughter and May, as a direct alternative to the alliances and cross-border mergers between law firms. This is the first time that Hengeler has taken the opportunity to explain the strategy in detail and to market it to such a wide audience. Although the existence of a special relationship has been known for some time, the details can now be revealed.

Neil Mirchandani, Lovell White Durrant, London

Clifford Chance, Cameron McKenna, Dorsey & Whitney, Latham & Watkins, White & Case and Linklaters are the top six law firms for overall growth in the world, according to statistics in this year's IFLR 1000 Directory

According to a May 1998 Ernst & Young survey, 87% of respondents thought the incidence of fraud would increase over the next five years, yet fewer than half had taken the necessary cost-effective steps to protect themselves.

When the SAS was introduced into French corporate law in 1994 it had one major restriciton

The SEC's rules have been troubling high-tech start-ups.