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  • "The accountants have lost the first round," says Dolph Stuyling de Lange, general secretary of Dutch/Belgian firm Loeff Claeys Verbeke. On February 7 the District Court of Amsterdam upheld the Dutch bar rules banning mergers between accounting and law firms.
  • Spanish firms J & A Garrigues and Arthur Andersen ALT have completed their merger with partners approving the new partnership on January 31 1997. The firm will be known as J & A Garrigues Andersen with Andersen staff relocating to Garrigues' offices as much for symbolic as practical reasons. "We want to differentiate them clearly and move them away from where they were," comments Ramon Lladó, partner from the former J & A Garrigues.
  • • US firm Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has opened an office in Geneva. Jean Russotto, managing partner in the firm's Brussels office, will work out of the office of Swiss firm Cabinet Mayor in Geneva. The new office is to complement the work the firm does in Brussels in financial services, corporate, trade and tax law.
  • Siebe, the UK's largest diversified engineering company, issued US$250 million of global notes under US law. The notes were offered under Rule 144A and Regulation S.
  • International investment bank Morgan Stanley is to merge with US retail financial services firm Dean Witter, Discover. The merger will create the US's biggest securities firm in terms of capital, with an estimated market capitalization of US$20 billion and total assets under management of US$270 billion.
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  • UK construction lawyer Tim Steadman will join Clifford Chance as a partner in March. He moves from Baker & McKenzie's London office where he has been a construction partner for the past five years.
  • Leading international Italian firm Studio Legale Fondato da Francesco Carnelutti has opened an office in Rome. The office will be integrated with the firm's Milan office.
  • UK firm Allen & Overy is continuing the rapid expansion of its Moscow office. This follows the arrival last year of two lawyers from US firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's Moscow office.
  • Canada's Stikeman, Elliott opened an office in Sydney on February 4. Sydney is the firm's 14th office, and the ninth outside Canada. The office will be staffed by Roy Randall, Brian Hansen and Elizabeth Turner.