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  • Three UK law firms have completed the rehabilitation of a bank in eastern Europe. Simmons & Simmons, Clifford Chance and Freshfields have all worked on the successful rehabilitation of Latvian bank Rigas Komercbanka, which went into administration in February of this year. The bank reopened for business on October 26 and is now known as First Commercial Bank of Latvia.
  • The EU’s Finality Directive is designed to provide greater legal certainty following the introduction of the euro. Richard Potok of Potok & Co, London, looks at the progress of the implementation of Article 9(2) of the Directive throughout the Union.
  • Clifford Chance, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Linklaters have all advised on the largest securitization of UK credit cards. The transaction is valued at $1 billion backed by receivables from UK consumer credit and charge cards. Barclays Bank, including Barclaycard, was the originator, with Barclays Capital as seller of the bonds and lead manager.
  • Following reports of discontent at the decision to merge with Clifford Chance, the Paris office of Rogers & Wells has agreed to become the first overseas office for New York's Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.
  • Structuring management buy-outs
  • Two of Spain's largest banks have announced a stock swap merger creating the second largest bank in the eurozone with a market value of euro 38 billion ($41 billion).
  • Switzerland's lawyers have been immune to the invasions seen in other European jurisdictions.
  • 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
  • Neil Mirchandani, Lovell White Durrant, London
  • 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.