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  • White & Case's Frankfurt office has lost two partners to Lovells Boesebeck Droste. Oliver Kessler is a securities partner and Thomas Schrell a corporate partner. Both have had short tenures at White & Case, Kessler having arrived in June 1999 from Wessing Berenberg-Gossler, and Schrell having joined from then-Freshfields Deringer in late 1999.
  • While Clifford Chance has suffered a setback, Baker & McKenzie has finally won its own joint law venture licence (JVL). The firm's original application needed to be resubmitted thanks to its dual-partnership system with local entity Wong & Leow which ran foul of the JVL terms.
  • The Human Rights Act is brought into forceLandwell, London
  • The new Argentine law on financial leasingAllende & Brea, Buenos Aires
  • FBC accepts innovative Tier 1 capital instrumentsWenger Vieli Belser
  • Employee stock option plansWierzbowski & Szubielska, Warsaw
  • Creeping-in regulationsCMS Strommer Reich-Rohrwig, Karasek Hainz, Vienna
  • US Steel, the largest steel-maker in the US, has bought the Slovakian steel group Vychodoslovenske Zeleziarne (VSZ) for $475 million. The deal represents the second-largest acquisition in Slovakia's history.
  • Orange, the mobile telephone company, is set to launch one of the world's largest initial public offerings (IPO) early next year. If it succeeds it will be with the help of Freshfields and Slaughter and May.
  • US firm Baker & McKenzie worked hard to overcome local insolvency laws as adviser to the lead arrangers on a recent $410 million project financing in Oman. The financing will be used to build around 1,000 kilometres of gas pipelines.