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  • Debevoise & Plimpton is the latest US firm to gain at the expense of the SEC. Kenneth Berman, associate director of the SEC's Investment Management division, will join Debevoise's Washington practice as partner in August after 12 years with the commission.
  • Telecom Italia has sold off an 81% stake in its software subsidiary, Italtel, to an investor group led by internet group Cisco Systems and the US private investment group Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R). The cost is put at $760 million.
  • Applications for formal alliances and joint venture licences are now in the hands of Singapore's attorney general. However, this milestone has not created any greater certainty about what the outcome might be.
  • Some US firms in London are beginning to count the cost of over-eager growth, but others are still hiring like there's no tomorrow. Rufus Jones looks at how US firms are pacing themselves in Europe's financial centre
  • Steven Bryan, partner in the corporate department and member of the energy group of Simmons & Simmons explains the detail behind one of the world's largest energy projects
  • Financial supervisor accepts internet as sole place for subscription
  • The closure of internet companies like boo.com are creating new hunting grounds for companies seeking strategic acquisitions in the US. Richard Mason, Mitchell Presser and David Silk of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York examine issues they must face
  • Mid-July saw the largest Turkish initial public offering (IPO) to date with Turkcell's floatation on the New York and Istanbul exchanges. The 11% stake in the company released in the IPO raised a total of $1.7 billion, valuing the company at approximately $16 billion.
  • They say you can have too much of a good thing, but you won't find the law firms that have become part of Deutsche Telekom's gang of advisers complaining. With three multi-billion dollar flotations behind them and a world-beating bond issue just completed, you can bet they are very happy indeed. And there is more to come.
  • In early July Clifford Chance advised on the first initial public offering (IPO) to take place simultaneously on three European exchanges. The flotation of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS) company, which took place on the Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid exchanges, raised approximately euro 3 billion ($2.8 billion). The IPO values EADS at euro 15.4 billion.