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  • US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges has lost Maurice Allen, joint head of its London office, in what the firm has described as a mutual understanding. Allen resigned together with corporate partners Nick Holt and Martin Hughes. Holt specializes in equity transactions, Hughes in international bank finance. They were followed a couple of days later by Rachel Hatfield, a capital markets partner.
  • No other country in the EU has liberalized its electricity market as completely as Germany. But as Jan Byok of Wessing, Düsseldorf, argues, the old municipal monopolies have still not felt the full force of competition
  • The rapid development of e-commerce can cause regulatory headaches. Lam Wing Wo of Deacons Graham & James, Hong Kong, explains the latest measures taken by the local government to keep apace
  • Mannesmann has agreed to a $176 billion merger with Vodafone AirTouch in a partnership that will create Europe's biggest telecoms company.
  • UK firms are demonstrating their confidence in a resurgent Asia. Clifford Chance has opened in Jakarta. Linklaters has appointed a managing partner for the region. Rowe & Maw has linked up with a Hong Kong firm.
  • US firm McDermott Will & Emery has recruited Theodore Goddard's head of tax to its London office.
  • US firm Shearman & Sterling has attracted leading London securitization partner Marke Raines from City firm Allen & Overy.
  • International firm Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn has added to its employment department in its London office.
  • President of the International Bar Association (IBA), Klaus Böhlhoff, has requested further information from General Musharaf and the Pakistani authorities, on the removal of Justice Siddiqui as the country's Chief Justice. Böhlhoff would also like an explanation on the suspension of several Supreme Court judges, as well as why the judges of Pakistan must now take an oath of allegiance to the President.
  • Name partners Christopher Tite and Mark Lewis have resigned from Arnheim Tite & Lewis, the UK correspondent law firm of Big Five professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). They have moved to big five rival Ernst & Young to help establish its legal arm.