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  • 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.
  • 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
  • Pakistan is set to bring financial services under the aegis of the Koran. Orr, Dignam & Co, Karachi, review the likely effect of the decision to ban interest payments
  • 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.
  • Baker & McKenzie has recruited the head of derivatives at UK firm Hammond Suddards to its structured finance practice in London. Iona Levine joined the global firm at the beginning of February to head up its derivatives arm and is now one of six partners and 15 fee-earners in the firm's practice.
  • UK legal recruitment consultancy Longbridge International has launched the legal section of its online recruitment service. The site, search-direct.com, is being touted as a unique forum whereby employers and candidates retain control of the recruitment process without the need for consultancies.
  • After 10 years of wrangling, the Indian government has privatized its insurance industry. Aparna Viswanathan of Viswanathan & Co asks whether the legislative reforms have created an adequate regulatory framework
  • 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.
  • Independent Belgian firm Loeff Claeys Verbeke has lost its head of tax to the UK's Freshfields.
  • 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