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  • Simmons & Simmons has been used as adviser on two of Hong Kong's largest recent deals, underlining its status in the market. In the first, the UK firm advised Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) on its acquisition of Cable & Wireless HKT. The successful bid is one the largest takeovers in Asia with a value of $36 billion. Cable & Wireless owns a 54% stake in HKT. The merger will make PCCW the third largest company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
  • Stephen Fiamma will leave his position as partner-in-chief of the London office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue on April 30 and will join Allen & Overy as a tax partner. Robert Thomson, an English lawyer and former head of litigation at Jones Day, will take over as partner-in-chief at the US firm's London office.
  • US law firm Shearman & Sterling has hired a non-lawyer, Clinton Kendrick, to its executive board. The firm calls Kendrick "an international financial services executive and entrepreneur". He joins the firm from Matrix Global Investments, where he was CEO. The other members of the four-man board are: Stephen Volk, senior partner; Whitney Pidot, managing partner; and David Heleniak, European coordinator.
  • Clifford Chance has boosted its international securitization practice by attracting one of Lovells' leading capital markets partners, Peter Voisey. The loss will be a blow to Lovells and gives Clifford Chance a total of eight partners in its stand-alone group.
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  • Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising on its second recent high-tech merger (see Network Solutions). The US firm is advising Mission Critical Software on its intended merger with NetIQ Corporation. Both companies are valued at $1.4 billion in what they describe as "a merger of equals".
  • The SEC’s new tender offer and M&A rules went into effect on January 24 and are already proving to be very different from the old rules. Meredith M Brown, Alan H Paley and William D Regner, of Debevoise & Plimpton, examine how the new rules are working in practice