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  • "We are in conversations with Brown & Wood, looking towards a merger," says James Hurlock, chair of the management committee of New York firm White & Case. Talks began in late October, and the firms hope to have an agreement, if the discussions progress satisfactorily, by the end of February. A merger would create the world's fifth largest law firm.
  • Thomas Bischof, general counsel of the finance department at Swisscom, Berne, talks to Stephen Mulrenan
  • Firms in Asia are all looking to restructuring to survive but who’s really bringing in the corporate recovery work in the region? Alison Shaw reports from Hong Kong
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  • Denmark adapts to the euro
  • US law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges is advising the City of Krakow on its Dm66 million ($40 million) eurobond issue. The deal, which was challenging to structure because of the Polish authorization procedure, has raised hopes in the market.
  • UK firm Freshfields has appointed US arbitration lawyer Eric Schwartz, a former partner in the Paris office of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, as partner in its arbitration practice. Resident in the Paris office of Freshfields, Schwartz expects to take advantage of a greater depth of resources than he found at his old firm.
  • New York law firm Kelley Drye & Warren has made lateral hires to set up an International Trade and Investment Group and expand its Financial Institutions Group.
  • Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, has appointed a new chairman for the UK Law Commission, the body responsible for examining possible reforms to legislation. Justice Robert Carnwath will take up his position in February.
  • US law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has promoted Zoë Ashcroft to partner. Ashcroft is the tenth partner at the firm’s London office, and its first female partner. Her practice focuses on corporate and banking finance, with particular emphasis on transatlantic mergers and acquisitions transaction.