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  • Uria has made inroads in Latin America, and Garrigues is seeking a presence there but Cuatrecasas is committed to the first merger. Stephen Mulrenan reports on Europe’s most dynamic market
  • As part of its strategy to expand its Paris cross-border M&A practice, Herbert Smith has appointed a new partner, Sylvie Dariosecq.
  • The US firm offering £1 million ($1.65 million) or more for an English lawyer is Chicago’s McDermott Will & Emery, IFLR can exclusively reveal.
  • Germany’s Deutsche Bank confirmed on November 23 that it was in the advanced stages of talks to buy US bank holding company Bankers Trust. The merger would create the world’s fifth-largest fund manager, with $500 billion-worth of assets.
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  • Growing opportunities abroad for young Canadian lawyers have forced domestic firms to reassess their strategy. Stephen Mulrenan reports
  • The Helsinki office of White & Case is advising the Republic of Finland and Sonera Group on the sale of the government’s 21.9% stake in Sonera. The transaction is the largest equity offering to date by a Finnish issuer as a total value of over $1.4 billion.
  • A stellar team of law firms has been assembled to represent Exxon and Mobil on their $79 billion merger, the largest in history. The merged company will be known as Exxon Mobil and, with a market value of $250 billion, will be the world’s biggest quoted energy company, ahead of Royal Dutch/Shell Group. The different firms are needed to cover regulatory and antitrust aspects, as well as corporate issues, for the US and the companies’ principal foreign subsidiaries.
  • Guernsey law firm, Ferbrache & Co (soon to be renamed Ferbrache Morgan) plans to poach partners from City firms in a bid to compete with other firms on the island. The planned growth has resulted from Ferbrache & Co receiving more work as a result of its alliance with The Bank of East Asia.
  • "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.