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Baker & McKenzie announced today that it has established a Central European Transactions Team, a dedicated transaction team of over 40 partners focused on providing privatisation, M&A, project finance, securities and infrastructure advice to clients across Central and Eastern Europe. The team will deploy its extensive experience in handling projects of this type to assist

Tomorrow millions of California consumers and businesses will begin receiving forms allowing them to claim up to $1.1 billion in benefits from the settlement of an antitrust class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation. Over 10 million forms will be mailed during the next 60 days. Claim forms may also be obtained immediately online at www.microsoftcalsettlement.com

Baker & McKenzie announced today the enhancement of its Health Law Practice in North America with the addition of four health law lawyers, all joining the Firm’s Dallas office from Jenkens & Gilchrist. Partner Ken Gordon leads the group, which includes partner Wilson Jones and associates Nneka Egbuniwe and Pamela Nix. Ken Gordon comes to

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP announced that Philip L. Kirstein, will join K&L’s New York office as Of Counsel on October 1, 2003. Kirstein was most recently General Counsel of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. “Having spent more than 20 years in-house at Merrill Lynch, I’m excited to be re-entering private practice at K&L. The firm’s well-regarded

Eversheds has taken on another new partner in its rapidly growing Paris office. Pascal de Moidrey joined the firm on 1 September 2003. Pascal joins from Paris firm Latournerie Wolfrom & Associés, where he advised on a wide variety of corporate finance matters. His expertise covers M&A deals, corporate restructuring, IPOs and private equity transactions

Takashi Suzuki, one of Japan’s top M&A and corporate finance lawyers, has joined the international law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP and its joint enterprise office, Kyo Sogo Law Offices, as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. The addition of Suzuki reflects Dorsey’s confidence in the continued long-term growth of business in Asia,

Seyfarth Shaw LLP, a leading national full-service law firm, and D’Ancona & Pflaum LLC, a 100-year-old Chicago law firm, today announced the merger of the two firms effective October 1, 2003. As one of the largest mergers of two Chicago-based law firms in recent years, the addition of D’Ancona’s 60 attorneys to Seyfarth Shaw creates

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced today that Peter Alexiadis has joined the firm as a partner to assist in the launch of the Firm’s Brussels office and in the development of a pan-European competition law practice along with Munich’s Michael Walther. Alexiadis practiced formerly with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP in Brussels. With the

France Telecom, represented by Coudert Brothers, will sell its indirect interests in Telecom Argentina to W de Argentina, an affiliate of the Los W group, a leading Argentinean investment company. Consideration is US$125 million, to be paid in full at closing. The closing of the transaction is expected to take place as soon as all