Volvo/Ford
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Ford Motor Company is set to become the world’s second largest car manufacturer if its planned £4 billion acquisition of AB Volvo of Sweden goes through.
GEC/British Aerospace
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British Aerospace plc took a lead role in European defence consolidation with plans to buy General Electric Co’s Marconi defence unit for £7.7 billion.
Bogle & Gates dissolution
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Seattle firm Bogle & Gates PLLC ceased to practise law on March 31. The decision to dissolve the 173-lawyer firm followed the departure of eight partners to the Seattle office of Dorsey and Whitney in January.
FTC Director joins Fulbright & Jaworski
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Former Director of the Southeast Regional Office of the Federal Trade Commission Anthony DiResta has joined the Washington office of Fulbright & Jaworski as of counsel. He will focus on complex commercial litigation for antitrust and unfair competition.
Simpson Grierson appoints new competition partner
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Competition specialist Elisabeth Welson has been appointed partner in the Wellington office of Simpson Grierson.
Liedekerke Wolter Waelbroeck & Kirkpatrick merges with Schiltz Linden Grolig
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Belgian firm Liedekerke Wolter Waelbroek & Kirkpatrick has merged with primarily Flemish boutique practice Schiltz Linden Grolig to improve its national coverage.
Former FTC man joins Hogan & Hartson
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The former Assistant Director of the FTC’s Premerger Notification office, Joseph Krauss, has joined Washington DC firm Hogan & Hartson as counsel.
Olswang goes to Brussels
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UK firm Olswang is increasing its strength in the competition field with a new office in Brussels and new recruitment in London.
Wilmer Cutler & Pickering picks up competition strength in Europe and Washington
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Former German Federal Minister of Transport Matthias Wissmann, joined the Berlin office of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickeing at the beginning of March.
New competition base for Feddersen in Düsseldorf
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German firm Feddersen Laule Scherzberg & Ohle Hansen Ewerwahn is to build a new antitrust focus in Düsseldorf headed by partner Horst Henschen.
Italian merger
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Italian law firms Erede e Associati, Bonelli e Associati and Pappalardo e Associati are merging to create the largest law firm in Italy, with approximately 100 lawyers.
Pünder moves offices in Brussels
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German law firm Pünder Volhard Weber & Axster is consolidating and strengthening its competition activities in Brussels.
Bright future for Clifford Chance
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One of Linklaters’ leading competition lawyers, Christopher Bright, has left the firm to become managing partner of Clifford Chance’s European competition practice.
Twenty years of Allen & Overy in Brussels, 20 fewer Commissioners
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March 16 was prematurely springlike in the Cercle Royal Gardens in Brussels as Allen & Overy celebrated 20 years of doing business in the Belgian capital with a birthday seminar which attracted well over 100 lawyers, regulators and firm clients from around the world.
Delta/Atlantic Southeast
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Delta Air Lines has taken control of ASA Holdings Inc, the parent company of Atlantic Southeast Airlines. Atlantic Southeast and ASA Holdings will remain wholly owned but separate units.
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