Divorce American Style /Summer 2008
Getting Coke to Spill: How a Central Asian divorce opened the door to U.S.-style discovery in arbitration. (Full Story)
By Michael D. Goldhaber

Firm Commitment /Summer 2008
How Tyco and other major corporations are redefining the client-law firm relationship in Europe. (Full Story)
By Richard Lloyd

Editor's Note /Summer 2008
Last fall, when our senior international correspondent, Michael D. Goldhaber, was invited to a conference in Washington, D.C., to advise in-house lawyers on how to deal with the press, he wound up talking about how little coverage international anticorruption efforts have gotten in the U.S. media. Back in the office, Goldhaber set about doing something to remedy that deficiency. (Full Story)

Opening Statements /Summer 2008

Switzerland: Not Neutral on Hostile Takeovers (Full Story)

Italy: Translating "Class Action" into Italian (Full Story)

Spain: Wider Horizons (Full Story)

Ireland: Lawyers Under Scrutiny (Full Story)

Italy: All Roads Lead to Milan (Full Story)

Ukraine: Kiev Heats Up (Full Story)

Market View: Sorry, Wrong Number /Summer 2008
A French lawyer's phone call to a prospective French witness in a U.S. lawsuit earns him a criminal conviction. (Full Story)
By Joseph Rosenbloom

Shell Games /Winter 2008
Shell's shareholders sued in the U.S. and settled in the Netherlands. An innovative Dutch law has created an intriguing new model for European class actions. (Full Story)
By Michael D. Goldhaber

Russian Revolutionaries /Winter 2008
Dimitry Afanasiev used his U.S. experience to build a very Russian firm in a legal market still dominated by foreigners. (Full Story)
By Richard Lloyd

Editor's Note /Winter 2008
All things considered, the European legal market has proven remarkably adaptive to U.S. innovations. (Full Story)

Opening Statements /Winter 2008

United Kingdom: Private Equity Cools Off (Full Story)

Germany: A Multinational Hit (Full Story)

Italy: Ready for REITs (Full Story)

Czech Republic: Ethics Crackdown (Full Story)

Italy: Gianni, Origoni's Split (Full Story)

Spain: The Soccer Wars (Full Story)

Brussels: Just Say No to Class Action (Full Story)

Europe: What Independent Firms Want (Full Story)

France: Law Firm Revenues (Full Story)

Market View: Room to Improve /Winter 2008
England's old conflict of interest rules for lawyers were a joke. The new ones are far better--but they still need some tinkering. (Full Story)
By Richard Lloyd

Houston, We Have an Arbritration /Summer 2007
With a gusher of oil and Latin American cases, Texans are among the big gainers in this year's survey of hundreds of diputes. (Full Story)
By Michael D. Goldhaber

Treaty Arbitrations /Summer 2007
Expanded for the Web. (Full Story)

Contract Arbitrations /Summer 2007
Expanded for the Web. (Full Story)

Editor's Note /Summer 2007
The numbers just keep getting bigger and bigger in our Arbitration Scorecard. (Full Story)

Opening Statements /Summer 2007

Germany: A Private Affair (Full Story)

Russia: The Texas Advantage (Full Story)

United Kingdom: The REIT Stuff (Full Story)

Italy: The New Italian Power (Full Story)

Spain: An Inside Job (Full Story)

Market View: Sour Notes? /Summerr 2007
Not everyone is singing the praises of Europe's attempt to harmonize its takeover laws. (Full Story)
By Richard Lloyd

Turkish Bath /Winter 2007
How a huge investment by Motorola and Nokia in one of Turkey's most prominent families turned into what one lawyer calls a "world war of litigation." (Full Story)
By Ben Hallman

Over the Hedge /Winter 2007
As hedge fund practices heat up in London, American firms want a piece of the action. (Full Story)
By Chris Crowe

Editor's Note /Winter 2007
We're just beginning to compile our biannual survey of major arbitrations-Arbitration Scorecard. (Full Story)

Opening Statements /Winter 2007

Germany: A Taste of Class Actions (Full Story)

Spain: Power Play (Full Story)

France: Knock It Off! (Full Story)

Central and Eastern Europe: All Together Now (Full Story)

Romania and Bulgaria: Joining the Club (Full Story)

Browsing the Paris Boutiques /Winter 2007
Size isn't everything. In an era of megafirms, the top M&A firms in France stay defiantly small. (Full Story)
By David Marcus

Junk Culture /Summer 2006
High-yield debt has finally crossed the Atlantic. A small cadre of U.S. firms are finding riches in the junk markets of Europe. (Full Story)
By Michael D. Goldhaber

Bank Raid /Summer 2006
Italy's securities regulator surprised everyone by cracking down on an illegal bidding ring in the Antonveneta takeover battle. But it took Milan's prosecutors to uncover the full conspiracy. (Full Story)
By Heather Smith

Opening Statements /Summer 2006

Belgium: Breaking Down the Walls (Full Story)

Belgium: REACHing Out (Full Story)

Ireland: The Road to Dublin (Full Story)

United Kingdom: Fortress Britain (Full Story)

Spain: Top-down Reform (Full Story)

Consultant's Memo /Summer 2006
Taking AIM: London's junior stock market is attracting serious interest from U.S. companies and their law firms. (Full Story)
By Claire Smith

Bully Pulpit /Summer 2006
Where Have You Gone, Mrs. Robinson? A new book by the U.N.'s former high commissioner for human rights outlines a persuasive philosophy of basic freedoms. (Full Story)
By Michael D. Goldhaber

Trade Warriors /Winter 2006
In the contest for world supremacy, it's Europe vs. America, Airbus vs. Boeing--and Wilmer vs. Sidley. (Full Story)
By Michael D. Goldhaber

Critical Mass /Winter 2006
American-style class actions are still unknown in Europe. But that's changing. (Full Story)
By Heather Smith

Editor's Note /Winter 2006

The emergence of the WTO bar. (Full Story)

Opening Statements /Winter 2006

United Kingdom: Allen & Overy Tells All (Full Story)

Italy: Divorce, Italian Style (Full Story)

Belgium: Lawyers Without Borders (Full Story)

Czech Republic: The Past on Trial (Full Story)

Belgium: New Rules for Playing Monopoly (Full Story)

Germany: Breaking Step at Haarmann Hemmelrath (Full Story)

Big Deals /Winter 2006
The five largest recent transactions involving targets or acquirors from each of six European countries or regions. (Full Story)

Consultant's Memo /Winter 2006
Nordic Track: A private equity boom in Scandanavia offers opportunities for outside firms. So far, however, there are few takers. (Full Story)
By Claire Smith

Arbitration Scorecard /Summer 2005
An inside look at more than 100 major disputes from the secret world of arbitration. (Full Story)
By Michael D. Goldhaber

Survey: Treaty Disputes /Summer 2005
Fifty-nine treaty disputes with stakes of at least $100 million. (Full Story)

Survey: Contract Disputes /Summer 2005
Seventy-one contract disputes in which more than $300 million was at stake (Full Story)

Late to the Party /Winter 2005
Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance have traditionally dominated London finance. But now Freshfields and Linklaters want a bigger share of the pie. (Full Story)
By Michael D. Goldhaber

The Global Finance Wars /Winter 2005
Can the Americans Be Caught? (Full Story)
By By Peter Zeughauser

Editor's Note: It's a Mystery /Winter 2005
What Do European Firm's Finance Departments Do?(Full Story)
By Emily Barker

Europe's Brown v. Board of Education /Winter 2005
The Roma are fighting their own landmark court battle against discrimination.(Full Story)
By Michael D. Goldhaber

Madame La Présidente /Summer 2004
A woman who sits as president of a major arbitral tribunal is a rare creature. Why? (Full Story)
By Michael D. Goldhaber

Wanted: A World Investment Court /Summer 2004
All-powerful global institutions may be out of fashion. But, as recent arbitration rulings show, they may be exactly what the world needs. (Full Story)
By By Michael D. Goldhaber

A "Completely Appalling" Decision /Summer 2004
(Full Story)

Editor's Note: The Women of Arbitration /Summer 2004
Why are there so few?(Full Story)
By Amy Singer

The Euro 50 /Summer 2004
Who's doing well in Europe?(Full Story)

Cracking the Continent's Private Equity Market /Winter 2004
Is there room left for newcomers? (Full Story)
By John E. Morris

Betting on the Balkans /Winter 2004
Western law firms are tentatively venturing into the region. (Full Story)
By Douglas McCollam

Special Competition Issue /Fall 2003
Change is happening in many areas of competition law.(Full Story)
By Amy Singer

The Arbitration Scorecard /Summer 2003
40 major international disputes, featuring the players, the judges, the awards, and details never before made public. (Full Story)
A Focus Europe Survey by Michael D. Goldhaber