Firm helps LAWorld to put sale of the century on-lineEssex firm Kenneth Elliott & Rowe (KER) is behind an on-line initiative by international legal network LAWorld to advertise businesses for sale around the world.KER is a member of the 1,000-lawyer network of 33 small and mid-sized firms in 25 countries, and senior partner Chris Dixon - who founded LAWorld - came up with the idea of the virtual marketplace.

Finnish member Jokinen & Associates implemented it.As well as posting clients' businesses for sale, the marketplace will be open to other companies which broker businesses for sale.The plan is to extend it to products which clients have for sale, and LAWorld is in talks with on-line trading community Simply Trading about a link-up.

'The intention is to get quite a lot of work out of it,' said Mr Dixon.Neil Rose