Ashurst has launched a graduate scheme within its NewLaw legal operations division, Ashurst Advance. The firm has named the scheme the Ashurst Advance Pathway Programme, or Pathway. Graduates selected for it will have the opportunity to train in areas such as legal operations, legal project management, legal technology and legal process improvement. The Pathway programme […]
Stewarts has brought in three new lawyers, including one partner, to boost its tax litigation and investigations team. James Le Gallais has joined the firm as a partner from Peters & Peters. He already has significant instructions in commercial tax litigation, including the multi-million-pound action against funding company Ingenious Media. Le Gallais will bring expertise […]
A deputy judge in Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance has slammed K&L Gates’s request for documents as “vague”, “inconsistent” and “convoluted” in an ongoing fraud dispute involving a former partner. A judgment dated 29 March shows that the US firm requested a number of documents, including some protected by confidentiality agreements, in a bid […]
The University of Law (ULaw) has handed control of its new Hong Kong campus to one of the legal education world’s most well-known figures. Peter Crisp, who served as dean of BPP from 2003 to 2017 before becoming pro vice chancellor external at ULaw, will take on the role of dean at the new campus, […]
Mayer Brown has hired Hogan Lovells corporate partner Steven Tran as it continues to flesh out its corporate practice in the city. Tran was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis prior to joining Hogan Lovells in 2014 and his practice is focused largely on corporate & securities, private equity and M&A. Last year he led […]
Shearman & Sterling is relocating three of its lawyers to South Korea as the firm opens an office in the country’s capital, Seoul. Partner Anna Chung will lead the team, having worked in Shearman’s project finance and development teams across London, Shanghai and Singapore for the past 13 years. She was made a partner in […]
Cooley is in the process of expanding its Asia presence, with the firm hiring a Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom partner to spearhead its planned Hong Kong launch. Cooley has hired Skadden partner Will Cai in Hong Kong. Cai was made up at Skadden in 2014 and has a focus on China-related capital markets […]
A four-lawyer private equity team led by partner Daniel Yeh has left Ropes & Gray’s Hong Kong office for White & Case. Yeh, who joined Ropes from Weil Gotshal & Manges in 2015, is to be appointed head of PE for White & Case in Asia Pacific. He is taking a team of three; Ropes […]
Following Dyson’s announcement to move its headquarters to Singapore, the technology group’s general counsel will relocate to the South East Asia hub and is currently conducting a panel review. Dyson’s group general counsel Martin Bowen is set to relocate to Singapore in July, as the company moves its headquarters from Malmesbury in Wiltshire to Asia. […]
Baker McKenzie has poached another lawyer from White & Case, its fourth hire from the US firm in the space of under a year, as it seeks to pursue its transactional growth strategy. Peter Lu joins Bakers as a partner and head of the firm’s China group in London. He was previously a counsel in White […]
Shearman & Sterling’s Hong Kong office has seen another partner exit, as its only corporate lawyer Stephanie Tang jumped ship to Hogan Lovells. Tang has joined Hogan Lovells’ corporate practice as a partner in Hong Kong. She focuses on M&A, private equity and capital markets transactions and has experience in advising Chinese companies and private […]
The latest in a string of non-stop purchases, alternative legal services provider Elevate has finalised another acquisition that will this time boost the company’s expansion into the Asia-Pacific market. Elevate is taking on Hong Kong-based flexible lawyering service Cognatio Law, which was launched in Hong Kong in February of last year to accomodate the local need for […]
Italian heavyweight Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners is launching an office in Shanghai in its first international expansion for four years. The Shanghai office is Gianni Origoni’s eleventh office globally, and its second in Asia. It launched in Hong Kong in 2014 and signed a formal alliance agreement with Chinese firm Han Kun Law […]
Clyde & Co‘s star magic circle hire in China, Beijing managing partner Patrick Zheng, has left after four years to join independent firm Llinks Law. Zheng will be a partner in Llinks’ cross-border dispute resolution practice. In his new firm, Zhang will join co-founder Charles Qin, as well as partner Peiming Yang, in leading the firm’s […]
Addleshaw Goddard has brought in veteran Asia head Bob Charlton in from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) to head up its Asia Pacific presence. Charlton will join Addleshaws after heading up BCLP’s Asia presence since 2014. Bryan Cave merged with Berwin Leighton Paisner in February this year to form BCLP. This new appointment will mean […]
Shanda Group general counsel Li Han has exited the company after six years to join O’Melveny in Hong Kong. Han, who led the legal team at the global investment firm, is returning to private practice as a corporate partner. Prior to joining Shanda, she was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell for over three […]
Ashurst has boosted its Asian banking and finance practice with the hires of Fangda Partners partner Eric Tan and Allen & Overy (A&O) counsel Daniel Lau.
Tan specialises in acquisition finance, cross border lending, structured finance and other banking matters.
Cooley has launched a second Chinese office in Beijing, hiring Ropes & Gray counsel Xun Zeng as a partner.
Zeng was at his former firm for over three years, first as an associate in the private investment funds group and then as a counsel in the same practice based in Hong Kong.
.Gowling WLG has extended its “best friend” relationship with Indian law firm Naik Naik & Company from its UK LLP to the firm’s Canada arm as post-merger integration continues.
Osborne Clarke’s best friend firm in India has opened its second office in the country to tap into the region’s burgeoning technology markets.
Linklaters has once again claimed the title as the international firm seen to have the most robust India practice, while Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has shot up to second place, research reveals.
The Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) has contacted its members saying the opening of the country’s legal services market to foreign firms is inevitable and imminent.
Kennedys has launched its first India desk, becoming the latest firm to increase its focus in the country ahead of a possible market liberalisation.
India has taken one step forward and two steps back in its move to liberalise its legal market following an unexpected move by the Bar Council of India (BCI) this month.
China’s litigation climate is now more attractive to clients due to greater independence and transparency. It’s creating a raft of opportunities for overseas law firms
Since 2013, the Top 30 firms in China has taken giant strides forward, with average revenue and headcounts soaring.
In a highly competitive and low-growth market, firms are increasingly turning to technology and innovation to stay ahead of competition while boosting efficiency and profitability. Asia-based firms are no exception. Those in Australia and Singapore, where growth has been harder to achieve, are leading the charge. Over the past few years, ‘legal hackathon’ and ‘design […]
A&O, Dentons, Norton Rose – energetic leadership and bold ambition characterise the law firms that have become global players in recent years
Pinsent Masons is taking a different approach to China from most of its rivals, as data in The Lawyer’s most recent Global 200 report confirms.
Relationships are important in China’s business culture, but after almost 20 years of flirting, Clifford Chance still can’t find an alliance partner.
On 19 June 2018, the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India (DoT) finally provided its nod to several key recommendations (Recommendations) made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on the Regulatory Framework for Internet Telephony in October 2017. DoT has released a clarification (Clarification) and certain amendments to existing licenses (Amendment), both of […]
At the Pharmaceutical Forum of the EAEU and CIS countries held in Moscow in late February 2018, the Director of the Department of Technical Regulation and Accreditation of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEС) said that the full-scale work on registration of medicines using the unified information system of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will start […]
Currently, Income Tax Act, 1961 (IT Act) provides for imputing income in the hands of the transferor/transferee if the transaction of transfer/receipt of unquoted shares is not at fair market value (FMV). As far as the recipient is concerned, when a person receives, inter alia, unquoted shares of a company for a consideration which is […]
On 18 May the Reserve Bank of India issued a circular on ‘Partial Credit Enhancement to Corporate Bonds’ which rationalises the existing “Guidelines on Partial Credit Enhancement to Corporate Bonds by Banks”… …The introduction of two ratings by the Circular will provide comparable rating statistics for the bonds, thereby offering more comfort to the banks. […]
The Asia Pacific 100 2017 report consists of 80 pages of exclusive data and analysis on the region’s 100 largest firms. It is the most comprehensive guide to the top legal advisers in the region’s key markets. It provides useful information for international firms that are looking to expand into the region or seeking to […]
On 31 January 2017, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare notified the Medical Devices Rules, 2017 (Rules) under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 which would come into effect from 1 January 2018… …The Rules come as a welcome move by the Government, as it seems to remove the manufacture, import and distribution of […]
On 10 January 2017, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) notified the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) (Fifteenth Amendment) Regulations 2016 (Amendment), amending the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations 2000 (Regulations)… … The Amendment opens up […]
Despite China’s economic growth having reached its slowest in 25 years last year, the country’s leading law firms continued their strong pace of revenue growth. The China Elite 2016 report singles out the top 30 firms by annual turnover and provides a year-on-year comparison on their results. This year, it also takes a special look at […]
Despite China’s economic growth having reached its slowest in 25 years last year, the country’s leading law firms continued their strong pace of revenue growth. The China Elite 2016 report singles out the top 30 firms by annual turnover and provides a year-on-year comparison on their results. This year, it also takes a special look at […]
The Asia-Pacific 150, now in its fourth year, ranks the largest 100 locally-headquartered independent and 50 largest international firms by their regional headcount and looks at trends in the legal markets in key jurisdictions. The report provides an overview of the trends and important developments in Asia-Pacific from the standpoint of both local and international firms. As the […]
Close at the heels of the announcement made in the Union Budget in February 2016, the Government released Press Note 4 of 2016 dated 6 May 2016 (Press Note 4) liberalising foreign entry norms in asset reconstruction companies registered with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) (ARCs) by allowing 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) under the automatic route in […]
