20 SEP 2018 Top 10 Headlines | ELIZABETH BEATTIE A team of six lawyers, led by partners Adam Hugill and Alfred Ip, has left Hong Kong law firm Oldham, Li & Nie (OLN) to set up a new boutique named Hugill & Ip.
The firm will focus on dispute resolution, employment, business immigration, notary, corporate/commercial and private-client work. In a statement, it said it wished to “apply modern thinking to client service, utilising up-to-date technology in a contemporary office environment.” Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For more news, click here to visit the website |
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| Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is set to exit South Korea after six years in that country, even as fellow New York-headquartered firm Shearman & Sterling gets closer to open an office there. Full Article |
| Pinsent Masons has expanded its energy resources and infrastructure practice with the appointment of Brian Scott as corporate partner in Singapore from Herbert Smith Freehills. Full Article |
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| Thirty-lawyer Malaysian firm Zain & Co. has become a member of Dentons’ global network, the second firm in an ASEAN country to do so this year after Hanafiah Ponggawa & Partners in Indonesia. Full Article |
| Offshore firm Harneys has hired dispute resolution specialist Andrew Johnstone as a partner in Hong Kong from HFW, and also named Ian Mann, head of its litigation and restructuring practice group, as its new Asia managing partner. Full Article |
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| Singapore’s bar exams are set to be more stringent from 2023, according to local media, with the practice training period also said to be increased to a year. Full Article |
| Singapore’s RHTLaw Taylor Wessing has hired Yang Eu Jin as a partner and co-head of its capital markets practice from Overseas Education, an SGX Mainboard-listed company, where he was an executive director and general counsel. Full Article |
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| Latham helps on NIO’s 1 bln IPO, Davis Polk acts on Mizuho’s over $2 bln multiple transactions, and much more in this week’s Asia Deal’s table. Full Article |
| Indian law firm Link Legal has hired Anuj Trivedi as a partner in its corporate practice from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, where he was a principal associate. Full Article |
| Goodwin Procter has hired debt finance specialist Daniel Lindsey as a partner in its private equity practice in Hong Kong from Kirkland & Ellis. Full Article |
| New partner joins Link Legal from Shardul, Goodwin Procter adds another senior lawyer from Kirkland and Ellis, and much more in this week’s Asia Appointments table. Full Article |
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