21 MAY 2020 Top 10 Headlines | APARNA SAI Rajah & Tann Asia, Cooley and CMS have joined forces to launch Lupl, a global legal tech collaboration platform connecting lawyers in more than 100 jurisdictions.
Lupl, a matter synchronisation software which was also developed with other law firms and corporations, is billed as the world’s first open platform for legal matters. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For more news, click here to visit the website |
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| Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance has recruited restructuring specialist Shaun Langhorne as a partner in the firm’s Singapore office from Hogan Lovells. Full Article |
| AZB & Partners and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have advised GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on the $3.4 billion sale of its entire stake in India’s Hindustan Unilever, with Latham & Watkins representing the placement agents. Full Article |
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| Baker McKenzie has appointed leveraged finance specialist Kenneth Ching as a partner in Hong Kong from Shearman & Sterling, where he was a counsel. Full Article |
| While law firms may have once courted a traditional, somewhat conventional image — today, innovation and adaptation is the name of the game. Full Article |
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| In 2025 Indonesia target 23% of its national energy sourced from renewable energy and in 2050, it is expected to reach 31%.1 Perhaps it is an ambitious target as the realisation in 2019 only reached 12.36%, just about half of the 2025’s target, which is far below the expectation. Full Article |
| The ALB Singapore’s Top In-House Teams 2019 list showcases the achievements of the finest in-house legal teams in Singapore. Full Article |
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| During the tremendous growth of the Chinese economy over the last decade, corporates in China were easily able to obtain loans from banks and other financial institutions that were equally keen to advance credit, leading to a rapid rise in debt levels. Whilst the government sought to curb corporate debt by, among other means, restricting informal borrowing (also known as ‘shadow banking’), the slowdown in the economy in the last year or so and more recently following the outbreak of the coronavirus have yet again led to renewed policies to allow more loans and local government bond issuance. China’s debt to GDP ratio remains high, and with that, so is the level of non-performing loans. Full Article |
| Submissions for ALB’s annual ranking of the best law firms for M&A in Asia are now open. Full Article |
| Allen & Gledhill guides Singapore Airlines in its $6.2 bln rights issue and loan facility, UK firm Mishcon de Reya on $2 bln coal-to-methanol project in Indonesia, and many more in this week’s Asia Deals table. Full Article |
| SAM continues to grow its practice with lateral hires, Clifford Chance nabs restructuring expert from Hogan Lovells, and many more in this week’s Asia Appointments table. Full Article |
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