28 JANUARY 2021 Top 10 Headlines | APARNA SAI Legal counsel in the banking, funds and technology sectors are among the highest-paid in-house lawyers in Singapore, according to Robert Walters’ Annual Salary Survey 2021.
Lawyers in the banking sector with one to three years of post-qualification experience (PQE) were paid in the range of S$70,000 ($53,000) and S$130,000 in 2020, with the range going up to S$140,000-S$220,000 and S$180,000-S$400,000 for 4-7 PQE and 8-12 PQE, respectively. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For more news, click here to visit the website |
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| U.S. firm Reed Smith has expanded its Singapore office with the hire of six lawyers from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP), including partners Manoj Purushothaman and Simon Spells. Full Article |
| We are now accepting submissions for ALB Asia’s Rising Stars Indonesia list, which spotlights the next generation of the country’s lawyers. The list will be published in the March 2021 issue of ALB. Full Article |
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| Capital markets specialist Mengyu Lu has left Sidley Austin to rejoin Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in Hong Kong. Full Article |
| While it had been clear for most of the recent economic downturn that the 24% of Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed companies incorporated in Bermuda may have recourse to the court in their place of incorporation to secure an adjournment or stay of an actual or anticipated winding-up petition in Hong Kong, it is now equally clear that Cayman incorporated companies (which represent another 50% of the HKSE) will have similar access to restructuring assistance. Full Article |
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| Employment specialist Andrea Randall has joined UK law firm RPC in Hong Kong as a partner from local boutique Gall. Full Article |
| In this new listing, ALB will pick the most highly recommended arbitration and litigation practitioners based permanently in the Asian region. The list will be published in the April issue of ALB Asia. Full Article |
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| Puneet Bansal, managing partner of Nitya Tax Associates talks about the firm’s strategy which revolves around knowledge, the need for a firm’s culture to be based on integrity and his motto of integrity and ethics being paramount for success. Full Article |
| ALB’s annual survey of the best law firms to work for in Asia is now open. The list will be published in the April issue of ALB Asia. Full Article |
| Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Han Kun Law Offices have advised Chinese health-tech company Yidu Tech on its HK$4.1 billion ($531 million) initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with Slaughter & May and Haiwen & Partners representing the joint sponsors and underwriters. Full Article |
| Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, India’s third-largest law firm, has expanded in Mumbai with the hire of partners Lalan Gupta from Dhruve Lildhar & Co. and Amruta Kelkar from Economic Laws Practice. Full Article |
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