| With so many consumers now unwittingly buying fake products online, brand reputations are being tarnished by counterfeiters monetizing a brand’s global prestige, or by product recalls and liability claims when counterfeits infiltrate supply chains. So how do you protect your brand? |
| Clifford Chance has advised real estate deveoper Eco World International (EWI) on its $580 million IPO and listing on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia, the biggest IPO in the country so far this year. |
| India’s Luthra & Luthra Law Offices has hired Pallavi Bedi as corporate partner from J. Sagar Associates (JSA). |
| Shearman & Sterling has advised Zhaopin on its go-private deal with a consortium led by Seek International, the Chinese job site’s current controlling shareholder, along with Hillhouse Capital Management and Fountainvest Partners. |
| Thai law firm Apisith & Alliance has appointed Mark D'Alelio, Duane Morris & Selvam (DMS) Myanmar’s managing director, as a partner in its corporate and commercial practice group. |
| Baker McKenzie and its Asia-based member firms Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners and Baker McKenzie.Wong & Leow have advised UPC Renewables and AC Energy Holdings on the development and financing of a $150 million wind farm project in Indonesia. |
| White & Case has hired Jianchong (Andre) Zhu as M&A partner in Beijing from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he was counsel. |
| Bakers and W&C snap up M&A specialists in Greater China, Thailand’s Apisith & Alliance hires DMS Myanmar’s managing director, and many more in this week’s Asia Appointments table. |
| Baker McKenzie has hired Rose Zhu as M&A partner in Beijing and Hong Kong from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where she was partner and chief representative in China. |
| Slaughters, AZB and S&R on $23 bln India telco merger, Freshies, CC on Guotai Junan’s $2.1 bln IPO in HK, and many more in this week’s Asia Deals table. |
| Baker McKenzie has launched Global Antitrust Dawn Raid App, a mobile software that provides clients with real-time and step-by-step guidance on their rights and obligations should they be raided, as well as instant access to the firm’s antitrust lawyers. |
