| Samsung chief Jay Y. Lee has handpicked 13 top lawyers to defend him against charges of bribing the South Korean president, nearly all of them former judges or prosecutors, according to the court where he will be tried. | Morrison & Foerster has represented Japan’s SoftBank on a $13 billion merger between OneWeb, a U.S. satellite startup that it backs, and Luxembourg-based operator Intelsat, which turned to Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for advice.
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| Manila-based boutique Gulapa Law Office (G-Law) has opened a satellite office in Manhattan, New York City, through its affiliate Gulapa & Baclay.
| Submissions for the ALB 2017 Intellectual Property Rankings will close on March 17. |
| The Ministry of Law, the Law Society of Singapore and government agency SPRING Singapore have launched “Tech Start for Law”, a $2.8 million programme designed to help local law firms adopt various technologies to improve their productivity and deliver better legal services. |
| Clifford Chance has advised Comcast NBCUniversal on its $2.3 billion purchase of the remaining 49 percent it does not already own in Universal Studios Japan from an investor group that includes Goldman Sachs, which turned to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu for counsel. |
| ZICO Holdings has launched ShakeUp Online, a subsidiary aimed at delivering tech-enabled professional legal services to SMEs in the ASEAN region. |
| Korean law firm Bae, Kim & Lee (BKL) has hired Seong Soo Kim, a former presiding judge of the Seoul Central District Court, as a partner in its litigation practice. |
| India-based IP law firm LexOrbis has set up its second office in Mumbai, two years after launching its first one in Bengaluru. |
| Mayer Brown JSM has hired Yu-Jin Tay in Singapore from DLA Piper, where he was the co-chair of its international arbitration group from 2013 to 2016. |
| Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has hired corporate specialist Janney Chong as a partner in its Hong Kong office from Sidley Austin. |
| Berwin Leighton Paisner and Ogier have advised Hong Kong-listed property firm CC Land on its $1.4 billion acquisition of London's iconic Leadenhall Building from a joint venture between British Land and Canada’s Oxford Properties. |
| Allen & Gledhill advise on HDB’s issuance of fixed rate notes worth $638.2 mln, AZB on Havells India’s $240 mln purchase of Lloyd Electric and Engineering's consumer durables unit, and many more in this week’s Southeast Asia Deals table. |
| Mayer Brown lands DLA Piper’s international arbitration co-chair, BKL hires ex-Seoul judge as litigation partner, and many more in this week’s Asia Appointments table. |
| MoFo, Milbank and Wachtell star in $13 bln merger between SoftBank-backed OneWeb and Intelsat, Davis Polk on China Lodging Group’s $531 mln purchase of Crystal Orange Hotels, and many more in this week’s North Asia deals table. |
