International law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Paul Weidong Wang has joined the firm’s corporate practice as a partner in Beijing. Paul Wang was most recently a partner at DeHeng Law Offices and previously
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Taylor Wessing Announces Dubai Finance Partner Hire
International law firm Taylor Wessing today announces that Neale Downes will join Taylor Wessing Middle East LLP, the Firm’s Dubai office, on 10 June
Read moreEversheds Hires Distinguished Asia Construction and Infrastructure Head
International law firm Eversheds has appointed one of the world’s leading arbitration and construction lawyers, Iain Black as a Partner and Head of Asia Construction and Infrastructure practice in its Singapore office
Read moreDLA Piper to Expand Hong Kong Corporate and Global Insurance and Reinsurance Sector Groups
DLA Piper today announces that a group of lawyers led by partners Joyce Chan and Heng Loong Cheong will join the firm’s Hong Kong office from Dewey & LeBoeuf
Read moreKing & Wood Mallesons’ Hong Kong Private Equity Practice Attracts Quality Lateral Hire
King & Wood Mallesons has expanded its Corporate and Securities practice with the lateral hire of Counsel Matt Egerton-Warburton to the firm’s Hong Kong office, where Matt will specialise in M&A and Private Equity
Read moreKing & Wood Mallesons Acts on Major Energy Deal
King & Wood Mallesons has advised Hong Kong-listed China Resources Gas Group Limited (CRG) on its US$237.7 million acquisition of AEI China Gas Ltd
Read moreKing & Wood Mallesons Acts on Palisade Ports’ Acquisition of 50 Per Cent Equity Interest in the Port of Portland
King & Wood Mallesons has acted for Palisade Ports Pty Limited on its strategic acquisition of Australian Infrastructure Fund’s 50 per cent equity interest in the Port of Portland
Read moreK&L Gates Expands Moscow Office with Addition of Real Estate and Corporate Partners
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added real estate partner Andrei V. Soukhomlinov and corporate and finance partner Dmitry K. Gladkov to its Moscow office
Read moreKing & Wood Mallesons Advises on $2.3bn Sydney Desalination Plant Refinancing
King & Wood Mallesons advised Sydney Water and the NSW Government on the successful refinancing of Sydney Desalination Plant for $2.3 billion. KWM worked alongside the other lead advisers Goldman Sachs and KPMG as part
Read moreHogan Lovells Advises on Massive US$34 Billion Ichthys LNG Project
Hogan Lovells has been advising JKC Australia LNG (a joint venture between Japan’s JGC Corporation, Houston-based KBR and Japan’s Chiyoda Corporation) in relation to the US$34 billion Ichthys LNG Project in Australia. JKC signed a
Read moreInternet Piracy in Asia Shows Need for Copyright Protection
Controversy over internet piracy has been around ever since the term was created in the 1990s.
Read moreFreehills Hires Senior GC Bolstering its Infrastructure Team
Freehills has appointed former general counsel for Transurban and Veolia Water, Stephen Byrne, as an executive counsel in its Projects practice group in Sydney
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