| Name | To | From | Practice Area | Notes |
| Hong Kong | ||||
| Cori Lable | Kirkland & Ellis | Ropes & Gray | Global Investigations and Enforcement | Cori Lable has built a practice defending multinational clients throughout Asia in cross-border government investigations, enforcement actions, and related complex civil litigation, and providing compliance advice to address corruption, money laundering, export controls and other international risks. She has extensive experience working with clients in the private equity, financial services, pharmaceuticals and medical device sectors. |
| Raymond Wong | Seyfarth Shaw | King & Wood Mallesons | Corporate & Commercial | Raymond Wong's practice focuses on mergers & acquisitions, general corporate and commercial, corporate strategies, IPOs, regulatory compliance, and public takeovers in Hong Kong, China and the UK. |
| Charles Chau | Jones Day | Morrison & Foersters | Corporate | An adviser for nearly 20 years to clients in Hong Kong, mainland China, and the Asia-Pacific region, Charles Chau has extensive experience in public and private company acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and pre-IPO investment transactions. His sector experience includes banking and financial services, healthcare, biotech, retail, real estate and manufacturing. |
| Dickson Ng | Taylor Wessing | Latham & Watkins | Corporate | Dickson Ng, a corporate and capital markets lawyer, as a partner in Hong Kong. Dickson Ng joins from Latham & Watkins. He specialises in initial public offerings, secondary offerings, multi-jurisdictional private and public mergers and acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations and private investment in public equity (PIPE). Dickson Ng, who is admitted as a lawyer in Hong Kong and England & Wales, has previously worked for Freshfields and Mayer Brown. |
| Conor Warde | Mayer Brown JSM | Clyde & CO | Banking & Finance | Warde was formerly a Hong Kong-based leader of Clyde & Co’s ship finance and transactional practice. He is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong and England & Wales, and has over ten years’ experience advising on ship finance and maritime transactions. |
| Philip Monaghan | O'Melveny & Myers | HKCC | Antitrust & competition | Philip Monaghan served as the first executive director (general counsel) of the HKCC, which was created in 2013. In addition to his work with the HKCC, Philip Monaghan is an English and Hong Kong qualified lawyer with nearly 15 years’ practise in all areas of competition law, including restrictive agreements and cartels, abuse of market power, merger control, and market studies. |
| Michael Chin | Simmons & Simmons | Hogan Lovells | Corporate & Commercial | Michael Chin has represented both multinational and Chinese clients on a range of public and private M&A transactions, as well as supporting fundraising and investments by both private equity and venture capital funds. He has advised clients across a variety of sectors, including TMT, life sciences, automotive and clean energy. |
| Richard Grasby | Charles Russell Speechlys | Maples & Calder | Private Client | Richard Grasby, a private wealth specialist, has also joined Charles Russell Speechlys Hong Kong as a partner. Richard Grasby was formerly at Maples and Calder in Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands, where he was responsible for the trusts and private wealth practice in Asia. |
| Mabel Lui | Withers | Winston & Strawn | Corporate and Commercial | Withers has appointed Mabel Lui as head of the Greater China Commercial Practice. Mabel Lui, who was previously Winston & Strawn’s head of corporate in Asia, has over 40 years’ experience on China related matters. She focuses on M&A, investment, capital markets, real estate and private wealth management matters. Before joining Winston & Strawn, Mabel Lui led DLA Piper’s Asian corporate team for 17 years. She is qualified in Hong Kong, England & Wales, New York, Victoria, Australia and Singapore. She speaks fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin. |
| Andrew MacGeoch | Berwin Leighton Paisner | Mayer Brown JSM | Hospitality & Leisure | Berwin Leighton Paisner has announced the appointment of partner Andrew MacGeoch as head of Asia real estate, hospitality and leisure. Andrew MacGeoch, a partner since 1999 and currently Asia head of hospitality & leisure group at Mayer Brown JSM, will join BLP’s Hong Kong office in the Autumn of 2017. He has extensive experience in dealing with infrastructure developments and mixed-use projects. He represents developers, owners, institutional investors, governments and statutory corporations and has particular experience in Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, Vietnam and Thailand. |
| Michael Nicklin | Gibson Dunn & Crutcher | Ropes & Gray | Banking & Finance | Michael Nicklin’s practice covers a range of debt financing transactions across the Asia-Pacific region, with particular experience in leveraged finance. He advises private equity sponsors and other sophisticated investors on complex, cross-border acquisition financings, including public to private transactions. He also has significant experience in special situations transactions, including direct lending, bridge financing, rescue financing, junior capital, convertible debt, restructurings and other even-driven financings. He has previously worked in the London and New York offices of Weil Gotshal & Manges and DLA Piper in London and Leeds. |
| Janney Chong | Reynolds Porter Chamberlain | Sidley Austin | Corporate Finance | Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has announced that Janney Chong has been appointed as a partner in the firm’s Hong Kong office. Janney Chong is a corporate finance specialist and has been a partner in the Hong Kong office of Sidley Austin since 2012, specialising in IPOs, fundraisings and mergers and acquisitions for mainland Chinese businesses. She joined Sidley Austin in 2004. She has substantial experience of representing issuers and underwriters of listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, as well as takeovers and mergers of Hong Kong-listed companies. She has advised on more than 30 Hong Kong IPOs during her career. She speaks fluent English and Mandarin. |
| Julia Gorham | Seyfarth Shaw | DLA Piper | Employment | Julia Gorham will lead the employment law team in the new office. Gorham is joining from her position as partner and head of the Asia employment law practice at DLA Piper. Her experience extends across all aspects of employment law in Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region more broadly. Gorham, who is England and Wales qualified, has previously worked for JP Morgan and before that spent over nine years with Allen & Overy. |
| Matthias Schemuth | DLA Piper | Ashurst | Finance & Projects | DLA Piper has announced that Matthias Schemuth has joined the finance & projects group as a partner in Hong Kong. Matthias Schemuth has over 20 years’ experience advising sponsors, developers, commercial banks, multilateral lending agencies and export credit agencies in relation to project and export credit finance transactions particularly in oil and gas, LNG, petrochemical, metal and mining sectors. His practice also focuses on international banking, commodity and trade structured finance and asset finance and leasing in emerging markets. He is qualified in England and Wales as well as in Hong Kong. In addition to English, he also speaks fluent German and basic French. |
| Michael Wong | Dechert | K&L Gates | Financial Services | Wong’s practice focuses on fund formation, fund investments and retail fund registration. In addition, he has extensive experience advising on financial services regulatory matters such as licensing, compliance, marketing and distribution of financial products, disclosure of shareholding interests and market misconduct. |
| Stephen Chan | Dechert | Cadwalder, Wickersham & Taft | Corporate | Dechert has appointed Stephen Chan as a partner in the corporate and securities group based in the Hong Kong office. He was previously a corporate partner with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Stephen Chan focuses his practice on advising on corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, takeovers, restructuring, initial public offerings, REIT listings, H share listings and general compliance matters. |
| Jane Ng | Stephenson Harwood | Cadwalder, Wickersham & Taft | Corporate | Stephenson Harwood has appointed Jane Ng as a partner in the corporate practice based in Hong Kong. Jane Ng has more than 20 years’ experience in a wide range of mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance and capital markets transactions. She has substantial experience in China related work – both inbound and outbound – and in acting for Chinese clients. She is admitted in both England & Wales and Hong Kong. She joins Stephenson Harwood from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. |
| Jeremy Cunningham | Reynolds Porter Chamberlain | Mayer Brown JSM | Corporate | Jeremy Cunningham specialises in large-scale complex M&A and private equity work, with a particular focus on the media, advertising and insurance industries. During his career, he has been based in London, Vietnam and Hong Kong. |
| John Chrisman | Clyde & Co | Dorset & Whitney | Corporate | John Chrisman is a corporate lawyer and has 28 years’ experience across six continents. He represents companies, financial institutions and investment banks on international capital market deals and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions. |
| Andrew Yang | Addleshaw Goddard | Goodwin | Corporate Finance | Andrew Yang’s practice includes advising on all aspects of M&A and commercial transactions throughout the Asian region.Andrew Yang, who has been practising in Asia since 2003, is qualified in New York and Hong Kong. |
| Friven Yeoh | Sidley Austin | O'Melveny & Myers | Disputes | Friven Yeoh is admitted to practice in England and Wales, Hong Kong, and is a registered foreign lawyer in Singapore. His languages include Cantonese Chinese and Mandarin Chinese. He advises clients in the resolution of high-stakes, complex business disputes and in multifaceted commercial litigation matters. He has advised multinational companies as well as those based in Asia, including China, in proceedings conducted under the arbitration rules of many arbitral centres, and sits as an arbitrator in international cases. He has also represented clients before the Securities and Futures Commission in regulatory and enforcement matters. Prior to joining Sidley, Yeoh was the managing partner at the Hong Kong office of another US law firm. |
| Lina Lee | Allen & Overy | Ashurst | Capital Markets | Lina Lee has significant experience advising large financial institutions and corporate clients on ECM related transactions including IPOs, block trades and rights issues as well as M&A. Lina Lee has been a partner at Ashurst since 2009 and is admitted to practice in Hong Kong, England and Wales. She is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. |
| Kathryn Sanger | Herbert Smith Freehills | Clifford Chance | International Arbitration | Kathryn Sanger has nearly 15 years’ experience of arbitration and litigation proceedings in Asia, particularly in joint venture and China-related proceedings. She can speak and read Mandarin fluently. After a training contract in London, she joined Clifford Chance in Hong Kong in 2002, rising to her current position of consultant at that firm. Sanger is admitted to practice in Hong Kong as well as England and Wales. |
| David Mallinson | Withers | Mayer Brown JSM | Hotel & Hospitality | David Mallinson specialises in the hotel and hospitality sector, representing clients on their transactions and developments in Hong Kong, China and across South-East Asia. He has in-house experience, having worked as regional counsel at Starwood Hotels and at World Sport Group. |
| Simon McKnight | Simmons & Simmons | Linklaters | Financial Market | Simon McKnight specialises in derivatives and structured products and has particular knowledge in credit derivatives and all aspects of advice requiring detailed technical analysis throughout Asia and the UK. His product knowledge covers equity, credit and commodity linked products in the OTC, loan and notes format. His most recent work has focused on corporate equity derivatives such as margin loans and collar financings. |
| Jonathan Chu | Stephenson Harwood | William W L Fan & Co | Intellectual Property | Jonathan Chu has extensive experience in all intellectual property matters, particularly contentious matters. |
| Doos Choi | Mayer Brown JSM | Ashurst | Banking & Finance | Doos Choi has extensive experience in multijurisdictional acquisition finance, investment grade and sub-investment grade corporate finance, distressed portfolio sales, and strategic debt investments. His sector experience includes real estate, healthcare, financial services, insurance, mining, and oil and gas. |
| Charles Allen | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | Sidley Austin | Dispute Resolution | Charles Allen is admitted in Hong Kong and England and Wales. He focuses on complex, commercial litigation, arbitration and investigations. He represents clients on a range of contractual and tortious disputes, as well as regulatory and other investigations. He is accredited as a mediator by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and is a member of the claims committee of the Hong Kong Law Society’s professional indemnity scheme. He is secretary to the ICC Hong Kong committee on arbitration, and a solicitor member of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. |
| Joyce Chan | Clyde & Co | DLA Piper | Financial Services | Joyce Chan advises financial services institutions and intermediaries on a broad range of regulatory and corporate matters. In addition, Joyce has significant experience in advising multinational insurance and reinsurance companies on a broad range of corporate and compliance matters such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, reorganisation, asset purchase, authorisation of products and establishment of compliance programs such as anti-money laundering, prevention of bribery, data protection and market conduct programs. Joyce Chan has also developed a financial regulatory practice for non-banking Fintech service providers, in particular in relation to e-payment services. |
| Martin Downey | Holman Fenwick Willan | Stephenson Harwood | Construction | Martin Downey who joins the firm’s Hong Kong office as partner and head of the Kong Kong construction practice. His practice spans commercial litigation, arbitration mediation and alternative dispute resolution, including regulatory and environmental issues. |
| Beijing | ||||
| Nicholas Song | Dechert | Vinson & Elkins | Corporate | Nicholas Song, who has a particular focus on the energy sector, is admitted to practice in England and Wales, New York and Singapore. |
| Kuala Lumpa | ||||
| Glynn Cooper | Herbert Smith Freehills | Herbert Smith Freehills | Corporate | Cross-border transaction specialist Glynn Cooper will be based in the firm’s newest office in Kuala Lumpur, due to open in May 2017. His practice covers M&A, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and the investment aspects of project developments. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales and Australia, and is a registered foreign lawyer in Malaysia. He joined Herbert Smith Freehills from a firm in London in 2012. |
| Shanghai | ||||
| Matthew Durham | Simmons & Simmons | Winston & Strawn | Employment | Matthew Durham has lived and worked in Shanghai since 1999 and has extensive experience advising international clients on labour, employment and corporate law issues in China. |
| Elliot Papageorgiou | Clyde & CO | Rouse | Intellectual Property | For the past 12 Elliot has built an intellectual property practice in the Asia Pacific, and especially China. Elliot Papageorgiou has practised intellectual property law on four continents since 1995 – first in Australia, then Europe and North America, and since 2005 in China. |
| Vincent Xu | Steohenson Harwood | Ince & Co | Shipping | Stephenson Harwood has appointed Vincent Xu as a partner in Shanghai, joining from Ince & Co. Vincent Xu has more than 15 years’ experience both in-house and in private practice. He has extensive knowledge of the shipping industry with a strong focus on non-contentious ship finance and energy matters. |
| Singapore | ||||
| Gavin Margetson | Berwin Leighton Paisner | Herbert Smith Freehills | Disputes | Gvain Margetson will lead the firm’s regional international arbitration hub in Singapore, where he has extensive experience. His experience includes high-value cross-border disputes and he spent more than a decade practising in Tokyo acting for a range of Japanese and international clients. Most recently, Margetson helped oversee Herbert Smith Freehills’ Bangkok office where he split his time between the Thai capital and Singapore. |
| James Clarke | BLP | BLP | Contentious Construction | BLP contentious construction partner James Clarke has moved from London to Singapore as a member of the firm’s regional arbitration team. |
| Cavinder Bull | Drew & Napier | Drew & Napier | CEO | Cavinder Bull has taken over as the chief executive of Singapore firm Drew & Napier, in succession to Davinder Singh SC. Davinder Singh remains with the firm as executive chairman. Cavinder Bull was called to the Bar in 1993, is an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and qualified as an attorney at law New York in 1996. He practised as a litigation associate with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York until late 1997 when he returned to Singapore and Drew & Napier. He was made a partner in 1998 and a director in May 2002. |
| John Forrester & Toby Stephens | HFW | HFW | Asia Pacific Shipping | HFW’s London partners, John Forrester and Toby Stephens, have joined the firm’s Asia Pacific shipping team in Singapore. John Forrester has 30 years’ experience in international ship, offshore and energy finance in Asia and Europe, acting for banks and export credit agencies on their shipping and offshore credit agreements and other marine finance products and for shipbuilders, ship owners, operators and investors on shipping and offshore related transactions. On the non-marine side, he advises on the provision of bank facilities to insurance companies, on trade finance and general banking deals. Toby Stephens is a member of HFW’s global Admiralty and crisis management team and specialises in risk and crisis management/emergency response in the marine and energy sectors. |
| Gerard Hekker | Duane Morris & Selvam | Sidley Austin | Corporate | Gerard Hekker has joined Duane Morris & Selvam as a director in the firm’s Singapore office and as a partner in Duane Morris in San Francisco. Previously a partner in Sidley Austin’s Singapore office, Gerad Hekker has worked in Asia for more than two decades. He is also a former counsel with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Singapore. Gerad Hekker concentrates his practice on cross-border capital markets, M&A and telecommunications, media and technology transactions and has particular experience in Indonesia and other ASEAN markets. He is admitted in California, as well as England and Wales and is a qualified foreign lawyer in Singapore. |
| jeremie Witt | CMS | CMS | Construction and Energy Disputes | CMS partner Jeremie Witt has been appointed to lead the firm’s infrastructure, construction and energy disputes team in Singapore and will relocate from the Dubai office. Jeremie Witt is admitted in England and Wales and Australia and holds Part II appearance rights with the DIFIC Courts in Dubai. He is an experienced advocate in complex disputes with experience before courts and arbitral tribunals. He joined the firm’s Dubai office in 2014 and advises on contentious and non-contentious construction, energy and infrastructure matters. He acts for purchasers, suppliers and consultants with a focus on disputes in the MENA and APAC regions. |
| Oommen Mathew, Iain Black and Team | DWF | Evershed Sutherland | Mixed | Eversheds Sutherland’s Singaporean managing partner Oommen Mathew will join DWF along with partner Iain Black, who was head of construction, infrastructure and energy Asia at Eversheds Sutherland. They join with associates Charis Tan and Kate Lan. Oommen Mathew has extensive experience as lead counsel representing local, regional and international clients in both the domestic courts and international arbitrations. His practice covers a wide spectrum of commercial and corporate matters acting for sovereigns, state trading companies and multi-nationals. Iain Black is a specialist arbitration and construction lawyer. He has been involved in drafting the consortium documentation for a variety of Asia’s landmark infrastructure and has been extensively involved in litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediations across Europe, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Sudan, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Indonesia. Earlier in his career he was senior partner at Masons in Hong Kong and set up Masons’ Singapore office. They are all England and Wales qualified. |
| Slew Kam Boon | Dechert | K&L Gates | Corporate | Singapore and English qualified Siew Kam Boon has joined the firm as a corporate partner based in Singapore. She was previously a partner at K&L Gates focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and emerging growth and venture capital. |
| Yu-Jin Tay & Team | Mayer Brown JSM | DLA Piper | Arbitration | International arbitration lawyer Yu-Jin Tay has joined Mayer Brown JSM as a partner in Singapore. Yu-JIn Tay joins with two arbitration associates who focus on international arbitration and was formerly at DLA Piper, where he served as co-chair of that firm’s international arbitration group from 2013 to 2016. Before 2013, Yu-Jin Tay was the Singapore-based head of Shearman & Sterling’s international arbitration practice in Asia. In addition to Singapore, Yu-Jin Tay has practised in London, Paris and Washington DC. He trained as a barrister at Fountain Court Chambers. |
| Sheena Jacob | Gowling WLG | Bird & Bird | Intellectual property | Gowling WLG has formed an exclusive association with JurisAsia LLC, a Singapore firm specialising in IP and corporate law. JurisAsia has been formed by a number of lawyers led by partner Sheena Jacob who is an IP specialist. Sheena Jacob is a former head of IP at Bird & Bird ATMD and is qualified to practise in Singapore, New York and England & Wales. |
| Anan Sivananthan | Bird & Bird | Creative Technology Ltd | Intellectual property | Bird & Bird has appointed Anan Sivananthan as a partner in the IP group, based in Singapore. Anan Sivananthan joins from Creative Technology Ltd where he was associate vice president and head of the global legal team. He has worked at Creative since 2000, having initially joined as director of legal services and subsequently been promoted to associate vice president in 2007. His particular experience lies in patent litigation; anti-counterfeiting; and IP management and monetisation; as well as trademark litigation and other high value IP dispute resolution matters in many countries. He has also handled many commercial disputes. Prior to working at Creative, Anan Sivananthan was an IP litigation associate and subsequently a partner at Drew & Napier LLC, a law firm in Singapore. He originally trained as a barrister and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1991. He subsequently returned to Singapore and called to the Singapore Bar in 1992. |
| Nicholas Lum | Ince & Co | Oon & Bazul | Disputes | Nicholas Lum's practice focuses on international trade and commodities, shipping and shipbuilding and general commercial disputes. Nicholas Lum has extensive experience in China, having previously worked for a global law firm in its Shanghai office. He will head up Ince & Co’s China practice in the Singapore office and divide his time between the Singapore and Shanghai offices. |
| Anthony McKenzie | Carey Olsen | Carey Olsen | Corporate | Carey Olsen has expanded its corporate practice in Asia with the relocation of partner Anthony McKenzie from its Cayman Islands office to Singapore. Anthony McKenzie focuses on regulated and unregulated investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and listings, joint ventures, secured and unsecured finance arrangements, preference share issues and capital market transactions. He was admitted to practice in the Cayman Islands in 2007, and in the British Virgin Islands, in 2014, and has been a partner at the firm since 2012. Before joining the firm he worked with Allen & Overy in London and Australia, and with Maples and Calder in Cayman. |
| Stephen Adams | Collas Crill | Bedell Cristin | Corporate & Commercial | Collas Crill has appointed Stephen Adams as a partner in its Singapore office. Stephen Adams has been practising offshore for some 20 years advising on a range of commercial cross border matters, including joint ventures, mergers, acquisition finance, asset and project finance, investment funds, alternative investments, private equity, and capital market transactions. He also has experience in trust and private client matters. He joins from Bedell Cristin where he led the Singapore office and was a senior member of the BVI practice area. Before this he founded BVI firm Barker Adams, following his role as corporate senior partner at Walkers in the BVI. He acts as a non-executive director of a number of hedge funds. |
| Samuel Kolehmainen | Watson Farley & Williams | Clifford Chance | Avaition finance | Watson Farley & Williams has welcomed new partner Samuel Kolehmainen to its aviation finance team in Singapore. Samuel Kolehmainen joins from the Singapore office of Clifford Chance where he was a senior associate before which he spent two years working in-house with an aircraft operating lessor in Ireland. He regularly advises lessors, lenders and borrowers on aircraft finance transactions. His experience includes acting for clients on commercial financings, export credit agency financings, operating leasing, aircraft sales, asset backed securitisations, as well as portfolio sales and financings. |
| Chia Ling Koh | Osborne Clarke | Bird & Bird | TMT | Osborne Clarke has launched a formal association with new Singapore-based firm, OC Queen Street. The team will initially focus on opportunities for clients in the digital business and fintech sectors across South-East Asia as well as offering cross-border advisory services for key sector clients. Chia Ling Koh, the first partner to join OC Queen Street, is a specialist in IT, data, and IP practice areas and regularly advises telecommunications companies, global IT business, internet search engines, and airlines in Singapore and the surrounding regions. |
| Yemi Tépé | Morrison & Foerster | Clifford Chance | Banking & Finance | Yemi Tépé is qualified in England and Wales, and advises banks and financial institutions, corporations, and private equity sponsors. Her practice focuses on Asia cross-border acquisitions and leveraged finance, public to private takeovers, debt structuring, and restructuring, syndicated lending, and subscription line financing. She has significant experience working on cross-border transactions across the South Asia region, Europe and Japan. |
| James Harris | Jones Day | Hogan Lovells | Infrastructure & Energy | James Harris joins the projects and infrastructure practice in Singapore, he is the former head of infrastructure and regional energy and resources of Hogan Lovells. He has more than 28 years’ experience and has advised on energy and infrastructure projects across a range of sectors in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, UK, Europe and Australia. His experience covers energy projects, including petrochemical plants, water, waste and transport related projects, as well as projects involving hotels, resorts, casinos, sporting stadia, and educational facilities. |
| Julien Reidy | Jones Day | Hogan Lovells | Projects & Infrastructure | Julien Reidy has been based in Asia for nearly a decade during which his practice has covered major projects in Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines. He has extensive experience advising governments, contracting agencies, multilaterals, project sponsors, and lenders on infrastructure projects across Asia, the Middle East, and the UK. He has significant experience in infrastructure and PPP in the power, transport and water and utilities sectors. |
| Alex Cull | Jones Day | Hogan Lovells | Energy | Alex Cull has 15 years’ experience in Asia covering corporate transactions, project development, operations, and financing in the oil and gas industry. He represents clients including national oil companies, private equity, traders, and financial institutions. He focuses on strategic transactions, joint operations, and commercialising gas through pipeline and LNG project development and offtake arrangements. |
| Myanmar | ||||
| Mark Livingston and Team | Dentons | Livingstons Legal | A team of five lawyers, led by Mark Livingston, resident partner, has joined Dentons Myanmar Limited from Livingstons Legal. | |
| Tokyo | ||||
| Lewis McDonald | Herbert Smith Freehills | Herbert Smith Freehills | Energy | Lewis McDonald has relocated to Herbert Smith Freehills’ Tokyo office after four years establishing the firm’s practice in South Korea. From Japan, he will maintain his practice of advising Korean and Japanese companies and will retain oversight of the firm’s energy practice in Seoul. He will continue to manage significant cross-border and international energy and resources projects. |
