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Lateral hires

NAME

LEAVING

GOING TO

PRACTICE

LOCATION

POSITION

Cheah Chiew Lan

ZICO Law

KDJLaw

Intellectual property

Kuala Lumpur

Partner

Timothy Franklyn

N/A

Tatva Legal

Corporate finance

Bengaluru

Partner

Jesse Gillespie

Sullivan & Cromwell

Morrison & Foerster

Corporate

Tokyo

Partner

Eiji Kobayashi

Norton Rose Fulbright

Paul Hastings

Corporate

Tokyo

Partner

Dan Matsuda

Jones Day

DLA Piper

Energy

Tokyo

Partner

Catherine McBride

Deutsche Bank

Latham & Watkins

White collar defense and investigations

Hong Kong

Partner

Brian McKenna 

Debevoise & Plimpton

Mayer Brown JSM

Corporate and securities

Hong Kong

Partner

Ian Roebuck

Allen & Overy

Mayer Brown JSM

Banking and finance

Singapore

Partner

Kayal Sachi

Allen & Overy

Mayer Brown JSM

Banking and finance

Singapore

Partner

Lee Taylor

Clifford Chance

King & Spalding

Corporate/M&A

Singapore

Partner

Kaoru Umino

Jones Day

DLA Piper

Finance and projects

Tokyo

Partner

Jack Wang

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Allen & Overy

Corporate/M&A

Shanghai

Partner

Henry Wheare

Hogan Lovells

Nixon Peabody CWL

Intellectual property

Hong Kong

Partner

Guna Selan Marian

Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism (MDTCC)

KDJLaw

Intellectual property and technology

Kuala Lumpur

Enforcement Adviser 

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Promotions

NAME

FIRM

PRACTICE

PROMOTION

LOCATION

Hiroki Sugita

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

M&A and private equity

Partner

Tokyo

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