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Immigration expert set to join Morgan Lewis from Bakers

BY Aparna Sai |

Immigration law specialist Vivien Yu will be joining Morgan Lewis & Bockius as a partner later this summer from Baker McKenzie, where she is currently a registered foreign lawyer. 
Bakers, Slaughters lead as Unilever buys GSK’s Indian Horlicks business for $3.8 bln

BY Aparna Sai, Reuters |

Baker McKenzie and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas have advised Unilever on its agreement to buy GlaxoSmithKline Horlicks nutrition business in India for $3.8 billion, with Slaughter and May and AZB & Partners representing the sellers.
CC, Shearman, Bakers star in Grimm Power’s $340 mln Thai IPO

BY Raj Gunashekar |

Shearman & Sterling, Clifford Chance and Kudun and Partners have represented greenfield plants-focused energy company B. Grimm Power on its $340 million initial public offering and share listing on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET).
Bakers, CC lead on sale of ABN Amro’s Asian, ME private banking business

BY Raj Gunashekar, Reuters |

Baker & McKenzie has advised private banking and asset management group LGT in its acquisition of ABN Amro’s private banking operations in Asia and the Middle East. Clifford Chance advised the seller.
Bakers, Latham advise on $300 mln SE Asia hospitality JV

BY Raj Gunashekar |

Latham & Watkins and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have advised PE firm Warburg Pincus on its $300 million hospitality joint venture with Vietnam’s largest PE firm VinaCapital, which was represented by Baker & McKenzie.
Bakers appoints new APAC chair, deputy chair

BY Chris Thomson |

Baker & McKenzie has appointed Gary Seib as its Asia Pacific regional council chair, while Ai Ai Wong takes on the role of deputy chair.
Sri Lanka defends seeking Bakers advice worth $2.3 mln

BY Ashima Ohri |

Sri Lanka’s prime minister has defended utilising the services of Baker & McKenzie that included helping draft new laws to assist in the island nation’s economic transformation, according to reports in local media.
Bakers guiding Sri Lanka through economic transformation

BY Ashima Ohri |

Baker & McKenzie is currently assisting the government of Sri Lanka with economic transformation on the island.
KWM, Bakers strongest legal brands in Asia-Pacific: survey

BY Ashima Ohri |

King & Wood Mallesons and Baker & McKenzie are the strongest law firm brands in the Asia-Pacific region, according to research firm Acritas, which also found that legal spend in the region is set to rise at double the rate of the global average.
Bakers appoints new MP in Yangon

BY Ashima Ohri |

Baker & McKenzie has relocated partner Jo Daniels from Brisbane to Myanmar and named her managing partner of its Yangon office.