Jones Day has hired Maxwell (Mac) Fox as a partner in the firm's intellectual property practice in Tokyo from Ropes & Gray.
Fox represents clients in the electronics, computer sciences and life sciences industries in patent disputes against competitors and patent assertion entities. He also assists clients with strategy licensing programs and the negotiation of license agreements.
Prior to Ropes & Gray, Fox worked with Paul Hastings in Tokyo.
Indonesia’s rapidly proliferating legal market has a new entrant as tax and trade attorney Riza Buditomo leaves the partnership at Armand Yapsunto Muharamsyah & Partners (AYMP) to launch Anagata Law Firm, which will focus on corporate, commercial, trade and tax work.
Three partners of Singapore’s Oon & Bazul, led by former commercial arbitration head Suresh Divyanathan, have left the firm to set up a new disputes-focused law firm called Dauntless Law Chambers.
Singapore-based law firm Helmsman has launched new intellectual property (IP) and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice groups with the appointment of Basil Lee as associate director.