DLA Piper has hired John Viverito and Myles Hankin from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, and Joseph Bauerschmidt from Jones Day, as partners in its corporate group in Singapore. The three had worked together at Jones Day previously.

Estranged brothers Cyril and Shardul Shroff have decided to split the 98-year-old Indian law firm Amarchand Mangaldas into two new firms, each controlling one of the legacy firm's Mumbai and Delhi regions, according to a report in Indian newspaper Economic Times. The split is expected to come into effect on April 1.

Allen & Overy has boosted its finance practice in the ASEAN region by relocating partner Matthew Hebburn from Hong Kong to Singapore.

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Hogan Lovells has hired Samantha Campbell, the head of Gide Loyrette Nouel’s Vietnam practice, as the head of its own Vietnam offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has hired M&A and capital markets specialist Robson Lee as a partner in Singapore from Shook Lin & Bok.

An Indian cabinet minister has asked the country’s primary foreign intelligence agency to investigate a “link” between Allen & Overy, which is representing Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and British Gas (BG) before an arbitration tribunal, and the presiding arbitrator of that tribunal, the Indian Express reported.

UAE law firm Hadef & Partners has promoted Tim Watkins and Melissa Quai Currie to its partnership in the Dubai office.

Al Tamimi & Company has hired Scott Lambert as regional head of construction and infrastructure from Australian law firm Holding Redlich.

Abdulaziz Al-Yaqout, the former regional managing partner of DLA Piper, has set up a law firm called Meysan Partners with former Carlyle MENA GC Bader El-Jeaan. The firm has opened an office in Kuwait.