Stephenson Harwood has three new partners in its Hong Kong office, after promoting aviation finance specialist Simon Wong and commercial disputes lawyer Phillip Rompotis to its partnership, and hiring dispute resolution specialist Giovanna Kwong from SJ Berwin.

White & Case has promoted 11 of its lawyers to local partnership across its offices worldwide, including capital markets lawyer Seiji Matsuzoe in Tokyo.

Ropes & Gray and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto are advising Bain Capital on its offer to buy all outstanding shares of Macromill Inc, a Japanese online market research company, for 51.4 billion yen ($501 million).

Howse Williams Bowers has hired disputes lawyer Andrew Kinnison as a partner in Hong Kong.

With Myanmar’s new civilian government introducing two additional bidding rounds for lucrative onshore and offshore oil and gas blocks this year as well as passing its new telecoms law, Myanmar looks set to spur economic growth and transform its society. However, delays in crucial mining reforms could make the country lose some of its lustre, finds Kanishk Verghese. With additional reporting by Melanie Burton of Reuters

Bingham McCutchen and Squire Sanders have advised Japan’s Kuraray Co on its purchase of DuPont’s glass-laminating and vinyls business for $543 million.

Korean law firm Bae, Kim & Lee has hired Jong Baek Park, former managing partner of Apex LLC, as a partner in Seoul.

Howse Williams Bowers has hired regulatory and compliance expert Jill Wong as a partner at its Hong Kong office.

Singapore’s WongPartnership has entered into an alliance with Malaysian law firm Foong & Partners, which will allow both firms to capitalise on the growing number of cross-border investment opportunities between Singapore and Malaysia.

Shanghai-headquartered AllBright Law Offices is set to open its doors in Hong Kong, its first office outside mainland China, after receiving approval from the Law Society of Hong Kong.