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Maples and Calder poaches Harney’s Hong Kong head to strengthen BVI practice

BY Pamela koh |

Maples and Calder has laterally hired Harney Westwood & Riegels’ head of Hong Kong office to co-lead the firm’s British Virgin Islands (BVI) practice in Asia.
Tokyo: Baker & McKenzie appoints ex-ministry of foreign affairs official as counsel

BY Pamela koh |

Baker & McKenzie GJBJ Tokyo Aoyama Aoki Koma Law Office has hired Japanese ministry of foreign affairs senior official Junko Suetomi as counsel – to expand its cross-border dispute resolution capabilities with an “insider’s” viewpoint.
Shearman & Sterling, Amarchand restructure US-listed Indian cement-maker

BY Pamela koh |

Shearman & Sterling represented Fortune 500 Indian metals powerhouse – the Aditya Birla Group –in the restructuring of its cement business (ranked the ninth largest in the world).
Hong Kong: A&O partner to head APAC corporate practice

BY Pamela koh |

Allen & Overy has relocated London partner Gary McLean to Hong Kong to head the firm’s Asia-Pacific corporate practice.
Norton Rose, Hogan Lovells, Ashurst land roles on world’s largest sports facility PPP

BY Pamela koh |

Norton Rose, Hogan Lovells, WongPartnership and Ashurst have all landed leading roles on the world’s largest sport facilities infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) to date.
Singapore: top spot for international arbitration

BY Pamela koh |

Singapore is fast becoming a centre of choice for international arbitrators seeking neutral ground, as the significant increase in international cases involving non-Singaporean companies being heard in the Lion City shows.
Singapore International Arbitration Centre appoints new deputy chairman

BY Pamela koh |

Leading international dispute resolution centre – the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) – has announced senior counsel Cavinder Bull will be the new deputy chairman of the SIAC board of directors, effective from 1 October 2010.
Clifford Chance wins favour with Asian logistics giant

BY Pamela koh |

Asia’s largest diversified trading company Noble Group has retained Clifford Chance for the second time this year – and the third time in less than 12 months – in a dual-tranche debt issue valued at US$750m.
WongPartnership, Freehills win competitive bid for record PE deal

BY Pamela koh |

Singapore firm WongPartnership and Freehills have acted for private equity firms Carlyle Group and TPG Capital in their successful takeover battle for private hospitals operator and pathology provider Healthscope.
Hogan Lovells, Skadden, Latham advise on US$3.5bn Islamic finance deal

BY Pamela koh |

Hogan Lovell, Latham & Watkins and Skadden acted on a US$3.5bn murabaha financing deal by Qatari Diar Finance to Barwa City Real Estate – the largest murabaha financing deal of its kind to date.