Dentons has added two partners to its Doha office by promoting corporate and commercial expert Zaher Nammour to its partnership, and also relocating construction specialist Andy Jones from Milton Keynes as head of the dispute resolution and construction team in Qatar.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd said it would contest $6 billion in punitive damages imposed by a jury in the United States in a case that accused Japan's largest drugmaker of concealing cancer risks associated with its Actos diabetes drug.

Papua New Guinea energy company Oil Search Ltd launched a fight on Friday to contest French oil giant Total SA's purchase of a 40 percent stake in PNG's biggest undeveloped gas field.

Howse Williams Bowers has hired family law expert Stacey Devoy and disputes lawyer Alison Scott as partners in Hong Kong.

Eversheds has moved two senior lawyers, partner Rod Bundy and Of Counsel Loretta Malintoppi, to its Singapore office from Paris in order to facilitate the quick-growing market for arbitration and international law across Asia.

Until a few years ago there was just one contender for the role of arbitration heavyweight in Asia. Now Singapore, named the most popular Asian seat in the 2010 International Arbitration Survey, is seriously challenging Hong Kong’s title. Few in the arbitration field can fail to be impressed by Singapore’s recent meteoric rise in the world of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), few except perhaps Hong Kong, which now feels its crown of Asian arbitration champion slipping away. Singapore’s rise has been as impressive as it has been unsurprising: a proactive government, proximity to up-and-coming economies like India and the Southeast Asian region and some very positive perceptions have combined to turn the island into a formidable arbitration force.