Latham and Watkins and AZB & Partners have advised French energy giant Total SA on its $865 million purchase of a 37.4 percent stake in Indian gas distribution company Adani Gas, which was represented by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Clifford Chance.

Bonnie Chan, a capital markets partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Hong Kong office for more than nine years, is returning to the city’s stock exchange as the head of its listing department. Chan will be succeeding David Graham, who is set to retire this year.

Singaporean boutique Aquinas Law Alliance has hired corporate lawyers Cephas Yee and Joshua Tan as partners and named Lim Kok Meng, the firm’s co-founder of head of corporate, as joint managing partner.

A partner at Mayer Brown’s London office has rejected his inclusion in a Chambers and Partners 2020 ranking, calling on other male lawyers included in the list to follow suit until a greater number of female lawyers are recognized.

Hill Dickinson has become the first law firm in Hong Kong to successfully obtain an order from a mainland Chinese court for interim measures in aid of an arbitration administered by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas’ legaltech incubator, Prarambh, believed to be India’s first, has announced the winners of its first cohort – JRTC Intern, Leegality and LegalMind.

The Indonesia Financial Services Authority (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan – “OJK”) enacted OJK Regulation No. 14/POJK.04/2019 (“POJK 14/2019”) concerning Amendment to OJK Regulation No. 32/POJK.04/2015 concerning Capital Increase of Public Companies with Pre-Emptive Rights. Interestingly, POJK 14/2019 regulates the provisions regarding public company’s increase of capital without rights issue (“Non-Rights Issue”) that previously governed under OJK Regulation No. 38/POJK.04/2014 concerning Capital Increase of Public Companies without Pre-Emptive Rights and also revokes such regulation. As a result, rules on increase of capital, whether with rights issue or Non-Rights Issue, are now regulated under POJK 14/2019.

Harrison Clark Rickerbys (HCR), a law firm based in the UK’s West Midlands, has entered into a collaboration agreement with boutique outfit India Law Alliance (ILA) to meeting the needs of their clients in the UK-India corridor.

As anti-government protesters fought pitched battles with police in Hong Kong streets last week, a group of bankers in another part of the city were busy taking in billions for the public float of the Asia unit of the world’s largest brewer.

The sixth edition of the ALB Indonesia Law Awards, held at the Grand Hyatt Jakarta, saw the biggest names of the industry grace the event.