Indian law firm Kochhar & Co. has hired Faizal Latheef as corporate partner in its Dubai office from Baker & McKenzie Habib Al Mulla.
Latheef focuses his practice on corporate and commercial law and has over 15 years of experience advising on foreign investment, joint ventures, M&A, corporate restructuring and employment matters in the Middle East.
With the addition of Latheef Kochhar’s Dubai office, which launched last year, now has five partners.
Global law firm Ashurst has announced the appointment of Teruma Naito as a partner in its projects and energy transition (PET) practice in Tokyo. Naito joins from leading Japanese firm Anderson Mori & Tomotsune.
Indonesian law firm AVYA Law has appointed Noor M Aziz as partner to head its corporate, commercial, and business transactions practice group, marking the firm's third partner hire since July.
Hong Kong law firm PC Woo & Co. has appointed two new managing partners: Litigator Calvin Chow, who returns after a one-year stint at offshore firm Harneys, and Gary Wong, a long-standing corporate partner at the firm.