Drew & Napier has opened an intellectual property office in Hanoi, Vietnam under the name of Drewmarks.
The new office will handle all aspects of trademark, patent, copyright and design registration work.
Drew & Napier currently has the largest IP practice in Singapore, with the department accounting for 20 to 25 percent of all patents filed in the country.
Indonesia’s rapidly proliferating legal market has a new entrant as tax and trade attorney Riza Buditomo leaves the partnership at Armand Yapsunto Muharamsyah & Partners (AYMP) to launch Anagata Law Firm, which will focus on corporate, commercial, trade and tax work.
Three partners of Singapore’s Oon & Bazul, led by former commercial arbitration head Suresh Divyanathan, have left the firm to set up a new disputes-focused law firm called Dauntless Law Chambers.
Singapore-based law firm Helmsman has launched new intellectual property (IP) and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice groups with the appointment of Basil Lee as associate director.