Andrews Kurth (Middle East) DMCC has hired energy and infrastructure lawyer Patricia Tiller as a partner in its Dubai office from Baker Botts.
Tiller has worked on projects including an offshore LNG regasification project, a $3 billion Dubai metro project, and has represented Kuwait Gulf Oil Company on issues arising under a joint operating agreement in the Saudi Arabia–Kuwait Neutral Zone.
Prior to Baker Botts, Tiller worked with K&L Gates, Allen & Overy and Allens Arthur Robinson.
One Essex Court, a commercial set of barristers' chambers in London, has announced that Paul Tan, former partner and head of arbitration for Asia at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, has joined its ranks as an international counsel and arbitrator.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells has hired international arbitration expert Rob Palmer as a partner from rival Ashurst to boost its dispute resolution practice in Southeast Asia.
Anglo-German law firm CMS has strengthened its Hong Kong funds practice with the hire of Helen Wang as a partner from Mayer Brown, where she was a counsel.