HWL Ebsworth has announced the appointment of David Guthrie as a partner in its Melbourne insurance team. Guthrie was previously at Norton Rose Fulbright.

One of the 14 Clayton Utz partners who defected to Allen & Overy in 2010 will be returning to the fold, Clutz has announced.

White & Case has advised Abu Dhabi’s Ruwais Power Company and its sponsors on the issuance of $825 million 6 percent senior secured bonds due 2036, with Latham & Watkins advising the joint lead managers.

K&L Gates has added two new partners, Lian Yok Tan and Nicholas Hanna, to its Singapore office. Energy partner Tan joins from White & Case, while corporate/M&A specialist Hanna arrives from Watson, Farley & Williams.

K&L Gates has made three new lateral partner hires in its Australian offices.

Integrated Legal Holdings has announced an expansion into the corporate advisory and wealth management space, a move which is described by the company as “highly complementary and synergistic with [our] existing legal businesses.”

Nigel Binnersley and Kristi Swartz have left Blank Rome to join Bryan Cave as partners in the firm’s Hong Kong office.

Clifford Chance will relocate Paris project finance partner Ross Howard to Tokyo in September this year, as it looks to strengthen that practice area in the Asia Pacific.

Howse Williams Bowers has hired banking and finance partner Jonathan Silver from Norton Rose Fulbright’s Hong Kong office.

Wong & Partners has represented Malaysia's BIMB Holdings Bhd on its $884 million purchase of a 49 percent stake in Bank Islam, the country's oldest and largest standalone Islamic bank, from the Dubai Financial Group and Lembaga Tabung Haji.