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Weil Gotshal recruits PE partner from Latham in HK

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired private equity partner Tim Gardner from Latham & Watkins in the firm’s Hong Kong office.
NRF brings new capital markets partner on board in HK

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Norton Rose Fulbright has hired corporate and capital markets lawyer David Johnson as a partner in its Hong Kong office.
Dubai: Bennett Jones partner joins Pinsent Masons as corp head

BY Karuna Jainpalli |

Pinsent Masons has hired Osama Hassan from Canadian firm Bennett Jones and named him its new corporate head for the Middle East. He will be based in the Dubai office.
Partner promotion for Eversheds in Tunisia

BY Karuna Jainpalli |

Eversheds' Tunisian firm has promoted of counsel Emna Louati to its partnership.
KL: Zul Rafique welcomes corporate partner from Tay

BY Karuna Jainpalli |

Malaysian law firm Zul Rafique & Partners has hired David Lee Lai Huat as a partner in its corporate finance group in Kuala Lumpur from Tay & Partners.
Milbank strengthens corporate, capital markets practices in HK

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has bolstered its securities offering in Asia with the hire of corporate and capital markets partner David Kuo in Hong Kong.
Paul Hastings, Kim & Chang on Hyundai Glovis’ $1.1 bln share sale

BY Kanishk Verghese, Reuters |

Paul Hastings and Kim & Chang have advised the placement agents on Hyundai Motor Co’s chairman and son’s $1.1 billion sale of shares in logistics firm Hyundai Glovis Co.
Egypt's SODIC says plans about 2.3 bln Egyptian pounds in investments in 2015

BY Reuters |

SODIC, Egypt's third-largest listed property group, plans about 2.3 billion Egyptian pounds ($301.64 million) in new investments in 2015, it said in a statement on Monday.
Oman's United Finance to consider merger approach from Bank Nizwa

BY ALB |

Oman's United Finance Co said on Wednesday that Bank Nizwa had approached it with a proposal for a strategic merger.
Travelex and UAE Exchange to merge and list in Abu Dhabi

BY Stanley Carvalho |

Foreign currency exchange firm Travelex will be merged with money transfer company UAE Exchange and listed in Abu Dhabi by early on in 2017, new owner Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty said on Thursday.