Global law firm White & Case has announced the expansion of its investment funds practice in Tokyo with the additions of Sayako Shiraki as local partner and Hiroto Nakayama as counsel. Both were managing associates at Linklaters.

Global law firm White & Case has bolstered its investment funds offering in Tokyo with the addition of partner Eriko Sakata from Linklaters.

Magic Circle law firm Linklaters has bolstered its India-facing corporate offering by hiring private equity funds specialist Sayak Maity as a partner in Singapore from White & Case.

Singapore corporate boutique BTPLaw has hired Lynn Ariele Soh and Leeza Lee as partners. Soh was most recently a director at Eng & Co, the Singapore member firm of PwC Legal, while Lee was a managing associate at Linklaters’ Hong Kong office.

It has been barely a year since generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) entered the mainstream, and since then, it has swiftly and comprehensively captured the imaginations of business leaders and the public like no other emerging technology till date. Companies realise that if they don’t get on board now, they risk getting left behind.

International law firms operating in China have been mired in a crisis of confidence following a series of grim news. In the latest signal of market dismay, Magic Circle firms Linklaters and Clifford Chance trimmed associate headcounts in China and Hong Kong as a result of the weaker economic environment.

Law firms White & Case, Jones Day, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters, and Tsar & Tsai have represented the co-sponsors on the financing and development of the Hai Long Offshore Wind Power Project in Taiwan.

Indonesia’s TnP Law Firm has recruited M&A and banking and finance specialist Frans Sihasale as a partner in Jakarta from Widyawan & Partners, the local association firm of Linklaters.

Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance has hired M&A specialist Alex Bidlake as a partner in Hong Kong from Linklaters.

Magic Circle firm Linklaters has recruited international arbitration specialist Andrew Battisson as a partner in Singapore from Norton Rose Fulbright.