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SE Asia Appts: New partners galore at Amarchand

BY Vasundhara Chatterjee |

Two key laterals and more promotions than you can count mean its almost all AMSS in this week’s Southeast Asia appointments roundup.
Bakers recruits life sciences partner from DLA

BY ALB |

Baker & McKenzie has recruited life sciences partner Amanda Turnill, who joins the firm from DLA Piper.
Bakers advises CP All on mammoth Makro buy

BY ALB, Reuters |

Baker & McKenzie has advised Thailand’s biggest convenience store chain CP All on its $6.6 billion offer to buy cash-and-carry wholesaler Siam Makro Pcl from Dutch firm SHV Holdings, in what is the biggest Asia-Pacific M&A deal announced so far this year.
Bakers, Latham fuel Thaioil’s $1 bln offering

BY ALB |

Baker & McKenzie and Latham & Watkins have represented Thailand’s Thaioil on its offering of $1 billion dual-tranche senior unsecured fixed-rate notes to foreign institutional investors.
Bakers nabs Kim & Chang lawyer ahead of Seoul launch

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Baker & McKenzie has hired Seong Soo Kim as partner from Kim & Chang to bolster the firm’s banking and finance and Korea practices.
Japan: Bakers adds IP partner from Hogan Lovells

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Baker & McKenzie has expanded its IP capabilities in Japan with the hire of Kensaku Takase as a partner in its Tokyo office from Hogan Lovells.
Bakers applies for Seoul office

BY ALB |

Baker & McKenzie has become the latest international law firm to apply to Korean authorities to open an office in the Republic of Korea.
CC, Bakers assist PE fund launch

BY ALB |

Clifford Chance has advised Singapore’s Heliconia Capital Management, a Temasek-seeded fund manager, on its investment into a newly launched private equity fund managed by hedge fund Dymon Asia Capital, which is being represented by Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow.
Bakers advises Toyota Tsusho on PPR agreement

BY Kanishk Verghese |

The Tokyo and Paris offices of Baker & McKenzie have teamed up to advise Japanese conglomerate Toyota Tsusho Corporation on its purchase of a 29.8 percent stake in distribution company CFAO.
Bakers adds trio of partners for new financial year

BY ALB |

Baker & McKenzie has announced the promotion of three staff to the partnership in Australia.