Asian Development Bank law firm news

Mongolia’s mining industry is taking off as projects involving state-owned enterprises and corporate investments fuel market activity, according to Hogan Lovells head of infrastructure and project finance Asia, James Harris.

Governments in the region are investing in infrastructure projects to stimulate activity, yet just how much of this stimulus is now translating into business for law firms?

Encouraged by the Central Government, PRC banks are back with a vengeance and eager to lend

受到一系列国家经济刺激政策的影响，商业银行信贷进入了一轮快速投放期。一些律师事务所近期观察到银行贷款项目数量明显上升的征兆，银行与金融业律师也逐渐忙碌起来。

Watson, Farley & Williams has again boosted its Singapore office only a few weeks after the appointment of former Norton Rose finance lawyer Josh Clarke

The Hong Kong office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has recently witnessed a flurry of activity as a result of an increasing number of loan transactions in the region.

Grandall Beijing office has been engaged by Asian Development Bank in a technical assistance project with China Clean Development Mechanism Fund.

Whilst interest in acquiring Asian targets or Asian assets has not waned in light of the global financial crisis, particularly in emerging markets such as Vietnam and Cambodia, it is clear that the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape is shifting.

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Asian Development Bank's general counsel, Arthur Mitchell, will step back into private practice as a senior counsel with White & Case in Tokyo in September of this year.

DLA Piper has promoted corporate and commercial lawyer Giovanni Marino (pictured) to partner.

White & Case, Allen & Overy and Latham & Watkins have worked in tandem to help close the groundbreaking US$2.6bn financing of the greenfield Tangguh LNG project in Indonesia.

Baker & McKenzie's Sydney office has played a leading role in the global firm's winning of a leading environment award.

The New York office of Baker & McKenzie has hired former Asian Development Bank general counsel Barry Metzger.

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's growth in Asia has continued unabated with two more senior hires. Gigi Cheah and Justin Davidson have joined the transatlantic firm as partners to head its Information Technology/Intellectual Property team in Asia.

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's growth in Asia has continued unabated with two more senior hires.

Only six short months after Coudert Brothers' Bangkok office hired an 11-lawyer team from the now defunct Freshfields Thai operation, the New York firm has suffered its own loss of a six-lawyer team from the region.

Only six short months after Coudert Brothers' Bangkok office hired an 11-lawyer team from the now defunct Freshfields Thai operation, the New York firm has suffered its own loss of a six-lawyer team.

Baker & McKenzie's corporate and commercial group in Hong Kong has acted for Shenzhen Credit Orienwise, China's largest privately owned credit guarantor, on the sale of a minority stake in the company to Asian Development Bank.

China's absorption of foreign direct investment has been described as "just as scary as terror". Are China's neighbours afraid?