Berwin Leighton Paisner law firm news

Berwin Leighton Paisner managing partner Tom Budgett plans to expand the firm’s Singapore practice to four times its current size by mid-2012 – a plan that seems to be on track with new secondments flying in from London in addition to the six lawyers from Holman Fenwick & Willan due to join BLP by the first quarter of 2011.

The Singapore office of Holman Fenwick & Willan has been dealt a blow as its head of corporate finance leaves the firm and takes with him five other lawyers – including one partner –across to the Singapore office of English firm Berwin Leighton Paisner.

Asia will undergo infrastructure and arbitration booms in the next ten years and the expanding market has room to accommodate more foreign law practices.

Kensington Swan has sent a team of five people from its Auckland and Wellington offices to staff the firm’s new branch in Abu Dhabi

New Zealand’s Kensington Swan is all set to open its doors in Abu Dhabi – but where will the work come from?

As the Singapore legal market moves quickly toward liberalisation, local firms are eyeing regional markets as the next source of growth

Corrs Chambers Westgarth has welcomed seven new lawyers to the firm.

ALB is proud to announce the finalists for this year's Australasia Law Awards, which will be held at the Westin Hotel in Sydney on 15 May

Two international law firms decided that January was a prime time to take their first step into Asia, but both went against following the China route into Hong Kong, Shanghai or Beijing, as many have recently done, and instead chose to set up shop in Singapore.