Colin Ng law firm news

Since companies seeking to list on Singapore’s alternative stock exchange board, Catalist, have been required to comply with the new Listing Manual Section B, some of Singapore’s domestic law firms have been able to use their work as sponsors of the exchange to forge better relationships with clients.

US firm Duane Morris has secured approval from the Singapore Ministry of Law to launch a joint law venture (JLV) with local firm Arfat Selvam Alliance.

After making around 20 internal partner promotions this year, Zhong Lun Law Firm continues with its ambitious partnership growth. The firm has now taken on board two additional partners – Yao Pingping and He Wei – as lateral hires.

姚平平、何未两位曾在国际律所职业的律师近日加盟了中伦律师事务所担任合伙人。姚平平律师加盟中伦香港分所，何未律师加入北京总部。

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Harney Westwood & Riegels has boosted its Asian practice with three additions to its workforce in Hong Kong.

From October Singaporean lawyers will no longer have to follow fee guidelines for conveyancing transactions.

Colin Ng & Partners (CNP) has doubled the size of the partnership in its real estate and conveyancing practice group in just one month.

Law firms are dealing with more fee-recovery issues and some have been forced to delay staff salaries, or launch disputes against non-paying clients.

Singapore’s Colin Ng & Partners has added two new partners to its corporate and real estate practices, raising its partner numbers to 19. The firm has appointed Lee Kuen Yip in the real estate and conveyancing practice and Sam Kok Yin in the corporate & commercial practice.

Colin Ng & Partners has announced that former senior state counsel Glenn Knight will join the firm as a partner in its dispute resolution and FIRST (global financial crisis response team) groups.

Singapore-based law firm Colin Ng & Partners (CNP) and global professional services provider Tricor Singapore Pte Ltd will form a strategic joint venture, effective 1 September 2008, the companies said in a press release Friday.

One of Singapore’s largest firms, Drew & Napier, has signalled its intent to further expand its banking & corporate practice, bringing on board Marcus Chow as a director and Kenneth Chee as an associate director, the firm said in a press statement on Tuesday

Singapore full service firm Colin Ng & Partners has appointed Bill Jamieson to the partnership. Jamieson, who has been with the firm since 2004, heads the English law practice and funds practice groups

Singapore law firm Colin Ng & Partners has lost the co-head of its regional IP group, Ai-Leen Lim, to Bird & Bird, which has brought Lim on board in Hong Kong as a partner.

Singapore law firm Colin Ng & Partners has lost the co-head of its regional IP group, Ai-Leen Lim, to Bird & Bird, which has brought Lim on board in Hong Kong as a partner.

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Mallesons Stephen Jaques' long-standing relationship with Allco Finance Group paved the way for the firm to land the role as Allco's legal advisor on its A$575m Singapore REIT.

The run of REIT action continued for Colin Ng & Partners this month with the listing of the Allco Commercial REIT on the Singapore stock exchange.

Colin Ng & Partners has advised on Malaysia's largest ever REIT - the Starhill REIT which debuted on the Bursa Malaysia at the end of 2005.