Holman Fenwick & Willan law firm news

There has been the biggest dislocation in the shipping market for the past 25 years, as the surge in activity in prices, chartering, futures and trading in the first half of 2008, gave way to a dramatic slump in the second half of the year and in to 2009

Holman Fenwick Willan has announced the opening of a Perth office. The office will be led by new recruit Julian Sher, mostly recently at the bar but also a former managing partner of the Corrs office in Perth.

Middletons has ramped up its energy and resources expertise with the appointment of former Johnson Winter & Slattery partner Fiona Melville.

International firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has poached Robert Desmond from Middletons and plans to open a Perth office.

Hadiputrano, Hadinoto & Partners, Soemadipradja & Taher, Holman Fenwick Willan and Freshfields have advised on a landmark cash and share swap tri-merger involving three public-listed companies. The deal has created one of the biggest global players in coal and has led to the first-ever listing of an Indonesian coal miner on the LSE main board.

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.

Advised by Skadden, Milbank Tweed and Sidley Austin, Titan Petrochemicals has successfully issued US$315m senior notes.

石油贸易及船运公司泰山石化集团近日发行价值3.15亿美元的优先票据。 此次交易由世达，美国美邦以及盛德国际律师事务所提供法律服务。

Stephenson Harwood has made its ninth lateral hire of 2010 after adding former Holman Fenwick partner Dirk Janssen to its Singapore office.

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Sydney’s attempt to take a bite out of the Asian arbitration and dispute resolution market should not worry local law firms in Hong Kong, according to one of the lawyers involved in establishing the new international arbitration centre in Sydney.

Sydney’s attempt to take a bite out of the Asian arbitration and dispute resolution market should not worry local law firms in Singapore, according to one of the lawyers involved in establishing the new international arbitration centre in Sydney.

As the industry enters the New Year with a renewed sense of optimism, ALB singles out ten firms that are set to have a big 2010

Ince & Co has transferred Denys Hickey to its Singapore office citing an increase in demand for arbitration services and oil & gas activity in the Lion City.

Holman Fenwick Willan has broadened its reach in the Middle East by establishing alliances in both Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia.

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There has been the biggest dislocation in the shipping market for the past 25 years, as the surge in activity in prices, chartering, futures and trading in the first half of 2008, gave way to a dramatic slump in the second half of the year and in to 2009

Although trade volumes and financing work remain at low levels, maritime and shipping law firms in Asia aren’t necessarily thrown by the stormy weather.