Nagashima, Ohno & Tsunematsu (NO&T), Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (MHM), Nishimura & Asahi (N&A) and Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (AM&T) have all indicated expansions and secondments into Asia as Japanese businesses shift from domestic markets and go regional.
Indian firm Khaitan & Co has gained three new partners from rival firms
Former academic and public officer PK Agrawal joins Indian firm Khaitan & Co as partner in charge of real-estate
Indian firms Amarchand & Mangaldas and Luthra & Luthra have helped the Indian government sell off its US$1.8bn equity stake in the country’s largest energy company, NPTC.
Khaitan & Co has lured Manas Kumar Chaudhuri from rival J Sagar Associates (JSA) to head the firm’s competition practice.
More players, more sophistication
Allen & Overy will be sending a lawyer to its Indian 'best friend' Trilegal, to strengthen relations between the two firms.
After seeing its largest listing last week–the US$625m institutionalized IPO of Adani Poweryet another sizeable deal has closed on the Indian capital markets, the US$140m qualified institutional placement offered by Punj Lloyd (PL).
Despite predictions that liberalising the legal market would see India’s relatively smaller firms compete with stronger–resourced foreign firms, AZB partner Abhijit Joshi said the merger would have occurred regardless.
Amid growing opposition and unrest in India's legal community, Indian law firms' fee income will be taxed as part of the government's annual budget changes.
J Sagar Associates (JSA), India's sixth largest law firm by headcount, has subsumed Bangalore-based boutique law firm M&C Partners.
The votes are in, the numbers crunched, the data weighted, collated and tallied. And the results have given some interesting findings.
由《亚洲法律杂志》策划并组织的２００９年度亚太地区以及中东地区法律市场最佳雇主的调查活动于近日圆满结束。在中国区，十家国内和国际著名律师事务所脱颖而出，被业内人士评选为本年度“最佳雇主”。
India's legal market prevents foreign law firms opening, but is continuing to reap the benefits - including more work and increased salaries - from the tie-in with international firms eager to maintain a presence in its legal market.
An overhaul in foreign investment regulations for real estate at the beginning of 2006 has caused a rapid influx of investors eager to participate in India's growth story
Indian lawyer Srinivas Parthasarathy has made the move from the Mumbai office of leading local Indian firm J Sagar & Associates to Allen & Overy's India group based in the firm's Singapore joint venture office, Allen & Overy shook Lin & Bok
Indian lawyer Srinivas Parthasarathy has made the move from the Mumbai office of leading local Indian firm J Sagar & Associates to Allen & Overy's India group based in the firm's Singapore joint venture office, Allen & Overy Shook Lin & Bok.
Inside this special report: Foreign investment brings local legal windfall; India prepares to open its doors; LPO all the go; In-house perspective: entertainment Network India; Shining India story stresses family ties
After a record-making 2006, capital markets lawyers have burst into 2007 running, as the goals of local companies hungry for capital meet with eager global investors
Though the Indian IPO market has taken a recent blow from falls in the country's stock markets, no one doubts the market is waiting to take off again. ALB spoke to some of the key firms cornering this lucrative market to find out just how they are winning business.