Lee & Lee law firm news

Following an exhaustive research process involving a record number of submissions from law firms and in-house legal departments this year, ALB is proud to announce the finalists for the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2011, the most important event on SE Asia's legal calendar.

Norton Rose, Hogan Lovells, WongPartnership and Ashurst have all landed leading roles on the world’s largest sport facilities infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) to date.

Joyce Norcini has been appointed as Nokia Siemens Network's new general counsel. Norcini, who will join the company in early August, comes from HP where she was Europe, Middle East and Africa general counsel.

Pinsent Masons and its Singapore ally MPillay have converted their successful three-year old association agreement into a formal practice which will target the local dispute resolution market

Baker & McKenzie International has strengthened its Asia-Pacific practice with new elections to partnership and making recent lateral hires to its member firms in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Singapore's Lee & Lee has added four new associates to its corporate division in response to the growing demand for capital markets, M&A and privatisation work, according to the firm.

As its 10th anniversary approaches, Chengdu-headquartered Tahota has expanded its national network with two new locations - Dalian and Chongqing.

总部设于成都的泰和泰律师事务所近期已获准在重庆设立分所。重庆分所是继大连分所后，该所于今年设立的第二家分支机构。

Allen & Gledhill, Drew & Napier, Rajah & Tann, and WongPartnership have scooped the most nominations as finalists in the ten Firms of the Year categories in this year’s ALB SE Asia Law Awards.

Singapore-based Stamford Law has reeled in a trio of new hires from local competitors this month – Wendy Tan, Richard Tan and real estate specialist Richard Tan Ming Kirk.

Energy & resources is something of a barometer for lawyers and firms in Asia trying to gauge their success in overcoming the effects of the global downturn.

Singapore's Central Chambers and China's largest firm by headcount, Dacheng have formed a JV designed to capture clients expanding to India and China.

Infrastructure has long been touted as the cure-all sector that will spark a new period of prosperity for law firms. But are expectations now running too high?

Singapore is set to join Australia, Hong Kong and England in requiring lawyers to undertake mandatory continuing legal education, while overseas-qualified lawyers no longer have to complete a compulsory course to practise locally.

White & Case’s Singapore managers are probably wishing they had their size 10s handy to squash energy partner Brad Roach’s defection – along with an associate – to rival international firm Lovells.

Singapore's step to liberalise the legal services market and create a more competitive market finds wide support amongst law firms in the region, but some warn it will worsen the already crippling shortage of local talent.

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

ALB is proud to announce the finalists for this year's SE Asia Deals of the Year Awards, which will be held at the Marina Mandarin in Singapore on 2 June

Lovells Lee & Lee has signed off two deals for its client, the Singapore branch of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich (RZB), worth a combined total of US$400m.

The ability to generate a headline is not always a good thing. But the following 100 lawyers from around the Asia-Pacific region have managed to do just that over the last 12 months