Norton Rose law firm news

Clifford Chance, White & Case, Norton Rose, Mochtar Karuwin Komar, Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners, Wiriadinata & Saleh and Baker & McKenzie have advised on a US$1.2bn multi-sourced Shari’a compliant Islamic financing deal – the largest cross-border private sector Islamic financing into Indonesia to date.

A summary of deals information received by ALB this week.

Norton Rose Australia partner Michael Joyce has moved to the firm’s Tokyo office

A number of UK firms – including Clifford Chance and Herbert Smith – have promoted a slew of new partners in a renewed push to bulk up their China practices.

Revealing the winners at the 2011 ALB-Macquarie Bank Law Awards: which firms collected the honours this year?

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has hired Li Chen to join its Beijing global corporate group as of counsel.

Norton Rose Group has relocated Michael Wilton, a corporate finance partner, to Beijing from its Melbourne office.

The Gillard Government’s first budget has received a mixed reaction from industry and none more so than the legal profession.

Attorney-General Robert McClelland has announced new appointments to the International Legal Services Advisory Council (ILSAC).

The head of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Beijing office will be stepping down from the helm of the US firm this year to launch his political career with Singapore’s largest opposition party – the Worker’s Party – in the upcoming general elections to be held on 7 May 2011.

Ashurst has promoted three partners in the Middle East with effect from 1 May 2011. This is part of a larger round of global partnership promotions, numbering 12; up one from 11 last year.

Norton Rose has promoted banking of counsel Joanne Emerson-Taqi and corporate finance senior associate Dino Wilkinson to the firm’s global partnership in a 15-strong promotion round that includes seven females.

Norton Rose has created five new partners in the Asia-Pacific – with two promoted in Canberra, one in Shanghai, one in Singapore and one in Sydney.

The Norton Rose Group has added 15 partners across its global network, including three in Australia.

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.

A subsidiary of the second largest coal producer of Indonesia, Adaro Energy has inked a US$400m senior loan facility from a syndicate of 12 banks to refinance existing debts and capital expenditures. The loan secured has a maturity period of seven years – the longest tenor of any major financing to date in the Indonesian market.

Publicly-listed oil & gas services company Clough has appointed Nabarro Singapore to its legal panel as its key Asian counsel – an appointment which is the result of partner Glen Cheng’s prior relationship with the company.

London-based Hogan Lovells senior partner Andrew Carey will relocate to Singapore in April 2011 as part of the firm’s expansionist push to further develop its capital markets capabilities in the region.

Eight law firms across the country have exposed their environmental report card to the world in the inaugural Environmental Consumption of AusLSA Members report 2009/2010.

The Victorian State Government has thrown the renewable energy industry a curve ball, announcing that the planning control for new wind farm developments would now be handled by the relevant local council.