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.
Asia will undergo infrastructure and arbitration booms in the next ten years and the expanding market has room to accommodate more foreign law practices.
Allen & Gledhill and Baker & Mckenzie have acted on the acquisition of Temasek's entire stake in Fraser and Neave – a leading food and beverage company in Singapore and Malaysia – by Kirin, worth US$987m. The acquisition marks Kirin's first major investment in Singapore.
Cambridge law firm Taylor Vinters has set its expansionary sights on Singapore and the greater Asian market, by forming an alliance with Singapore firm, Keystone Law Corporation.
Korean law firm Yulchon is advising Seoul-based Honam Petrochemical Corp on its US$1.27bn acquisition bid for a controlling stake in Malaysia’s largest petrochemical maker– Titan Chemicals Corp– one of Korea’s biggest M&A deals this year.
The head of Paul Hastings’ China PE practice Maurice Hoo has left the firm to become the co-head of global PE for Orrick in Hong Kong
Clifford Chance has transferred the co-head of its London capital markets practice to Riyadh, boosting ties with its Saudi ally, Al-Jadaan & Partners.
Clifford Chance has reorganised its capital markets practices in Singapore and Hong Kong
Clifford Chance and Zaid Ibrahim have helped Japan’s Oji Paper acquire Malaysian paperboard manufacturer, GS Paper & Packaging for an estimated US$200m.
The collapse of the Allen & Gledhill-Zaid Ibrahim alliance is more than just a failure of strategy: it highlights some of the challenges facing Southeast Asian law firms looking for regional expansion
The sole Malaysian law firm in the Middle East, Zaid Ibrahim, has terminated its alliance with Singapore’s Allen & Gledhill.
Two of Southeast Asia’s largest law firms, Singapore’s Allen & Gledhill and Malaysia’s Zaid Ibrahim & Co, have terminated the strategic alliance they forged only two years ago.
Signs of increased activity in the equity capital markets in Malaysia have emerged and the latest offering comes from JCY International, one of the largest global precision engineering manufacturers of hard-disk drive mechanical components.
The Malaysian Bar Council has reiterated its opposition to the opening of the legal services market to foreign law firms.
Malaysian firm Zaid Ibrahim has obtained approval to launch offices in Sydney and Melbourne next year, making it the first Asian law firm in Australia and the first time an Asian firm has practiced here.
WongPartnership, Singapore’s fourth largest firm by headcount, is increasing its focus on the Middle East market by investing in its presence in Doha.
China Development Bank (CDB) has just completed its first project financing in Greece.
The Islamic finance practices of firms in East Asia have been eyeing the Gulf as a growth strategy for some time. The question is: will recent global financial events will put their ambitions on hold?
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has postponed its plans to launch in the Middle East.
The votes are in, the numbers crunched, the data weighted, collated and tallied. And the results have given some interesting findings.