News in brief – April 2015 Legal Business SLATER & GORDON SPENDS £637M ON QUINDELL’S PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIVISION Australian law firm Slater & Gordon signed a £637m deal,…
Asia-Pacific: Cadwalader raids Latham’s Hong Kong office for seven lawyer team Tom Moore Michael Liu, who was co-head of Latham & Watkins‘ Greater China practice and was formerly managing partner of its Hong…
Chinese walls? Legal Business MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION Following a high-profile internal squabble, the CIETAC is going global. Yu Jianlong, the institution’s secretary general,…
Hong Kong Law Society president forced to go amid row over independence from China Legal Business Ambrose Lam, president of the Hong Kong Law Society since May last year, was forced to resign on 19 August…
Asia: Fears over Hong Kong’s judicial autonomy see vote of no confidence passed in local law society head Legal Business Hong Kong lawyers turned out in force last night (14 August) to cast a vote of no confidence in local…
Linklaters former DCM partner Nigel Pridmore joins Ashurst Hong Kong Jaishree Kalia Linklaters former finance partner Nigel Pridmore has joined Ashurst in Hong Kong, following in the footsteps of London debt capital markets (DCM)…
Hogan Lovells and Olswang strengthen TMT practices with hire of team heads in Hong Kong and Germany Legal Business As Hong Kong becomes gateway to the world’s biggest trader in goods after China overtook the US for the first time…
