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Your business partner
| Monday, 18 February 2008
Cooper Grace Ward featured in ALB Magazine's 2007 Brisbane Report on the back of its successful rebrand in 2006.
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IP lecturer joins Thailand’s biggest domestic firm
| Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Tilleke & Gibbins, Thailand’s largest independent law firm, has appointed veteran legal academic Dr Jakkrit Kuanpoth as of counsel to the firm’s intellectual property protection group.
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DFDL Mekong to consolidate pan-ASEAN reach with Singapore office in 2011
| Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Regional firm DFDL Mekong has told ALB that it is expecting to convert its representative office license in Singapore to a fully-fledge foreign law practice (FLP) license this month, pending approval from the Ministry of Law. It plans to launch its Singapore office by early January 2011.
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A&O, Mofo lead historic Japanese-Mexican energy financing
| Monday, 18 October 2010
The US$1.2bn acquisitional financing of five gas power stations as well as a 54 kilometre gas pipeline for a group of associated companies in Mexico – all subsidiaries of Mitsui & Co and Tokyo Gas – is a sign of a resurgence in the Asia-Pacific project finance market and overseas acquisitions by Japanese utilities and trading companies.
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Milbank jumps on IPO bandwagon with new HK head
| Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Milbank has poached Mallesons Stephen Jacques partner Dieter Yih (who is also the vice-president of the Law Society of Hong Kong) to capitalise on the IPO listings boom in Hong Kong and benefit from strong deal activity in mainland China.
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Japan’s largest firm opens first office in Vietnam
| Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Nishimura & Asahi, the largest of Japan’s “Big Four” law firms, has launched its first representative office in Southeast Asia. The new office in Ho Chi Minh will be the firm’s second overseas venture, after its first international office was launched in Beijing only three months ago.
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Laos: Chandler Thong Ek, DFDL, LS Horizon, Milbank and Latham & Watkins act on multi-billion-dollar
| Friday, 20 August 2010
Thai firms Chandler Thong Ek and LS Horizon, Vietnamese firm DFDL and international firms Milbank and Latham & Watkins have advised on a US$2.7bn project financing deal for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic that involved a syndicated, multi-tranched, multi-currency facility from nine Thai banks – in Thailand’s largest ever project financing syndication and Lao’s first thermal power project.
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Fourth Korean firm lands in Shanghai
| Thursday, 24 June 2010
The continuous intra-Asia deal flow in China have tempted Korean firm Shin & Kim to launch a second China office in Shanghai, four years after its debut in Beijing.
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Behind the Carrefour ruling
| Friday, 22 January 2010
The Carrefour decision in Indonesia has attracted criticism from investors, the business community, lawyers and almost everyone in between.
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The future is green
| Thursday, 13 August 2009
As China is pioneering the way to a low carbon economy, environmental lawyers and climate change practices are the latest “must have” for the country's law firms.
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律所把握绿色机遇
| Thursday, 13 August 2009
绿色能源已成为当前经济发展的热点。诸多律师事务所不仅在日常运营过程中采取各种各样节能环保措施，同时也逐渐成为推动中国绿色经济发展的一支重要力量。
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Vietnam 2009
| Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Favourable economic indicators, booming energy and oil & gas industries, and a strong export sector are the leading lights for lawyers in Vietnam as they look for the country to fulfil its potential
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Law firm mergers back in Korea
| Thursday, 16 April 2009
Korean law firm Hwang Mok Park has agreed to merge with boutique litigation practice Hanseung Law Firm.
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