News in brief – April 2015
SLATER & GORDON SPENDS £637M ON QUINDELL’S PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIVISION Australian law firm Slater & Gordon signed a £637m deal,…
Hong Kong
Asia-Pacific: Cadwalader raids Latham’s Hong Kong office for seven lawyer team
Michael Liu, who was co-head of Latham & Watkins‘ Greater China practice and was formerly managing partner of its Hong…
Chinese walls?
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
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
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
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
As Hong Kong becomes gateway to the world’s biggest trader in goods after China overtook the US for the first time…