| Asian Legal Business has announced the shortlist of finalists for the 4th annual Malaysia Law Awards. The awards ceremony will welcome the brightest stars from Malaysia’s legal community at the InterContinental Kuala Lumpur on April 6, 2017. |
| Chinese firm Han Kun Law Offices has welcomed two corporate partners in Beijing, including Min Duan from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. |
| Submissions for the ALB Japan Law Awards 2017 are now open. Now on its 13th year, this event is held to honour and celebrate Japan’s top law firms, in-house counsel and deals. |
| RHTLaw Taylor Wessing has added litigation and dispute resolution specialist Sivakumar Vivekanandan Murugaiyan as a partner in Singapore. |
| ASEAN Legal Alliance (ALA), a network of law firms operating in ten ASEAN member countries, has signed an MoU with the Shanghai Arbitration Court of International Shipping (SACIS) that gives the ASEAN Legal Centre a foothold in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. |
| Kirkland & Ellis senior corporate partner Dominic Tsun, who acted on a number of notable Hong Kong IPOs in recent years, has resigned from the firm’s Hong Kong office. |
| S&C leads on $330 mln JV for biologics manufacturing facility in China, Simmons stars in listing of first leveraged and inverse products tracking HK equity indices, and many more in this week’s North Asia deals table. |
| AZB and SAM & Co on Pest Control (India)’s sale of its pest-control biz to Rentokil Initial, Allen & Gledhill on NTUC Fairprice and Thomson Plaza’s property portfolio sale, and many more in this week’s Southeast Asia deals table. |
| RHTLaw snaps up litigation expert from Straits Law, Han Kun adds corporate specialists in Beijing, and other updates in this week’s Asia Appointments table. |
