Clifford Chance has hired Ashurst dispute resolution partner Angela Pearsall in Sydney. Pearsall's practice spans both corporate and government sectors, as well as class actions. She is the third partner the magic circle firm has hired in Australia in the past year.

Kirkland & Ellis private equity partner Frank Sun has jumped ship to US rival Latham & Watkins in Hong Kong. Sun, who focuses his practice on China transactions, specialises in private equity investment and public and private M&A.

Secretary general of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Chiann Bao, has joined Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in Hong Kong. Bao has managed the centre since 2010. She is replaced by Sarah Grimmer, who most recently served as senior legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.

Hong Kong firm ONC Lawyers has added Baker & McKenzie disputes partner Dominic Wai to its litigation and dispute resolution group.

Bird & Bird has hired Simmons & Simmons TMT partner Alexander Shepherd in Singapore. Shepherd headed Simmons' TMT sector group in Asia and specialises in the regulatory aspects of telecommunications, IT, technology and e-commerce matters.

Eversheds has hired Herbert Smith Freehills disputes partner Rachel Shek into its Hong Kong office. At Eversheds, Shek's practice will cover general commercial and banking litigation as well as matters before the Hong Kong High Court, Court of Appeal and Court of Final Appeal.

Sidley Austin has grown its India practice, hiring Jones Day's India group head and partner Manoj Bhargava, counsel Ankit Kashyap and two associates in Singapore. The firm now has six India practitioners in its Singapore base.

Bhargava advises on capital markets deals involving Indian companies. Last year, he represented underwriters including Citigroup Global Markets and Deutsche Bank AG on a $1.4bn (£1bn) sale of shares in state-owned Indian Oil Corp by the Indian government.

Meanwhile, project finance partner David Gartside has joined Sidley Austin's Singapore office from White & Case's office, where he was a local partner. Gartside advises on international projects and project financing.

Berwin Leighton Paisner has boosted its Hong Kong private wealth practice with the hire of Withers partner Marcus Dearle. He acted for Florence Tsang in the 2011 landmark Hong Kong divorce case, in which Ms Tsang was awarded the largest ever reported divorce award of HK$1.22bn (£106.6m).

RHTLaw Taylor Wessing – Taylor Wessing's Singapore operation – has appointed Roderick Edward Martin as a senior partner and head of the firm's dispute resolution practice. Martin joins the firm from his own practice, Martin & Partners. He replaces late senior partner Subhas Anandan, one of the country's most prominent criminal defence lawyers, who died in January 2015.