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Simmons and Hogan Lovells Tokyo energy heads join Pillsbury

US law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has ramped up in Japan with the hire of local practice heads from Simmons & Simmons and Hogan Lovells.
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International Edition

Irwin Mitchell loses out in National Grid legal panel review

Irwin Mitchell has lost its place on energy giant National Grid's legal panel as part of an ongoing review by UK general counsel and company secretary Karen Clayton. The firm, which won a first-time appointment to the UK panel in 2011 to advise purely on debt recovery matters, has not been reappointed as part of a review of the company's existing panel firms. Shakespeares, which already advises National Grid on property work, will instead take over from Irwin Mitchell having been awarded a one year place.
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Coming in from the cold – Ooredoo's GC on the challenges of moving into Myanmar

Middle East and Southeast Asia telecoms company Ooredoo recently took advantage of a thawing in Myanmar's international relations to set up shop in one of the world's last untapped mobile phone markets. At Legal Week's Corporate Counsel Forum Singapore, general counsel Scott Weenink shared his experiences
6 minute read

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Former Allens Singapore head joins Rajah & Tann to head energy group

The former head of Allens' Singapore office Marae Ciantar has joined local outfit Rajah & Tann to lead the 20-lawyer energy and resources group. Ciantar, who played a key role in growing the Australian firm's clientbase in South East Asia, was the last Allens partner to leave the Singapore base after the tie up with magic circle firm Linklaters saw the two firms combine offices in the island state.
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BLP joins rivals in fast-growing Myanmar through local partnership

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has expanded into Myanmar through a tie-up with local outfit Legal Network Consultants (LNC). The Yangon-based firm is now a member of BLP's Asia network, which has been created so that the firm can tap a steady flow of deals coming out of the country. To date BLP has been servicing the market out of Singapore, with a practice led by the firm's Singapore head and project finance partner Alistair Duffield, corporate partner Ken Cheung and energy and projects partner Nomita Nair.
3 minute read

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Baker & McKenzie opens office in Myanmar

Baker & McKenzie has become the latest international law firm to open in Myanmar. The US outfit, which has been mulling a launch in the country for some time, has opened its new base in the former capital and commercial centre Yangon, with a team being led by former Sydney-based infrastructure and corporate partner Chris Hughes.
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International Edition

Transfer Window Asia: recent moves including Latham, Weil and Two Birds

Shearman & Sterling has expanded is project development and finance practice with addition of Allens partner Anthony Patten in Singapore. Patten previously led Allens' oil and gas team in Asia and Australia, before which he was a partner in Ashurst's London energy, transport and infrastructure group. He also spent six years working in London and the UAE as a senior in-house counsel at Royal Dutch Shell.
6 minute read

International Edition

Shearman launches nuclear projects group with Pillsbury hire

Shearman & Sterling has launched a global nuclear power practice with the hire of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's international nuclear group head George Borovas in Tokyo. The US firm, which last month hired Allens' oil and gas leader for Asia and Australia, Anthony Patten, said it was investing in its projects group globally in a bid to tap new opportunities.
3 minute read

International Edition

Hogan Lovells eyes 10% revenue growth in Asia

Hogan Lovells is looking to grow its Asia revenue by 10% in the next year by building out partners in China, South East Asia and Japan. The transatlantic firm, which currently generates more than 90% of its business in the US and Europe, will also make a decision about whether or not to launch in Australia.
4 minute read

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The compass points south – how do in-house legal teams in Africa rate their external advisers?

Ian Isdale, group company secretary and general counsel of leading African food and consumer goods company Tiger Brands and immediate past president of the Corporate Lawyers Association of South Africa, is putting it mildly when he says: "There has been a heightened interest in Africa and in the next five years I don't see that interest waning." Recent years have seen a host of UK and US law firms – ranging from Norton Rose Fulbright and Linklaters to Hogan Lovells and even Slaughter and May – attempting to come up with ways to penetrate a market where activity levels have remained buoyant, despite economic challenges elsewhere in the world. So with law firms and corporates increasingly turning their attention south, Legal Week Intelligence has, for the first time, extended its flagship Client Satisfaction Report to Africa, to uncover the key trends affecting in-house legal teams in the continent and their satisfaction with external legal advisers
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