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Singapore to award second round of local law licences as firms line up to apply

DLA Piper, Eversheds, K&L Gates and Linklaters are among a raft of firms expected to apply to practise local law in Singapore after the country's Ministry of Law announced that a second round of licences will be awarded next year.
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Skadden strengthens Hong Kong corporate with Paul Hastings hire

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has moved to restock its Hong Kong corporate practice with the hire of Paul Hastings partner Christopher Betts. Betts joined Skadden this month after just over two years with Paul Hastings, where he was promoted to partner in September 2010.
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China and Hong Kong

Can China's firms follow in King & Wood's footsteps to go global? And the intricacies of drafting cross-border contracts under Chinese law
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International Edition

Withers targets major expansion in Asia and new US presence in five-year strategy

Withers has laid out a new five-year strategy, including ambitious targets for growth in Asia and plans to launch new offices on the west coast of the US.
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International Edition

Stephenson Harwood takes lead on $1.5bn Indian healthcare deal

Stephenson Harwood has won a lead role on an India outbound investment healthcare deal worth an estimated $1.5bn (£934m).
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International Edition

Chinese plans to allow employee shares may give foreign companies' recruitment a boost

Hogan Lovells' Steve Robinson and Kurt Tiam explain the new rules for employee share plans in China
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International Edition

Fortune's firms - as King & Wood goes global, can its Chinese rivals follow?

The internationalisation of China's legal market has seen the country's law firms prosper both locally and abroad. Can they continue to dominate their market as other global firms move in? Alice Gartland reports
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International Edition

Vinson signs up ex-Herbert Smith Japan energy chief in Tokyo

Vinson & Elkins has hired ex-Herbert Smith partner James Watson for its Tokyo office, reports The Asian Lawyer. Watson, Herbert Smith's former joint head of energy and infrastructure in Japan, had been at the firm since 1996 and made partner in 2001. He transferred from London to Tokyo in 2007 before leaving the firm last year.
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International Edition

Barlows Hong Kong exits underline Asia's increasing promise for insurance advisers

"In the last six months there has been a notable recognition that the European and US economies are not going to recover anytime soon, so firms are looking to maximise their coverage in Asia – any law firm with a global strategy has to..."
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International briefing

Corporate sleuths in China, pension deals in the US give rise to a generational battle and the controversies dogging the US markets regulator
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