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How the top international law firms stack up in Asia

Clifford Chance: 366 lawyers across eight offices. Hong Kong - 138 lawyers including 32 partners, Singapore - 72 lawyers including 15 partners, Tokyo - 51 lawyers including nine partners, Shanghai - 22 lawyers including five partners, Beijing - 29 lawyers including six partners, Bangkok - 16 lawyers including two partners Sydney - 21 lawyers including seven partners Perth - 17 lawyers including seven partners Key deals include: • advising the underwriters on Prada's Hong Kong listing; • advising the underwriters on Glencore's dual listing in Hong Kong and London; and • advising the managers on Volkswagen's dim sum bond - the first by a German company.
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Slaughters ups secondments to referral firms in Asia

Slaughter and May is set to tighten its relationships with local firms in Asia, with the firm planning to increase secondments to the region and send lawyers to Korea for the first time. The elite law firm is aiming to increase its lawyer secondments across Asia in general but particularly in Japan – where it works with firms including Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu – and South Korea, where despite links with Kim & Chang and Shin & Kim the firm has not carried out secondments to date.
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Freshfields advises Tesco on 129-store Japanese sale

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won a mandate to advise Tesco on the sale of its Japan business as the firm gears up to relocate its latest corporate partner to the region. The firm is advising Tesco on the sell-off of its 129 stores in Japan, a move the retail giant confirmed last month, stating that it "cannot build a sufficiently scalable business" in the region. The Freshfields team handling the sale is understood to be led by Tokyo head James Lawden, although the firm declined to comment.
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Freshfields and Mayer Brown lead ex-BP chief's $4.2bn Turkey tie-up

Mayer Brown and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won roles on the planned $4.2bn (£2.7bn) merger of former BP chief executive Tony Hayward's investment vehicle Vallares with Turkish oil company Genel Energy International. Mayer Brown's London office is advising Genel, the largest oil producer in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, fielding a team led by global energy co-head Robert Hamill, working with partners including Kate Ball-Dodd 
and Richard Smith (corporate), James Hill 
(tax) and Mark Compton (financial services). Mayer Brown worked alongside Turkish law firm Yazici, where senior partner and Genel GC Murat Yazici took the lead role.
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Battle royale - the tussle for global dominance shifts eastward

With elite Wall Street firms finally breaking into Hong Kong law, the stage is set for a high-stakes struggle across Asia between the world's top law firms. Georgina Stanley and Simon Petersen report
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The rush down under – how Australia belatedly met global law

When Squire Sanders & Dempsey became the latest international law firm to enter the Australian legal market last month, the move had as much to do with Asia as it did Perth's booming energy and resources sector. Given the strong trade flows between Perth and Asia, where the firm already has offices in Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the move to merge with the majority of Minter Ellison's Perth arm was fuelled by a desire not only to tap into one of the G20's best-performing economies but to use it as a platform to bolster its Asian practice.
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Norton Rose boosts Australia corporate and banking teams with double partner hire

Norton Rose has made a duo of lateral hires in Australia with the addition of a corporate and a banking partner. Gilbert & Tobin partner Martyn Taylor is joining Norton Rose Australia's corporate group in Sydney, while Corrs Chambers Westgarth banking partner Scott Miller is joining the firm in Melbourne.
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Ashurst set for vote as terms emerge on Blake Dawson Asia deal

Ashurst looks set to nearly double its Asian partner count through a tie-up with Blake Dawson that will see the Australian leader rebrand as Ashurst. Partners at the UK law firm received a document confirming details of the proposed joint venture late last month, with a vote expected to take place before the end of September.
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BLP relocates City partner duo to Hong Kong ahead of new local launch

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has relocated two City partners to its new venture in Hong Kong, with the firm also planning to add local law capability to the office. Corporate partner David Robins moved to Hong Kong last month, with real estate partner Victoria Gardner set to join him in October.
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Hogan Lovells Shanghai IP partner exits to join Ropes & Gray

Ropes & Gray has strengthened its new Shanghai office with the hire of intellectual property (IP) partner Geoffrey Lin from Hogan Lovells. Lin, Hogan Lovells' sole IP partner in Shanghai, was made up in the firm's promotions round last year. He has acted for clients across the pharma, biotech, healthcare, electronics and telecoms sectors, including Genentech, Becton, Dickinson and Company and Apple.
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