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• Indian firm KS Partners expands with new hires and Bangalore launch

  May 03 2012 Indian firm KS Partners has expanded its insurance practice with the hire of two partners from Tuli & Co. Mrinal Ojha and Trinath Tadakamalla joined the Delhi office... more

• BLP promotes 11 in annual promotions round

  Apr 23 2012 Berwin Leighton Paisner has promoted 11 lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round - a slight decrease on the 13 promotions made last year. Managing... more

• Freshfields promotes 20 to partnership

  Mar 29 2012 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted 20 lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round, the same number as were promoted last year. This year’s... more

• Bird & Bird starts toward ambitious goals in Asia with four new partners

  Mar 26 2012 Bird & Bird has boosted capacity across its Asia network with the addition of four partners. Lorraine Tay leaves a role as the head of Baker & McKenzie’s Singapore... more

• King & Spalding hires two litigation partners from Bird & Bird in London

  Mar 14 2012 King & Spalding has boosted its London disputes practice with the hire of two litigation partners from Bird & Bird. Jane Player leaves a role as the joint head of... more

• Wragge & Co promotes 3 to partnership

  Mar 08 2012 Wragge & Co has promoted three lawyers to the partnership, ending the promotions freeze that saw the firm hiring, rather than promoting, talent in 2011. The new... more

• Juris Corp boosts Delhi dispute resolution practice with FoxMandal hire

  Mar 06 2012 Juris Corp has boosted its dispute resolution practice in Delhi with the hire of former FoxMandal Partner Sandeep Kumar Mahapatra. The new hire brings the total number... more

• Herbert Smith appoints new head of Asia dispute resolution practice

  Nov 24 2011 Herbert Smith has appointed litigation specialist Gavin Lewis as the new head of their Asia dispute resolution practice. Lewis takes over from Mark Johnson, who has... more

• Singapore firm RHT boosts disputes practice with lateral hires

  Nov 02 2011 Taylor Wessing’s Singapore alliance firm RHT has boosted its litigation and dispute resolution practices with the hire of two partners from rival Singaporean firms.... more

• Baker & McKenzie boosts Singapore disputes practice with Ang & Partners hire

  Oct 06 2011 Baker & McKenzie’s Singapore member firm Baker & McKenzie Wong & Leow has hired senior counsel Chan Leng Sun from Singapore firm Ang & Partners, and appointed him as... more

• DLA Piper boosts London financial litigation practice with 3 hires from LG

  Sep 30 2011 DLA Piper boosted its London financial litigation practice with the hire of three from Lawrence Graham - Jeremy Andrews, Jean-Pierre Douglas-Henry and James Curle.... more

• ALMT Legal adds a partner in London and one in Delhi

  Aug 12 2011 ALMT Legal has boosted its partnership team with the hire of two new partners. M&A and private equity specialist Garima Basu joins the firm from her independent... more

• The Indian legal market - problems and prospects

  May 12 2011 The Lawyer has hosted a series of discussions on issues arising from the Indian legal market. The panel was chaired by Law Society chief executive Des Hudson, and... more

• Ashurst to launch disputes practice in HK after Simmons hire

  Apr 18 2011 Ashurst is set to launch a Hong Kong dispute resolution practice after the hire of Simmons & Simmons China disputes head Gareth Hughes. Ashurst Asia head Geoffrey... more

• Ashurst makes up 12 lawyers to partnership

  Apr 15 2011 Ashurst has promoted 12 lawyers to its partnership, up from 11 last year. The corporate practice saw the most promotions in this round, with five new partners. Two... more

• The demise of the trial lawyer

  Feb 14 2011 Court statistics show a trend away from jury trials, with disputes increasingly being settled by alternative means outside the courtroom. U.S. District courts had... more

• Amarchand and Luthra kick-start the new year with accolades

  Jan 25 2011 Amarchand and Luthra have been on an award winning spree, beginning 2011 with Amarchand winning the Indian Business Law Journal’s 2010 Law firm of the year award and... more

• Norton Rose hires Freshfields' dispute resolution chief in Moscow

  Jan 07 2011 Norton Rose has hired Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Russian dispute resolution chief, Yaroslav Klimov, and appointed him as head of dispute resolution in Moscow.... more

• Qatar opens international dispute resolution centre

  Dec 15 2010 Qatar’s prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani has officially opened a civil and commercial court and regulatory tribunal for the Qatar financial centre.... more

• Clyde & Co hires Singapore based disputes lawyer from Rajah & Tann

  Dec 06 2010 Ganesh Chandru has left top Singapore firm Rajah & Tann to join the arbitration team at Clyde & Co. Chandru is admitted to practice in England, Singapore and India,... more

• Australian International Disputes Centre Opens

  Aug 04 2010 The Australian International Disputes Centre (AIDC) was officially opened in Sydney yesterday. Chief executive of the Australian Industry Group, Heather Ridout,... more

• Norton Rose promotes 23 to counsel

  May 17 2010 Norton Rose has promoted 23 lawyers to counsel in the firm’s first round of counsel promotions since the merger with Australia's Deacons. Of the 23, five lawyers have... more

• Lanier Law Firm expands to Europe

  Oct 13 2009 The Lanier Law Firm has created an international practice and will open an office in London in the first quarter of 2010 to expand the new practice. The firm already... more

• Clifford Chance hires Nish Shetty for Asian dispute resolution launch

  Jul 01 2009 Clifford Chance has appointed Nish Shetty in its Singapore office, in a move to strengthen ist new Southeast Asian dispute resolution practice. Shetty was a partner in... more

• Swedish law firm merger creates 200-lawyer major player

  Jan 16 2009 Sweden’s third-largest law firm, Lindahl, and intellectual property and arbitration firm RydinCarlsten are set to merge, creating a firm employing 200 corporate... more

• Freshfields dispute resolution head Terry steps down

  Nov 29 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer dispute resolution head Ian Terry has stepped down from the role after three years. Chris Pugh will succeed him at the beginning of... more