Simmons & Simmons law firm news

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has recruited corporate lawyer Eric Lin to its planned Beijing team.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Linklaters’ counsel Howard Lam to join the firm as partner.

Herbert Smith could be the next UK firm to open its doors in Australia, according to UK media.

In a growing trend of sophisticated transactions involving Vietnamese corporations, Freshfields and Baker & McKenzie have advised on TH Milk’s acquisition of a sugar refinery owned by UK-based food producer Tate & Lyle.

Ashurst has laterally hired Simmons & Simmons disputes lawyer Gareth Hughes to join the firm’s Hong Kong office with immediate effect. He will be Ashurst’s first litigation partner in Hong Kong and only the second disputes partner the firm has in the Asian region.

The Tokyo office of Simmons & Simmons has laterally hired Hogan Lovells projects lawyer Simon Barrett to join the firm as a partner with immediate effect.

The dynamic Perth market has proved too hard to ignore for insurance specialist Moray & Agnew, which has opened a new office there to be headed by Phil Keays.

DLA Piper will officially enter the Australian market on 1 May, after a successful partner vote at both DLA Piper and DLA Phillips Fox.

Baker & McKenzie has hired James Kwan as a partner in its China dispute resolution practice. Kwan, who will join the firm on 1 March, comes from the Hong Kong office of Simmons & Simmons where he was also a partner.

Is this the start of a brave new era in the Australian legal services market, or just a rebranding of two existing players?

Competition in the Australian legal market is set to intensify with the announcement that UK’s largest firm Clifford Chance is moving in.

2011 promises to be another year of intrigue and transformation for many of Australia and New Zealand’s best-known firms. ALB starts the year by nominating ten firms for whom 2011 will be a particularly critical year. Whether they are law firms primed for growth or ones that are looking to recover from a setback, here are the firms that have a point to prove to the market.

众达律师事务所近日在全球范围内晋升36位律师为合伙人，其中包括北京代表处的反垄断律师Sébastien Evrard和并购律师Ian Liao。

US-based firm Jones Day has promoted 36 lawyers to its global partnership this week, a third of whom are in offices outside the US and a quarter of whom are female. Those promoted include Joe Bauerschmidt in Singapore, John Lin in Taipei and Sebastien Evrard and Ian Lian both in Beijing.

The dispute between Atanaskovic Hartnell and the founding partners of Chang, Pistilli & Simmons (CP&S) has ended once and for all with the appeal period from the March decision in the Downing Centre Local Court expiring on Friday.

Finance, derivatives and insolvency specialist Chris Forrest has returned to New Zealand and Minter Ellison Rudd Watts after 14 years in the UK.

The managing director of UK firm Eversheds’ Shanghai office Peter Corne has decided to make a move to US firm Dorsey & Whitney as a partner and head of the Shanghai office.

公司和投资并购领域资深律师孔宏德(Peter Corne)近日决定以合伙人的身份加入美国德汇律所，并成为其上海代表处的负责人。

Qatar is in the process of launching new and stricter licensing requirements for international law firms looking to establish an outpost in the lucrative GCC state.

Jones Day has hired Eric Milne as a partner for its Dubai banking and finance practice. Milne comes to the firm from Simmons & Simmons.