Press Releases

Deacons, Hong Kong’s longest established and largest independent law firm, has deepened its regulatory expertise by bringing in Isabella Wong as a Partner in the Financial Services Practice Group. Isabella has re-joined Deacons from a global asset manager after acquiring in-house experience by counselling the manager’s investment management and funds distribution businesses in APAC (ex-Japan) regions ...

SyCipLaw maintained its Band 1 rankings in the recently launched 2023 Chambers Global Guide for the following practice areas: Banking & Finance Corporate/M&A Projects, Infrastructure & Energy The firm also received a “Spotlight Table” ranking in Banking & Finance: Capital Markets. This ranking is given to firms and individuals where the table does not have numerical rankings yet and are meant to highlight a select group of firms or individuals in certain practice areas ...

Hong Kong – 7 March 2023 – Deacons, Hong Kong’s longest established and largest independent law firm, has deepened its regulatory expertise by bringing in Isabella Wong as a Partner in the Financial Services Practice Group. Isabella has re-joined Deacons from a global asset manager after acquiring in-house experience by counselling the manager’s investment management and funds distribution businesses in APAC (ex-Japan) regions ...

A team led by Heuking Partner Dr. Jörg aus der Fünten advised international financial investor CoBe Capital on legal and tax matters in relation to the acquisition of L’Oréal Deutschland GmbH’s natural cosmetics business, including the acquisition of LOGOCOS Naturkosmetik GmbH & Co. KG. Closing of the transaction has already occurred ...

Chambers and Partners has recently announced its nominees for the Chambers Asia Pacific & Greater China Region Awards 2023. Han Kun and the firm's partner Yin Ge have been respectively nominated for the awards of "Diversity & Inclusion: Outstanding Firm" and "Diversity & Inclusion: Outstanding Contribution" ("Chambers D&I Awards"). Han Kun is the only PRC firm to be nominated for the Chambers D&I Awards ...

WWD: Why Beauty Lawsuits Are Set to Increase Among the current lawsuits are ones against L’Oréal, Sephora and Olaplex March 3, 2023 By: Kathryn Hopkins “If you Google the Olaplex case, that says it kind of started from TikTok. As an attorney, it is crazy to think that trends in litigation are going to come from social media outlets,” said Marissa Alkhazov, a shareholder in Buchalter law firm’s Seattle office and the Northwest chair of the firm’s products liability practice group ...

March 3, 2023 – Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt P.C. announced today that Steven Blair, Joshua Dennis, Jonathan French, Sara Sayles, Jessie Schuh, Adam Smith, David Stearns, Lindsay Thane and Jason Wrubleski have been voted in as shareholders at the firm. Attorneys at offices in Seattle, Portland and Bend were promoted. Collectively, these lawyers practice across Schwabe’s Real Estate and Construction; Natural Resources; and Healthcare and Life Sciences industry groups ...

The Fund, which achieved a final close of £267 million, has been structured as a Jersey Private Fund (JPF) and has a focus on UK real estate investments. Brydell Partners invests its own capital alongside managed discretionary funds, raised from global institutional LPs.The Carey Olsen team advising Brydell Partners on the Jersey law aspects of the fund launch was led by partner James Mulholland and assisted by senior associate Arindam Madhuryya and associate Niamh Murphy ...

Each month the Business Journal spotlights some of the legal industry’s rising stars in the Puget Sound region who are helping the business community thrive. Tina Scott | Associate Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt Areas of practice: Real estate and constructionYears in the profession: 3 Tina says law is really about peacemaking ...

Paris, March 3, 2023, following the acquisition of Visco by Tikehau Investment Management in July 2022, Jeantet has assisted Tikehau Investment Management, the private equity business of Tikehau Capital, in the entry, as minority investors, of investment vehicles represented by Crédit Agricole Régions Investissement (Carvest) in the capital of Visco, a recognized operator in high-precision mechanical machining for leading-edge industries, notably defense, aeronautics, space, arms and energy in F

The world's leading legal directory Chambers and Partners recently published its Chambers Greater China Region Legal Guide 2023. Han Kun contributed an in-depth overview article: CHINA: An Introduction to TMT: Equity Financing (PRC Firms)— Trending Topics for China TMT Investments. The article is co-authored by Han Kun partners Charles Li, Gloria Xu, Hanting (Bridget) Gao, and Yunzhi Zhao ...

Bradley is pleased to announce that Alé Dalton has been named to the Hispanic National Bar Association’s (HNBA) 2023 “Top Lawyers Under 40” list. The “HNBA/VIA Top Lawyers Under 40” list recognizes exceptionally accomplished lawyers who have demonstrated professional excellence, integrity, leadership, commitment to the Hispanic community, and dedication to improving the legal profession. Ms ...

Panama, February 27, 2023. For the fifth consecutive year, the Corporate Reputation Business Monitor (MERCO), a reference monitor for Ibero-America, presented the rankings of 100 companies and the 100 leaders with the best reputation in Panama. We are pleased to announce that Morgan & Morgan remains the only law firm in this important ranking, consolidating itself in the #1 position of the Legal sector ...

We are very pleased to announce the promotion of Melissa Echeverría as partner in our Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions and Banking & Finance practice. Melissa has extensive experience in complex M&A processes, being praised by clients and peers for her ability to run productive due diligence processes and successfully handle multiple jurisdictional transactions ...

We are very pleased to announce the promotion of Javier Castellán as partner in our Labor and Employment practice. Javier has extensive experience in labor matters related to M&A transactions and due diligences, labor compliance, labor litigation and labor risk management and social security issues ...

Family context is key in blessing applications (Re Z Trust (Jersey)) The application was brought under Article 51 of the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984. Article 51(1) of the Law reads, 'A trustee may apply to the court for direction concerning the manner in which the trustee may or should act in connection with any matter concerning the trust and the court may make such order, if any, as it thinks fit' ...

Securing the future: Why Asian HNWIs are turning to offshore jurisdictions What kind of market volatility and geopolitical risks are Asian HNWI’s most concerned about today, and in what ways are they impacting their approach to growing wealth and succession planning?Rachel Yao (RY): HNWI migration in Asia was a rising trend over the past decade and has not slowed down as a result of Covid-19 border closures and lockdowns ...

The world's leading legal directory Chambers and Partners recently published its Chambers Global Legal Guide 2023. Han Kun contributed an in-depth overview article: CHINA: An Introduction to Corporate/M&A (PRC Firms), co-authored by Han Kun partner Chengyao (Aaron) Zhou, Xikang Wang, Shipo (Angus) Xie, and Gilbert Shen ...

Law firm Shoosmiths has advised UK-based electric vehicle charging company EVC on a deal securing up to £165 million capital from funds managed by Denham Sustainable Infrastructure (DSI), an arm of global energy transition investment firm, Denham Capital ...

Law firm Shoosmiths has reflected on a year of exceptional performance by its corporate team, having advised on more than 400 transactions with an aggregate deal value of £5bn from January to December 2022.Corporate activity levels remained elevated throughout last year, with Shoosmiths’ corporate team working across a record number of deals spanning private equity, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and venture capital – many with a strong cross-border element ...

The Asia Legal Awards celebrate outstanding work and leading lawyers within the jurisdiction and are open to all firms with offices in Asia. The awards cover a range of practice areas and disciplines and identify the most significant deals and transactions that took place during 2022.Carey Olsen's presence in Asia has grown significantly since launching in Singapore and Hong Kong SAR in 2016 ...

Kudun and Partners represented Damri Residence Co., Ltd., a project company sponsored by Areeya Property PCL, a publicly listed real estate developer on the Stock Exchange of Thailand with several successful high-value real estate projects in and around Bangkok, on two critical transactions for the development of the luxury Soontareeya Residence in Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong area including a multiple assets-backed financing arrangement transaction ...

Mamo TCV Advocates will once again be participating at the KSU Careers Expo which will be held at the University of Malta on the 28th February, 2023. Lawyers from Mamo TCV will be available to meet with students at the Firm’s stand on campus where they will be able to answer questions in relation to the Firm’s 2023 student internship program, as well as questions about their prospective careers and life at the Firm in general ...

Chambers Global recently published its 2023 Global Guide and once again recognised Mamo TCV as one of the leading law firms in Malta. The firm was ranked as a Band 1 Firm for “General Business Law” – which was the only practice area in which Maltese firms were ranked. Chambers described the firm as a “stellar law firm with an acclaimed corporate and dispute resolution practice ...

We are pleased to announce that Kudun and Partners has been shortlisted for not one, but four prestigious awards by The Legal 500 – Southeast Asia Awards 2023 ...