We are delighted to have bolstered our aviation team in Singapore with the promotion of Anita Quy to Head of Aviation, APAC and the appointment of new partner, Tristan Thompson. Tristan joins the firm from DLA Piper, where he spent the last three years principally working on complex aviation and aerospace product liability claims and hull subrogation claims.
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Global law firm Clyde & Co has announced the partner hire of Ton van den Bosch in Singapore to further strengthen the firm’s global Energy, Marine & Natural Resources practice in Asia Pacific. Ton will be based in the firm’s Singapore office and will support clients across the Asia Pacific region and beyond. Ton joins Clyde & Co from Addleshaw Goddard, where he was Managing Partner of the Singapore office.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Paul Tan has joined the firm’s Singapore office as a partner. Tan, a former partner at Cavenagh Law LLP, which is registered in a formal law alliance in Singapore under Clifford Chance Asia, will continue his international disputes practice. He will lead the firm’s international arbitration practice in Asia.
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Littler, the world’s largest employment and labour law practice representing management, has opened an office in Zurich, Switzerland. The office will be led by Dr. Ueli Sommer, who joined the firm as a partner, and will operate under the name Littler | LEL Lawyers.
Trademark partner Candice Kwok has joined Squire Patton Boggs’ global Intellectual Property and Technology practice in Palo Alto from the Singapore office of IP firm Marks & Clerk.
Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce the appointment of Joel Cockerell as a partner in the firm’s Singapore office and Commodities and Shipping Industry Group. Mr. Cockerell joins from HFW’s Singapore office.
Mayer Brown announced today that leading international arbitration partner, Kay-Jannes Wegner, has joined its Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice in Singapore, along with senior associate, Edern Coënt. Both join from Kim & Chang in South Korea, where Mr. Wegner was a senior member of that firm’s international & cross-border litigation practice and head of its European arbitration desk. Prior to joining Kim & Chang, as an English and German qualified lawyer, Mr. Wegner practiced international arbitration at leading international law firms in London and Singapore. Mr. Coënt is a New York and French qualified lawyer who has worked in Paris, Hong Kong and Seoul, including at the Secretariat of the ICC Court of Arbitration.
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King & Spalding has hired leading Asia-based International Arbitration lawyer Nils Eliasson as a partner in the firm’s Trial and Global Disputes Practice Group. He will be based in the Singapore office. Eliasson was most recently a partner at Shearman & Sterling in Hong Kong, where he led the firm’s Asia International Arbitration practice.
Mayer Brown announced today that leading energy lawyer Justin Tan, has joined its Corporate & Securities practice in Singapore. Mr. Tan joins from Clyde & Co in Singapore having previously worked for another international law firm in Shanghai and Tokyo.
