Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP, part of the world’s largest law firm, Dentons, is pleased to announce that Kunal Kapoor has joined the Firm as a partner in the energy, infrastructure and project finance group. Kunal joins from Ashurst and prior to this, Kunal was with Ince & Co. More >>

Dechert LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Singapore and English qualified Siew Kam Boon has joined the firm as a corporate partner based in Singapore. She was previously a partner at K&L Gates focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and emerging growth and venture capital. More >>

Akin Gump today announced that Michael Joyce has joined the firm as a partner in its global energy and transactions practice in Singapore. Mr. Joyce comes to Akin Gump from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he was head of the Oil & Gas Group for Australia. He has relocated from Sydney, Australia, back to Singapore where he was based earlier in his career. More >>

Morgan Lewis today welcomes Edward Bennett as an asset management, corporate, and mergers and acquisition partner, further boosting the firm’s capabilities in advising clients on fund formation, asset management, and transactional matters both within Asia and throughout the world. Mr. Bennett, whose prior work with a global law firm has focused on cross-border strategic and investment transactions in Southeast Asia, will be based in Singapore. More >>

DLA Piper today announced that Nathan (Nate) Bush has joined the Litigation and Regulatory practice in Singapore as Head of Investigations for Asia and Head of Antitrust and Competition for Asia. More >>

Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP, member of the world’s largest law firm, Dentons, is pleased to announce that John Dick has joined the firm as part of its Energy & Resources and Infrastructure practice and its South East Asia regional practice. More >>

Reflecting the strength of its large-scale project finance and energy work in Asia, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU) (as Documentation Bank) and 8 commercial lenders on the development and financing of a US $4.3 billion 2,000-megawatt coal-powered electricity generation plant in Central Java, which on completion will be one of the largest IPP’s in Asia. More >>

International law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) continues to grow its international aviation practice with the recruitment of asset finance Partners David Brotherton and Justin Sun, along with a team of five Associates, who will join the firm’s Singapore office from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP). More >>