Skadden is pleased to welcome Friven Yeoh to the firm as a partner and leader of the firm’s International Litigation and Arbitration Group in Asia. Mr. Yeoh most recently spent eight years as co-leader of the Global Arbitration, Trade and Advocacy group at another global law firm, where he oversaw the practice from Hong Kong and Singapore. He will split his time between Skadden’s Hong Kong and Singapore offices. Yeoh arrives at the firm from Sidley Austin.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that partner Daniel Abercromby today joins the firm’s Hong Kong office as a member of its Global Finance Practice Group.  Abercromby arrives from White & Case LLP.

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Squire Patton Boggs has announced the appointment of Ruaridh Guy as a partner in its Hong Kong Litigation Practice. Mr. Guy, who arrives with associates Lauras Rambinas and Tina Wong from the Hong Kong office of Ince & Co, is the latest senior lawyer to join the firm’s Commodities and Shipping Industry Group. He follows the recent addition of Michael Wray in Houston, Joel Cockerell in Singapore, and Marco Crusafio in Milan.

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Mayer Brown announced today that Allison Lee has joined its Corporate & Securities practice as a partner. With 15 years’ experience advising public and private companies and private equity firms in connection with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, distribution arrangements and secondary sale transactions across Asia, Ms. Lee joins from Debevoise & Plimpton where she was a member of the firm’s Corporate Department, and Private Equity and M&A Groups in Hong Kong.

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Leading international law firm Clifford Chance today announced that market-leading public and private M&A partner Alex Bidlake will join the firm’s Asia Pacific Corporate practice, based in Hong Kong. Bidlake joins the Clifford Chance from the Hong Kong office of Linklaters.

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Dentons Hong Kong LLP is further expanding its banking and finance, capital markets and corporate finance capabilities with the addition of veteran, highly respected and well known practitioner, Nicholas Chua, as a partner. Prior to joining the firm, Nicholas was the Head of Legal of CIMB Bank in Hong Kong and the Global Head of Legal, Investment Banking of CIMB in the region, having worked in the banking industry for some 20 years. While moving back to private practice, Nicholas will continue to assist Dentons Hong Kong and the Dentons Regional and International platform, further enhancing the firm’s reputation as a leading banking, finance and corporate finance global law firm. The team managed by Nicholas was previously named in the Legal 500 GC Powerlist Hong Kong Teams and he was part of the team that was recognised as Team of the Year – Banking, Asia at the Inhouse Community Counsels Awards.

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