Morgan Lewis welcomes Joel Seow, who advises sponsors and investors throughout Asia on private investment fund formation, as a partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and director of Morgan Lewis Stamford. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Joel was a legal consultant for several Singapore private fund managers and served as counsel in the investment funds practice of another global law firm, resident in Singapore. More >>

Allen & Overy has appointed Felipe Duque as a U.S. law qualified capital markets partner based in its Singapore office. Felipe returns to Allen & Overy from Shearman & Sterling, where he was counsel. More >>

Morgan Lewis Stamford today welcomes corporate lawyer Vanessa Ng as a partner of Morgan Lewis & Bockius and a director of Morgan Lewis Stamford. Vanessa, who arrives from Conyers Dill & Pearman in Singapore, represents corporations in a variety of finance and transactional matters. More >>

DLA Piper has strengthened its Corporate and Finance offering with the appointment of Philip Lee as a partner in its Corporate practice, based in Singapore. Philip Lee joins the firm from Herbert Smith Freehills, where he has been a partner since 2012. More >>

Amanda’s hire is the latest investment in the firm’s global asset finance offering following the hire of partners Rex Rosales and Jahnavi Ramachandran in London, and Siva Subramaniam and Samuel Kolehmainen in Singapore in August 2018. The lateral hires were part of the firm’s strategic expansion plans and also complemented the existing global asset finance practice with their experience in the aviation finance sector. Prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills, she worked in the asset finance team at Clifford Chance in Singapore. More >>

DWF has appointed corporate partner Babita Ambekar to its Singapore office as the business continues to strengthen its presence in Asia Pacific. Babita joins from Duane Morris & Selvam LLP where she headed its India and Japan practice groups. More >>

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) has advised Airtel on a US$1.25bn investment in Airtel Africa by six leading global investors including Warburg Pincus, Softbank, Temasek and Singtel. The deal is one of Africa’s largest cross-border M&A transactions in 2018. Airtel is headquartered in India and is the world’s third-largest mobile network operator, and its subsidiary Airtel Africa is the second largest telecom operator in Africa, with operations in 14 countries and a customer base of 91 million.

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Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Farhana Sharmeen has joined the firm in Singapore as a partner in the Corporate Department. A Singapore law attorney with more than 20 years of experience covering a broad range of corporate transactions, her core practice areas are public and private mergers and acquisitions, privatizations and acquisition financing, particularly financing for public takeovers. Sharmeen joins Latham & Watkins from Withers KhattarWong in Singapore, where she was a partner. More >>

Dentons Rodyk is pleased to announce that Yi Jing Teo has joined the Firm as a Partner in the Corporate practice group. Having spent around 15 years in practice, Yi Jing’s experience is mainly in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. She has been involved with numerous IPOs and other equity capital market transactions such as rights issues and placements. More >>