Hunton & Williams law firm news

US firm Mayer Brown JSM is set to drastically scale down its Thai operations after the departure of three key partners from its Bangkok office.

Asia will undergo infrastructure and arbitration booms in the next ten years and the expanding market has room to accommodate more foreign law practices.

International boutique law firm Appleton Luff has promoted international trade lawyer Jay Nee to partner, after he joined the firm in 2009 as counsel.

Law firms in Thailand with offices on the main road where the military and protestors are currently facing a stand off are continuing to operate as usual, despite fears the street could become a battleground between angry protestors and armed troops.

Baker & McKenzie and Hunton & Williams have helped Thai National Power on the project development and US$150m financing of a new co-generation power plant in Thailand.

Clifford Chance and Hunton & Williams advised on the signing of a major Thailand energy deal in just under three weeks.

When reports surfaced of Lehman Brother’s bankruptcy and the fall of Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the US, it seemed like market activity had slowed. But figures released by Mergermarket show otherwise.

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A flick through the newspaper on any particular day will yield at least one article dealing with the growing evidence of global climate change, or, as is still the case, a denial of these symptoms

Two lawyers from Hunton & Williams have been selected by the Government of Singapore to sit on its FTA (Free Trade Agreement) Panel of Advisors.

Two lawyers from Hunton & Williams have been selected by the Government of Singapore to sit on its FTA (Free Trade Agreement) Panel of Advisors.

ALB is proud to announce the finalists for this year's SE Asia Deals of the Year Awards, which will be held at the Marina Mandarin in Singapore on 2 June

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe are slugging it out to take ownership of the recently-disbanded Coudert Brothers' Asia practice

The ever-acquisitive DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has dealt a blow to rival Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's Asian ambitions by taking the heart of Coudert Brothers' Beijing office from under its nose.

Bangkok-based attorneys Stephen Bennett and Surasak Vajasit are on the move again, this time to US firm Hunton & Williams.

Global firms are scrambling to cherrypick offices and teams from Coudert Brothers after the global firm bowed out of the legal game.

An uncertain future
When law firms first began pouring into Thailand nearly a decade ago, they had no idea the financial crisis of 1997 would make it one of the most lucrative markets in the region.