Ince & Co(英士) law firm news

The head of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Beijing office will be stepping down from the helm of the US firm this year to launch his political career with Singapore’s largest opposition party – the Worker’s Party – in the upcoming general elections to be held on 7 May 2011.

Ince & Co and Baker Botts have acted on the first-ever floating storage and regassification unit (FSRU) in Southeast Asia – a deal linked to the joint venture project between Indonesian energy companies Pertamina and PGN, for Indonesia’s first FSRU terminal in West Java.

Shipping specialist law firm Ince & Co has today launched Ince Law Alliance, a formal law alliance (FLA) with a newly-formed local entity, Incisive Law – to target English and Singapore advisory work in the maritime sector. Ince & Co will only be the second foreign firm to enter into such an alliance in Singapore after Wikborg Rein’s formation of Pan Asia Law Corporation in 2008. It is also the first English maritime firm to take this step.

Wang Jing & Co (WJC) have promoted Cao Yanghui and Xu Jun to the firm’s partnership. Both Cao and Xu are lawyers in the firm’s shipping practice.

近日，广东敬海晋升曹阳辉及徐军为律所合伙人。两者都是海事海商方面的专家。至此，敬海合伙人增加到17人。

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

WongPartnership and Herbert Smith have been voted the best domestic and international law firms to work for in Singapore, according to ALB’s Employer of Choice 2010 survey.

Ince & Co has gained its first insurance partner in Singapore after the firm transferred partner Iain Anderson from London.

Ince & Co has transferred Denys Hickey to its Singapore office citing an increase in demand for arbitration services and oil & gas activity in the Lion City.

Holman Fenwick Willan has broadened its reach in the Middle East by establishing alliances in both Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia.

The Singapore and London offices of Ince & Co have helped structure a unique Islamic finance deal for Malaysian Islamic shipping fund Safeena.

Although trade volumes and financing work remain at low levels, maritime and shipping law firms in Asia aren’t necessarily thrown by the stormy weather.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer made jaws drop as the firm managed to boost its average profit per equity partner (PEP) by nearly 25 percent to more than £1m

ALB Special Report Korea including items on: competition amongst Korean law firms; Korea shipping lines; antitrust law; and the opening of the korean legal market to international law firms.

Andrew Chan has taken on the role of senior partner in Hong Kong at shipping law firm Ince & Co, after the retirement of former senior partner Simon Latham at the end of June

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Andrew Chan has taken on the role of senior partner in Hong Kong at shipping law firm Ince & Co, after the retirement of former senior partner Simon Latham at the end of June.

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