Asia Appointments: Week of Apr. 27

Lateral hires

Name	Leaving	Going to	Practice	Location	Position
Victor Chen	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	Paul Hastings	M&A	Hong Kong	Partner
Ken Cheung	Berwin Leighton Paisner	Bird & Bird	M&A	Singapore	Partner
Simon Cowled	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom	King & Spalding	Energy	Singapore	Partner
Douglas Freeman	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	Paul Hastings	M&A	Hong Kong	Partner
Alfred Wu	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	Norton Rose Fulbright	Dispute Resolution	Hong Kong	Partner
Philip Nunn	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	Norton Rose Fulbright	Dispute Resolution	Hong Kong	Senior Consultant
Muriel Cheng	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	Norton Rose Fulbright	Dispute Resolution	Hong Kong	Associate
Anita Fong	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	Norton Rose Fulbright	Dispute Resolution	Hong Kong	Associate
Kevin Hong	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	Norton Rose Fulbright	Dispute Resolution	Hong Kong	Associate

Promotions

Name	Firm	Practice	Location	Position
Nicky Davies	Norton Rose Fulbright	Banking And Finance	Singapore	Partner
Ben Ewing	CMS Legal	Energy, Environment	Muscat	Partner
Christopher Hunt	Herbert Smith Freehills	Disputes	Tokyo	Partner
Vicky Jones	Norton Rose Fulbright	Banking And Finance	Singapore	Partner
Tassanai Kiratisountorn	Norton Rose Fulbright	Banking And Finance	Bangkok	Partner
Craig Loveless	Norton Rose Fulbright	Corporate, M&A, Securities	Singapore	Partner
Richard Norridge	Herbert Smith Freehills	Disputes	Hong Kong	Partner
John O’Connor	CMS Legal	Corporate	Dubai	Partner
Alexis Papasolomontos	Herbert Smith Freehills	Corporate M&A	Tokyo	Partner
James Parker	Norton Rose Fulbright	Corporate, M&A, Securities	Hong Kong	Partner
Kate Sherrard	Norton Rose Fulbright	Banking And Finance	Singapore	Partner
Mark Robinson	Herbert Smith Freehills	Corporate (TMT)	Singapore	Partner
Elaine Wong	Herbert Smith Freehills	Disputes	Tokyo	Partner
Stephen Woods	Norton Rose Fulbright	Corporate, M&A, Securities	Singapore	Partner
Allan Yee	Norton Rose Fulbright	Corporate, M&A, Securities	Hong Kong	Partner

Appointments

by Karuna Jainpalli | 28 Apr 2015

Former Fried Frank HK partners join NRF and Paul Hastings, Bird & Bird recruits M&A partner in Singapore, three firms announce their global round of partner promotions, and more in this week’s Asia Appointments table.

Deals

STB, K&E, Skadden lead on Alibaba’s $1.5 bln purchase of AutoNavi

by Kanishk Verghese, Reuters | 14 Apr 2014

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is advising Alibaba Group Holding on its $1.5 billion acquisition of Chinese digital mapping and navigation firm AutoNavi Holdings, which turned to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom for legal advice.

Deals

Five firms star in Hilton’s $1.95 bln hotel sale to Chinese insurer

by Kanishk Verghese | 08 Oct 2014

Skadden, Simpson Thacher, Dentons, Greenberg Traurig and Fried Frank have scored lead advisory roles in Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc’s sale of its flagship Waldorf Astoria New York hotel to Chinese insurance company Anbang Insurance Group Co for $1.95 billion.

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