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Lateral hires

Name

Leaving

Going to

Practice

Location

Position

Rod Brown

Latham & Watkins

Mayer Brown JSM

Corporate & Securities

Singapore 

Partner

Bjӧrn Gehle

Pinsent Masons

Reed Smith

Arbitration

Dubai

Partner

Justin Gross

Ryan Lawyers

Withers 

Hospitality

Sydney, Singapore 

Partner

Benjamin Hirasawa

DLA Piper

Clyde & Co

Hospitality

Singapore

Partner, APAC hospitality-head

Firoz Hussein Ahmad Jamaluddin

Hafarizam Wan & Aisha Mubarak

Zaid Ibrahim & Co

Litigation

Kuala Lumpur

Partner

Chen Leiming

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Ant Financial, Alibaba Group Holding

Capital Markets

Hong Kong

Global general counsel

Dirk Walker

King & Wood Mallesons

Jones Day

Energy

 

Beijing

Partner

Robert Williams

Ryan Lawyers

Withers 

Hotels 

Sydney, Singapore 

Partner

Dina J. Yin

King & Wood Mallesons

Jones Day

Energy

 

Beijing

Partner

Joshua Zimmerman

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Proskauer Rose

Corporate

Hong Kong

Partner

Anthony Hague

Simmons & Simmons

Ashurst

Commercial

Tokyo

Counsel

Vivian Chen

 

Withers 

 

 

Associate

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Name

Firm

Practice

Position

Location

Seiji Akimoto

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

M&A

Partner

Bangkok

Benjamin R. Carale

Latham & Watkins 

Capital Markets

Partner

Hong Kong

Omar M. Elsayed

Latham & Watkins 

M&A

Partner

Riyadh

Sungjin Kang

Latham & Watkins 

Project Development & Finance

Partner

Hong Kong

Masakazu Kumagai

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

M&A

Partner

 

Akira Matsushita

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

M&A

Partner

 

Shigeki Okatani

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Finance

Partner

 

Shiho Ono

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Dispute Resolution

Partner

 

Christopher Lester

Latham & Watkins 

M&A

Partner

Dubai

Shinichiro Yokota

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Dispute Resolution

Partner

 

Mitsuhiro Gemba

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Finance

Of Counsel

 

Satoshi Ikemura

 

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Information Technology

Of Counsel

 

Masahito Saeki

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Finance

Of Counsel

 

 

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