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UK-headquartered Bird & Bird has announced plans to launch a Tokyo office to be led by newly hired corporate partner Hiro Iwamura. Iwamura joins from Ashurst, where he headed the firm’s UK/European-Japanese practice.
U.S. law firm Loeb & Loeb has expanded its capital markets team in Hong Kong by hiring Shirley Lau and Polly Liu as partners from Lau Horton & Wise, the Hong Kong association firm of CMS that was founded by Lau.
Indian law firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has advised Vodafone Idea on its 180-billion-rupee ($2.15 billion) further public offering (FPO). The issuance is the largest successful Indian FPO and the third-largest offering of public equity shares in India.