8 ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS – DECEMBER 2023 WWW.LEGALBUSINESSONLINE.COM BRI EFS APPOINTMENTS KAJAL ASWANI LEAVING Gall Solicitors JOINING Hugill & Ip PRACTICE Family Law LOCATION Hong Kong FU DUAN LEAVING Alibaba JOINING Haiwen & Partners PRACTICE M&A LOCATION Hong Kong/Beijing PARAS LALWANI LEAVING Drew & Napier JOINING Bayfront Law PRACTICE International Arbitration LOCATION Singapore RUARIDH GUY LEAVING Ince & Co JOINING Squire Patton Boggs PRACTICE Shipping LOCATION Hong Kong STEPHEN HOWARD LEAVING White & Case JOINING Goodwin Procter PRACTICE Debt Finance LOCATION Hong Kong GERALD LICNACHAN LEAVING Reed Smith JOINING CMS PRACTICE Energy M&A LOCATION Singapore SIVA SUBRAMANIAM LEAVING Herbert Smith Freehills JOINING Allen & Gledhill PRACTICE Aviation Finance LOCATION Singapore MIURA TO CONTINUE OVERSEAS EXPANSION WITH HCMC OFFICE Japanese law firm Miura & Partners (M&P) has announced that it will open an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in February 2024. This will be M&P’s third overseas office after Jakarta and San Francisco, both of which opened in April this year to meet demand from clients that are looking abroad in the wake of Japan’s shrinking domestic population and economy. However, Vietnam is already a crowded place for Japanese law firms, with most of the country’s largest firms – including Nishimura & Asahi, TMI Associates, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu and Anderson Mori & Tomotsune – having offices in either Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi, if not both. Anderson Mori recently announced the opening of its Hanoi office, some eight years after it set up shop in HCMC. Miura partner Ryhoichi Inoue, who currently heads M&P’s Jakarta office, will also oversee the Ho Chi Minh office in the initial months. He advises on M&A, disputes, restructuring and bankruptcy. Two junior Vietnamese lawyers have already joined the new office, and M&P aims to provide legal support to companies from Japan, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries on issues such as M&A and compliance, the firm said in a statement. CRAIG LUTON LEAVING Maples and Calder JOINING Mourant PRACTICE Investment Funds LOCATION Singapore KENT PHILLIPS LEAVING Hogan Lovells JOINING Norton Rose Fulbright PRACTICE International Arbitration LOCATION Singapore Image: saiko3p/Shutterstock.com
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