Mayer Brown has added Eiji Kobayashi as a partner in its Corporate & Securities practice. With more than 20 years’ experience representing Japan’s leading industrial conglomerates on their most complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, Koyabashi previously headed the corporate practice at Norton Rose Fulbright, and was a partner at Paul Hastings in...

Charles Russell Speechlys has added Vanessa Duff as a partner in the Family team in the firm’s Hong Kong office. Her appointment aligns and supports the firm’s Private Capital focus in the region. Joining from Withers Hong Kong, Duff brings with her over 15 years of experience advising on all aspects of family law. This encompasses issues arising from the breakdown of a relationship, including divorce, financial arrangements and separation. As many of her clients are expatriates, her expertise lies in dealing with cases which have an international perspective, with a particular interest in cases involving Hong Kong-European jurisdictional disputes. Over the years, Duff has built up an extensive international network and an abundance of connections with specialist foreign lawyers, and therefore can confidently manage multi-country cases. Much of her work involves advising on and drafting prenuptial/postnuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements and separation agreements. This is a nuanced area of her practice, which often requires a considered approach and an understanding of the interrelation with European marital regimes and marriage contracts. Duff is also known for her ability to resolve cases with complex financial issues, and those involving inherited wealth and family businesses. In addition, a large part of her practice includes advising clients on disputes involving children. This relates to custody issues, care and control and access, and child maintenance. She also deals with international relocation cases and High Court cases of child abduction. Where appropriate, Duff is dedicated to resolving disputes outside of the Court, and is a keen advocate of mediation and private...

K&L Gates has added Dominic Gregory as a finance partner in its Tokyo office. Joining from the London office of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Gregory is qualified in England and Wales, Hong Kong and Japan (as a foreign qualified lawyer – gaikokuho-jimubengoshi). He focuses his practice on project financings and project development work, mining and resource transactions, restructurings and event-driven deals. His projects experience covers all forms of renewable energy and conventional projects, including mining, oil and gas, nuclear and petrochemicals transactions, and many other types of infrastructure and asset classes, including aircraft, road, rail, ships, casinos, real estate developments, data centers, battery storage and hydrogen transactions. Gregory also has extensive experience with green finance and many aspects of sustainable business practices. He regularly lectures, writes and consults in these areas, and participates in related global bodies and committees. In addition to Tokyo, Gregory has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore and London. He has developed important client relationships in Japan and across the Asia and EMEA regions and the...

Clifford Chance has added Elizabeth Richmond in the firm’s Global Antitrust team as a partner in Sydney. She joins from Clayton Utz, where she focused on merger control advice, competition litigation and antitrust regulation. Richmond brings over 15 years of experience in antitrust and competition law. She advises clients on a range of competition-related issues, including merger control, competition litigation, cartel investigations, dawn raids and competition regulation. In the area of competition litigation, Richmond has advised on some of the very few antitrust cases to be litigated in...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has added Gauhar Mirza as a partner in its technology practice with a significant additional focus on arbitration. He will be based in Delhi-NCR. Mirza has over 13 years of experience in advising and representing technology giants, leading construction companies, PSUs, automobile and other manufacturing industries and financial institutions. He also focuses on arbitration, and handles advisory and litigation for leading social media intermediaries and other tech companies. Mirza is on the steering and advisory committees of various arbitral institutions and law colleges. He is a 2010 graduate of the Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia, New...