Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has added Jay Parikh as a Partner in its Corporate Practice with his team. He will be working out of the firm’s Mumbai and Ahmedabad offices. Parikh has over 18 years of considerable experience in M&A, joint ventures, private equity, banking & finance, restructurings & insolvency, capital markets and general corporate advisory. His core practice area is Corporate Finance and M&A that involves structuring, negotiating and documenting financing transactions at all business stages. Parikh also advises Private Equity funds on investment transactions, including those involving listed companies. He graduated from NUJS, Kolkata in 2006, and had started his career at erstwhile Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co (AMSS) Mumbai. The firm has also added Alok Sonker as a Partner in its Corporate Practice, along with his team. They will be working out of Mumbai, Ahmedabad and GIFT City offices. With over 15 years of experience, Sonker focuses on general corporate advisory and transactional matters, which mostly include Private Equity (fund set-up and transactions) and M&A transactions. He has a keen interest in economics and geo-strategy, and has spent majority of his time in sharpening his knowledge and skills in relation to the same. Sonker graduated in 2006 from Lucknow University, and completed his LLM in 2008 from National Law School of India University Bangalore. Moreover, the firm has added Mohit Gogia as a Partner in its Corporate Practice. He will be based in New Delhi. Gogia has over 18 years of experience, and has been leading on M&A, private equity and cross-border investment transactions, and on general corporate matters. He is admitted to practice law in India...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has added Ms Sowmya Kumar as a Partner in its Employment Practice. She will be based in New Delhi – NCR office. Kumar brings more than a decade of experience in advising clients on all aspects of India’s employment and social security laws. Her approach to human resource laws combines the depth of Indian jurisprudence, along with the pragmatism of market practices. A graduate of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, Kumar also holds an LLM (with distinction) from University College London. She started her career at the erstwhile Amarchand & Mangaldas Suresh A Shroff and Co...

Blumenthal Richter & Sumet has added partner Promboon Sookatup and her team to the firm’s Tax & Customs and M&A Practice. With over a decade of experience, Sookatup specializes in tax disputes, M&A-related tax structures and complex corporate set-ups across a variety of industries. Her active role in shaping Thailand’s tax policies through positions on key governmental and private sector committees further bolsters her impressive profile. Sookatup holds an LLB from Thammasat University, an LLM in International Commercial Law from Queen Mary University of London, and an MBA from Chulalongkorn University. She returns to the firm, where she began her legal...

K&L Gates Straits Law, the Singapore office of global law firm K&L Gates, has further expanded its capabilities with the additions of partners David Kuo and Meraj Noor. The pair joins the firm’s Singapore office from DLA Piper. Kuo is a US-qualified lawyer admitted in California and a foreign registered lawyer in Singapore with 20 years of experience spanning the United States, Hong Kong and Singapore. During his tenure in Asia, he has successfully built a broad corporate practice, including leading outbound M&A, and has become a trusted advisor to promoters and other clients operating across the region. The legal, cultural, and political insights he provides have been key in helping Asia-based clients pursue opportunities in overseas markets, particularly in the US. Kuo also advises on private equity transactions and emerging company representation, as well as on corporate finance transactions for clients operating across the technology, life sciences, energy and real estate sectors. On the other hand, Noor is an Indian-qualified lawyer and a registered foreign lawyer in Singapore, who has 16 years of experience practicing in Dubai, India and Singapore. Noor focuses his corporate practice on matters touching on Southern Asia, particularly on India-related transactions. He also brings experience across a wide spectrum of cross-border corporate deals, with a specific focus on capital markets...

Addleshaw Goddard has appointed highly regarded corporate partner Matt Gorman as part of its continued strategy to establish a market leading global infrastructure practice in the ASEAN region. Bringing over 20 years of experience advising clients across South East Asia in the energy and natural resources, transportation, logistics and media and technology sectors, Gorman specialises in corporate finance, M&A, joint ventures and equity issues by public and private companies, as well as private equity and venture capital. He arrives from Reed Smith after joining to launch its Singapore corporate practice in 2015. Prior to that, he established and led the Singapore corporate practice of Stephenson Harwood for seven years. Gorman’s client base is especially active throughout Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and India, and he was co-head of Reed Smith’s Indonesia Business Team. His arrival brings the number of the firm’s Singapore-based partners to...