Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has added Abhileen Chaturvedi as a partner in its dispute resolution practice. He will be based in Mumbai. Chaturvedi has over 12 years of experience in representing and advising clients on both domestic and cross border disputes. He has represented companies in the banking and finance, construction, energy, infrastructure, mining, technology and telecom sector, before judicial forums in India and institutional and ad hoc arbitral tribunals. Besides arbitrations, Chaturvedi has acted for clients in commercial and white-collar crime litigation, and bankruptcy matters, and has represented them before various judicial forums. Beyond commercial dispute representation, he has advised clients on contractual claims, BITs executed by the Government of India and dispute resolution procedures before arbitration tribunals. Chaturvedi is a graduate from Symbiosis Law School, Pune in 2009. He has also pursued an LLM in International Dispute Settlement from the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies in 2015-16, where he focused on commercial and investment arbitration and Public International...

Moreover, Baker McKenzie has added leading FDA regulatory lawyer Xin Tao as a partner in Washington, DC, joining the firm’s growing food and drug regulatory team, and bringing scientific background, deep experience in food technology and East Asia. For more than a decade, Tao has advised companies on how to navigate evolving regulatory environments with innovative legal strategies that support their commercialization of consumer products made with emerging technologies. His practice focuses on novel food and drug applications that require FDA review and FDA Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) compliance. Tao has extensive experience advising food technology companies and investors on developing and marketing innovative products, including cell-cultured meat protein derived from microbial fermentation and bioengineering. A former research biochemist, he brings a deep understanding of the complex scientific issues that relate to the FDA’s legal and regulatory requirements, enabling him to help clients with all phases of product development, manufacturing and marketing. Leveraging his scientific background, he has also worked extensively on FDA enforcement actions and consumer class action litigations involving environmental contaminants in foods, such as heavy metals, PFAS, and California’s Proposition 65- listed chemicals. Born and raised in China, Tao is also well-equipped to assist global companies in adapting to the evolving regulatory regime of China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), formerly known as China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA). In addition to US-based clients, he has also worked extensively with Chinese and Japanese food and pharmaceutical companies. He earned his BS in Biotechnology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, his MS in Biochemistry from Texas A&M, and his JD from Georgetown University Law...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has added Siddharth Hariani as a partner in its corporate practice, with a special focus in real estate sector. He will be based in Mumbai. Hariani has over 18 years of experience in advising corporates, funds / investors in the real estate sector and real estate developers. He focuses on general corporate, M&A and investment in the real estate sector. Hariani is a graduate from Government Law College, Mumbai in...

  Tilleke & Gibbins has added Thai capital markets veteran Yaowarote Klinboon to the firm’s Bangkok office. Klinboon joins as a partner and head of capital markets, alongside four associates who will further bolster the firm’s existing capital markets team. With over 20 years of experience in domestic and international capital markets, Klinboon is one of Thailand’s most prominent capital markets lawyers. She is experienced with securities offerings under Rule 144A/Regulation S of the US Securities Act, the Rules and Regulations of the SGX-ST, and with the requirements of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. She is also adept at advising public listed companies on general corporate matters, corporate governance and M&A, and she actively advises both issuers and underwriters on international and domestic offerings of equity and debt instruments. Klinboon joins from the Bangkok office of a leading American law firm, and has also previously worked with a boutique securities law firm, a leading Thai law firm, and as a legal officer in both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Stock Exchange of Thailand. She is accompanied by senior associates Karinevidch Olivero, Phatamol Phisitbuntoon and Sittiwate Jewsittiprapai, and by associate Wisara...