Bharucha & Partners (B&P) has added Advani & Co founder Hiroo Advani and his team, demonstrating the shared vision of Advani and B&P in the practice of law. He joins as a Senior Partner at the firm. Advani is one of India’s finest arbitration practitioners with proven excellence in handling complex, high-stakes disputes in arbitration across institutions. He furthers B&P’s skillsets and capabilities, and adds to the formidable MP Bharucha – often described as a ’weapon of choice’ in arbitration – and Sneha Jaisingh, who has rapidly established herself as a leading Disputes practitioner in the country. Following his tenure as a member of the SIAC Court, Advani presently holds office as a member of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) Court, and also appears before Indian courts. Most recently, he was lead counsel in the Group of Companies Doctrine case where, in a landmark decision of a Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India chaired by the Chief Justice of India, non-signatories to an arbitration clause were held to be subject to arbitration...

Stephenson Harwood‘s alliance firm in Singapore, Virtus Law, has strengthened its corporate practice with the arrival of partner Eunice Yao. She has extensive experience advising on matters relating to capital markets, M&As and FinTech. Yao supports on IPOs, equity and debt fund raising for companies listed in Singapore, and company secretarial matters. As well as working in private practice, she also has notable experience working in-house with the largest consumer bank in...

JSA Advocates & Solicitors has added Nisha Kaur Uberoi as Chair of the Competition Practice. Uberoi joined with her team of 27 attorneys, including two retained partners, Harshita Singh Parmar and Pranav Satyam, to be located across Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore offices. To be based out of the Mumbai office, Uberoi will work closely with JSA’s Delhi-based Competition Law specialist and Equity Partner Vaibhav Choukse and his team. Widely regarded as one of India’s foremost competition lawyers, she brings with her an extensive expertise in complex areas like merger control, cartels, abuse of dominance and the digital economy. She represents clients before the Competition Commission of India, the NCLAT and the Supreme Court. Uberoi comes with more than two decades of experience. Before joining the firm, she was the National Head of the Competition practice at Trilegal. Previously, she co-headed the competition practice at AZB & Partners, and headed the Competition practice at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. She is an alumnus of the National Law School of India University Bangalore and National University of...

DaHui has added two distinguished new partners to its growing firm. Kevin Liu joins with a decade of experience specializing in complex securities offerings, listings, M&A and other capital market transactions. His diverse background spans sectors such as advanced semiconductor manufacturing, new energy, and healthcare and life sciences. He has also advised leading investment institutions on private equity and post-investment management. Before joining the firm, Liu practiced at Fangda Partners and King & Wood Mallesons. He is renowned for his track record in major capital market restructurings, and he also represented investors in their strategic investment in a multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy reorganization of a major Chinese tech conglomerate. Liu guides companies through the entire capital cycle, and he has pioneered legal strategies for prominent Chinese companies to exit offshore stock markets and relist on China’s A-share markets via interim privatization. Liu has extensive regional network ties in Shanghai, Shenzhen and beyond, and experience in outbound business transactions. He holds an LLM from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in law from Southwest University of Political Science and Law. Zhouwei (Wayne) Wang joins as a partner in the Wuhan office’s corporate team. Prior to joining the firm, Wang worked as in-house counsel for a leading ICT company, and for a prominent multinational automotive company. His extensive in-house experience gave him deep insights into bringing innovative product lines and new business models to market, and his strategic approach and keen understanding of industry trends help him deal with major market players and their complex legal issues. Some of Wang’s notable achievements include leading a multi-million-dollar...

Phoenix Legal has added Piyush Mishra as partner in the firm’s Mumbai office. He joins with two other partners, Rohit Sharma and Shivani Sinha, along with a team of four lawyers, from Luthra and Luthra Law Office India. Joining the firm as National Head of Bankruptcy and Restructuring, Mishra brings extensive expertise in insolvency, restructuring, finance, aviation finance and infrastructure. He specializes in Restructuring and Insolvency, Special Situation, Aviation Finance and Structured Finance. Mishra has acted on pre-IBC resolutions, CIRP process and liquidations, and has advised on acquisition of infrastructure projects and cross border investments. He has also worked with AZB Partners, Cyril Amarchand & Mangaldas, as partner, and Allen & Overy (London) and Amarchand & Mangaldas as associate. Sharma has worked with Bharucha & Partners, as a partner, and AZB & Partners and Tier-I Kuwaiti law firm ASAR-Al Ruwayeh and Partners. He has also worked as Vice-President at IDFC. To be based in the firm’s Mumbai office, Sharma is primarily involved in the banking and finance, and advises on a wide range of financing matters, such as securitisation, debenture issuances, structured finance and ECB facilities. Sinha has joined the firm’s Delhi office. She is primarily involved in the restructuring and insolvency, banking and finance, and structured finance practices. Sinha regularly advises a diverse clientele on a wide range of financing matters. She also does court / MCA approved schemes of amalgamations / arrangements, and handles contentious matters related to her practice areas. Prior to joining the firm, Sinha has also worked with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, Link Legal and Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff &...