Morgan Lewis has continued to expand its global litigation and arbitration capabilities with the addition of Pardeep Khosa. He joins Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as a partner, and Morgan Lewis Stamford as a director, resident in the Singapore office. He has a broad practice covering commercial litigation and international arbitration, and corporate crime and investigations. Khosa regularly appears before the Singapore Courts, and has been involved in arbitrations under the major arbitral rules. He has acted for companies, high-net worth individuals, governments and statutory boards in complex and multijurisdictional disputes across various sectors, including financial services, energy, construction, engineering and infrastructure. Khosa has handled claims involving civil fraud, and cases concerning corporate and shareholder matters, joint ventures, professional negligence and defamation. His practice also covers investigations, regulatory and criminal matters, acting for both individuals and companies....

Withers has continued to build on its range of legal offerings in Tokyo with the addition of corporate partner Kazumitsu Goto, who focuses on international and cross-border corporate M&A matters. He joins from TMI Associates, where he was a partner. Goto brings vast experience representing Japanese and international clients in cross-border M&A, among other legal matters. He handles public and private M&A matters for strategic and private equity clients, cross-border joint ventures, and global capital markets transactions, including advice on financial regulation. In recent years, Goto has represented several leading Japanese companies and venture capital funds in their investments in and acquisitions of start-ups in Japan and overseas. In addition, he serves as external counsel for multiple early stage businesses, for which he provides advice on compliance matters and on their capital raising activities....

Orrick has added renewables authority Karthik Kumar as a partner in Singapore. A project development, acquisition and finance advisor with deep experience in renewable energy, Kumar has two decades of experience acting for developers, sponsors, borrowers and financial institutions on high-profile renewable energy and infrastructure projects in the Asia-Pacific region. He brings a strong focus on the renewable energy sector, with extensive experience in solar, onshore and offshore wind, biomass and waste-to-energy projects, and experience on projects in India, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand and China, among other countries. He joins from Jones Day....

Pinsent Masons has added corporate energy and technology partner Joni Henry in Sydney, Australia. Henry is a highly experienced corporate and commercial lawyer advising public and private complex M&A, joint ventures, high net worth advisory work and corporate governance, with particular focus on the energy, technology, science and industry sectors. She will boost the firm’s Asia Pacific-based corporate expertise, and will collaborate with teams across the firm’s network advising on domestic Australian and multinational mandates. Henry joins from PwC, where she has been a partner for six years leading the corporate advisory group, as well as heading up the accountancy firm’s legal teams in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane....

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has added Jian Johnson as a partner in its financing practice to be based out of the Mumbai office. Prior to joining the firm, Johnson worked in the corporate legal group at ICICI Bank for 13 years. He has serviced the project finance, markets, treasury, strategy, corporate centre and securitisation verticals at ICICI Bank, and advised on several marquee transactions, including the first IPO of Indian life and general insurers. Johnson’s experience spans the areas of derivatives, financial services M&A, financial regulatory, project finance and securitisation. He graduated from National Law School of India University Bengaluru in...