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Lynell Tuffery Huria joins Kāhui Legal in Wellington as partner
09 August 2021Huria is one of New Zealand’s leading indigenous IP lawyers, and the first Māori patent attorney.
Nancy Roy joins Lall & Sethi as partner
09 August 2021Roy will lead the firm’s litigation team from its New Delhi offices
P. Anthony Sammi joins Latham & Watkins in New York
09 August 2021High-profile litigator also named global vice chair of the firm’s IP litigation practice.
Xiaoqiang Qian joins Haiwen & Partners in Beijing
09 August 2021Qian brings IP, antitrust expertise to the firm.
Biswajit Chatterjee joins Hogan Lovells corporate practice in Singapore
03 August 2021Chatterjee focuses on capital markets, M&A and private equity transactions.
Debra Osborne joins Jones Day’s disputes practice in Perth
03 August 2021Osborne is part of a four-member team that joins the firm’s global disputes practice.
Former Apple senior patent counsel joins Brownstein in Los Angeles
03 August 2021Marcus Reeslund will oversee complex patent portfolios, patent prosecution and sophisticated IP asset analysis.
Mitsuhiro Imamura joins K&L Gates in Tokyo
03 August 2021Imamura, who brings team of IP paralegals with him, will allow the firm to file Japanese trademark, patent applications.
Nirupam Lodha joins Khaitan & Co as partner
03 August 2021Delhi-based Lodha assists with complex, high-value IP and technology transactions.
Subhash Bhutoria rejoins L&L Partners in Delhi
03 August 2021Bhutoria had been running his own firm, Krida Legal.
Wenhao Chen joins Merits & Tree as dispute resolution, regulatory partner
03 August 2021Shanghai-based Chen noted for work in cyber security, corporate compliance and anti-bribery work.
AIPPI names Judith Willert as new executive director
03 August 2021Willert will be based in Zurich, where she will report to secretary general and lead the general secretariat.
Tamara El Shibib joins Gowling WLG UAE in Dubai
28 July 2021El Shibib specializes in patent law, technology market analysis, tech transfer and IP commercialization.
Spruson & Ferguson appoints three principals among 14 Asia, Australia promotions
28 July 2021Ken Bolton, May Chan and Adelia Lin promoted to principal.
Giangiacomo Olivi to lead Central Asia IP&T group for Dentons
13 July 2021Milan-based Olivi joins Moscow-based Denis Voevodin to develop the firm’s Central Asia practice.