Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has hired capital markets partner Shuang Zhao in Hong Kong. | 9yrs

The Delhi High Court has set aside the state government's order rejecting an application by online taxi firm Uber Technologies for a licence to operate in the capital, allowing the US-based company to ply its trade in Delhi and reapply for a licence. | 9yrs

Offshore law firm Harneys has established an office in Tokyo as part of an expansion plan that saw the firm open its doors in Hong Kong in 2005 and in Singapore last year. | 9yrs

CEO of AdventBalance Ken Jagger has predicted that traditional Australian firms will continue to struggle to maintain their market share, as US and UK firms flood the market and boutique specialist firms increase their dominance. | 9yrs

Baker & McKenzie has expanded its disputes practice with the hire of Joel Greer as a partner in its Tokyo office. | 9yrs

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired oil and gas lawyer Paul Greening as a partner in the firm's Hong Kong office from Vinson & Elkins. | 9yrs

Holman Fenwick Willan has entered into a formal law alliance (FLA) in Singapore with local law firm AsiaLegal, with the entity operating under the name HFW AsiaLegal. | 9yrs

DLA Piper has announced that Michael Bowen, Scott Gibson and Marc Wilshaw of Perth corporate law firm Hardy Bowen have joined the firm as partners, in a move which significantly increases DLA Piper's corporate capability. | 9yrs

Latham & Watkins private equity and M&A partner Graeme Sloan has joined Morrison & Foerster as the firm's global M&A co-chair and London corporate head. | 9yrs

The Government has begun discussions with the Bar Council of India and other stake holders to open the legal services sector to foreign firms in a calibrated manner, according to Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher. | 9yrs

US-headquartered Shearman & Sterling has established an on-the-ground presence in Saudi Arabia in affiliation with Abdulaziz Alassaf & Partners. | 9yrs

In an escalation of Islamist militant attacks on the judiciary, Egypt's top public prosecutor Hisham Barakat died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his home in Cairo. | 9yrs

Japanese law firm Anderson Mori and Tomotsune has expanded into Vietnam with the opening of an office in Ho Chi Minh City. The firm also established a Jakarta desk in the office of Roosdiono & Partners this May. | 9yrs

Chinese law firm Yingke has opened an office in Greece, its 27th overseas. The new office will work in a strategic partnership between Yingke and Machas & Partners, an Athens-based law firm founded in 2011 that also has offices in London and Monaco. | 9yrs

Wealth manager Towry has named Ashcourt Rowan's Rehana Hasan its general counsel, after the company acquired rival Ashcourt in May. | 9yrs

TSMP Law Corporation has hired Anand Nalachandran as a director from local firm Braddell Brothers and promoted counsel Yvonne Lee to the same position. | 9yrs

Proskauer Rose's City office has boosted its finance practice with DLA Piper's leveraged finance and banking partner Alexander Griffith, having hired Baker & McKenzie's private equity rainmaker Bruno Bertrand-Delfau last week. | 9yrs

Mumbai and Delhi-based law firm SNG & Partners has launched its second international office in Doha and expanded its first in Singapore with the hire of associate partner Kshitij Dua. | 9yrs

Eversheds has announced the launch of Eversheds Consulting in Asia with the expansion of its contract lawyer service Agile to Singapore and Hong Kong. | 9yrs

Leeds-based law firm Needle Partners has opened a new marketing office in Kuala Lumpur to promote its English law and white label service, called Needle Network. | 9yrs