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

Corporate partner Joseph Lee has re-joined UK firm Simmons & Simmons from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's Hong Kong Office. It is the firm's second such hire in a month, following the appointment of capital markets partner David Neuville. | 9yrs

The Hong Kong office of global law firm K&L Gates has hired Carolyn Sng as a partner in the corporate practice. She joins K&L Gates from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. | 9yrs

Corporate law firm Reed Smith has announced Lucy Dillon as its new chief knowledge officer and Steven Agnoli as its chief information officer; both started this month. | 9yrs

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has hired Clifford Chance aviation and shipping partner Nick Swinburne as a partner with the Transportation and Space Group. He will co-lead Milbank's London-based practice with James Cameron. | 9yrs

Clyde & Co has appointed Sally Sfeir-Tait as a partner in its Regulatory and Compliance team. Ms Sfeir-Tait specialises in the financial services sector and will be based in the firm's Abu Dhabi office, servicing the wider MENA region. | 9yrs

Apple has revoked Monster's authority to make licensed accessories for its devices, which Monster claims is retribution for the lawsuit it has brought against Apple unit Beats Electronics LLC. | 9yrs

Singapore-based RHTLaw Taylor Wessing has taken on Anthony Chey and Vernon Voon as partners in the firm's litigation and dispute resolution practice from Tan Kok Quan Partnership. | 9yrs

Business law firm Hall & Wilcox has hired an additional 37 team members, all coming from Sparke Helmore. They join a senior associate and five partners who moved to the firm in April. | 9yrs

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian man shot dead by police in London in July 2005 after being mistaken for a terror suspect, are challenging his case in court in Europe. | 9yrs

The Unite union is funding cases for 17 former and current employees of unidentified British airlines who claim to have been poisoned by toxic cabin air. | 9yrs

London-based law firm Leigh Day is in the initial stages of gathering clients for a group action against Foxtons with an ex-Clifford Chance lawyer likely to be the first claimant. | 9yrs

Francisco Palomo Tejada, who defended former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt against charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, was shot at least 12 times while driving in Guatemala City. | 9yrs