http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp en-us 05/25/2013 Copyright 2008 incisivemedia. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/law/international/international_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp A nightclub operator has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a scam that used Russian and Eastern European "B-Girls" to lure wealthy tourists into secret bars where they were fleeced with bogus bills for alcohol and caviar. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202600719307 2013-05-20 18:07:47 A Hong Kong court has permitted a senior U.K. barrister to act on a criminal appeal over the objections of the prosecution and the Hong Kong Bar Association, which had argued that there were no issues of unusual difficulty or complexity in the case. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202600529191 2013-05-17 18:24:33 Clyde & Co has announced plans to open a Beijing office. Energy and infrastructure partner Lynia Lau will lead the new office, relocating from Hong Kong along with an associate. The office will focus on advising Chinese energy and mining companies on outbound transactions in the Middle East, Australia, Africa and Latin America. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202599112918 2013-05-08 14:36:20 U.K. firm Addleshaw Goddard will launch a Hong Kong office later this month. The new office will be jointly headed by the 400-lawyer firm's newly appointed international managing partner, Andrew Carpenter, and international arbitration partner Jonathan Tattersall, who heads Addleshaw's engineering, projects and construction litigation team. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202598966303 2013-05-07 15:54:38 U.K. firm Stephenson Harwood has opened a Beijing office to be staffed by legal director James Zhang, most recently a partner at Zhong Yin Law Firm, and one other legal director, who will join at a later date. The office will initially support the firm's corporate and maritime law groups, with plans for future hiring focused on international trade, arbitration and asset finance practices. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202598691787 2013-05-06 13:27:15 Paris-based Gide Loyrette Nouel has hired Paul-Emmanuel Benachi as a partner for its Shanghai office. Benachi joins from French firm Lefevre Pelletier & associes, where he was head of the Shanghai office. He primarily advises foreign companies on their China investments and acquisitions. He also counsels them on Chinese real estate and labor law issues. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202598036966 2013-04-30 17:34:19 France has legalized gay marriage after a wrenching national debate that has exposed deep conservatism in the nation's heartland and triggered huge protests that tapped into deep discontent with the Socialist government. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202597255999 2013-04-24 14:56:47 The British Supreme Court has decided partially in favor of news-clipping service Meltwater in its dispute with U.K. newspaper publishers, finding that Meltwater's customers and anyone else in the U.K. cannot be prosecuted for viewing news stories online. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202596863559 2013-04-22 18:17:24 Singapore's High Court has rejected the application of a senior U.K. barrister to act as defense counsel for a former megachurch fund manager charged in a $20 million embezzlement case. Justice V. K. Rajah ruled that the case's high profile did not constitute a "special reason" sufficient to admit a foreign counsel in a criminal proceeding. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202596485277 2013-04-18 19:00:41 The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions against 18 Russians over human rights violations, but avoided some prominent officials whose inclusion could have enflamed U.S.-Russian relations. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202595935439 2013-04-15 19:24:19