APM Terminals, a division of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has received advice from Baker McKenzie Vietnam regarding its purchase of a 49% share in Hateco Hai Phong International Container Terminal (“HHIT”), the biggest and most sophisticated deep-water port in North Vietnam, which includes two new deep-water berths in the Lach Huyen neighborhood of Hai Phong City.

Akin announced that Ibrahim Siddiki and Alexander Malahias have joined the company as co-partner-in-charge of its Riyadh office, furthering the firm’s strategic expansion in Saudi Arabia and bolstering its capacity to assist customers spearheading the Kingdom’s economic transition.

Jen Becker-Pollet, a former clerk and subcommittee staff director at the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, joined Akin today as senior counsel in its well-known lobbying and public policy practice in Washington, D.C. The addition of Jen improves the firm’s capacity to assist clients in negotiating the increasingly complicated federal financing landscape.

In order to safeguard the integrity of professional baseball and associated prediction markets, Major League Baseball and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have inked a first-of-its-kind memorandum of understanding.

We are happy to have Carly E. Roseboom join our Indianapolis office’s General Liability Service Group.

PayPay Corporation raised $880 million after completing its US IPO and listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

In relation to (i) an exchange offer for AMC Networks Inc. to exchange any and all of AMC’s outstanding 10.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2029 (Old Notes) for its newly issued 10.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2032 and (ii) the solicitation of consents from holders of the Old Notes with regard to an amendment to…

Partners Toshiro Mochizuki and Kana Morimura have joined Mayer Brown’s Tokyo office, the company announced today.

Charles Rodriguez has joined Burr & Forman as counsel in its Construction and Project Development practice division, the firm is happy to announce. He provides risk management, dispute resolution, and project execution advice on a wide range of construction-related issues to owners, developers, contractors, and other stakeholders.

Hogan Lovells, led by Thiemo Woertge and Lucie Arntz, has advised Berlin-based FemTech scale-up Clue (BioWink GmbH) on a strategic investment by Verdane.