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Helen Wang joins the international law firm from Mayer Brown and will focus on the formation, maintenance and restructuring of investment funds, including private equity funds, hedge funds and hybrid funds.

The banking veteran has joined the real estate and investment firm in Sydney from Deutsche Bank; he will relocate to Singapore in 2025.

Singapore-based Marketa Dvorak started earlier this month at the active asset manager and was previously at Wellington Management.

The US venture capital firm has made early-stage investments in space, cybersecurity, biotech, nanotech, drones and robotics; recently promoted Chip Whittemore will lead the team.

David Fellah has been hired from Instinet LLC to lead artificial intelligence integration into Broadridge’s trading solutions offering.

Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard’s revised offer for Seven & i Holdings marks a crucial moment in Japan’s corporate deal making, assessing whether Tokyo’s shareholder initiatives can unlock value for investors; recent political turmoil could also have an impact.

The law firm, which is seeing an increase in multijurisdictional matters, will be led by global managing partners Jeff Cody, managing partner for the US, and Peter Scott, managing partner for Europe, Middle East and Asia.

The tech giant plans to open a cloud region to help boost the country’s digital economy, where the government wants to enhance its AI capabilities and to create 3,000 smart factories by 2030.