McDermott Will & Emery has hired a three-lawyer team from the Singapore office of Squire Patton Boggs, the second strike at its US rival in six months. Corporate partner Alfred Chia has made the move alongside counsels Dawn Tan and Melissa Kwek. Chia is understood to have left his previous firm three months ago and […]
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is to launch an office in Singapore with the addition of a partner from Watson Farley & Williams. The firm will open the outpost to accommodate the arrival of partner Jon Thursby, who was officially hired in November 2020 but spent the last eight months on secondment to Blueleaf Energy, a […]
PwC’s affiliated Hong Kong law firm has expanded its IP practice with the hire of a long-serving partner from Jones Day. Tiang & Partners, part of PwC Legal’s global network, has appointed Chiang Ling Li as a partner to lead its IP practice. Li joins from Jones Day where she was a partner from 2008. […]
Latham & Watkins has announced a trio of new energy partners to its Singapore office with the additions of two partners from Shearman & Sterling and one from Freshfields. All three partners will bolsters Latham’s energy and infrastructure group with Sidharth Bhasin and James Clayton-Payne joining from Shearman & Sterling, while Don Stokes joins from […]
Hong Kong firm MB Kemp, which was set up by a team that left Stephenson Harwood’s regional base last year, has expanded internationally with three new offices. MB Kemp’s new London operations will be spearheaded by partner Marco Pocci, who left Stephenson Harwood’s Hong Kong office after a brief stint of less than two years. […]
Former DLA Piper China chair and capital markets veteran Liu Wei has joined PRC firm Jingtian & Gongcheng’s Hong Kong office with three other senior lawyers. Liu Wei’s move to Beijing-headquartered Jingtian & Gongcheng comes after a 15-year tenure at DLA Piper. He was instrumental in building up the firm’s Greater China business, especially in […]
Norton Rose Fulbright’s Hong Kong office has added two partners, including former White & Case private equity partner Peggy Wang who left the US firm nearly two years ago. Peggy Wang will join Norton Rose Fulbright along with new partner Victor Sim, who was previously a counsel in White & Case’s debt finance and restructuring […]
Taylor Wessing has launched an agency focused on intellectual property in Beijing, as its practice faces rising local workloads. The agency, which will have an exclusive partnership with the firm’s trademark and IP practice, is called Beijing Tailun IP Agency and will guarantee a degree of market access previously restricted due to the Chinese legal […]
A Hong Kong partner at Kirkland & Ellis has landed a new role as the general counsel of Webull Financial, a fast-growing Chinese-owned electronic trading platform. Benjamin James left Kirkland this month following a nine-year tenure as a partner in the firm’s Hong Kong office. A seasoned lawyer focusing on corporate and US securities law […]
Clifford Chance is to close its Seoul office following a review, the first downsizing of the firm’s network since the onset of the pandemic. The firm has concluded that it will be able to serve Korean clients from its other Asia-Pacific outposts and through local alliances. The lawyers in the office are understood to be […]
Stephenson Harwood is considering a local tie up in Shanghai to grow its Greater China practice, a year after the firm closed in Beijing and restructured its Hong Kong office. Stephenson Harwood’s Greater China managing partner Jamie Stranger has revealed that the firm is formulating a new strategy having completed a major overhaul of its […]
A corporate partner in Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s Hong Kong office has moved to one of the firm’s clients Grab as group general counsel. Christopher Betts has relocated to Singapore to take up the new in-house role. He joined the Singapore-headquartered “super app” in the same month when Grab formalised its plan to […]
Italian heavyweight Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners is launching an office in Shanghai in its first international expansion for four years. The Shanghai office is Gianni Origoni’s eleventh office globally, and its second in Asia. It launched in Hong Kong in 2014 and signed a formal alliance agreement with Chinese firm Han Kun Law […]
Clyde & Co‘s star magic circle hire in China, Beijing managing partner Patrick Zheng, has left after four years to join independent firm Llinks Law. Zheng will be a partner in Llinks’ cross-border dispute resolution practice. In his new firm, Zhang will join co-founder Charles Qin, as well as partner Peiming Yang, in leading the firm’s […]
Addleshaw Goddard has brought in veteran Asia head Bob Charlton in from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) to head up its Asia Pacific presence. Charlton will join Addleshaws after heading up BCLP’s Asia presence since 2014. Bryan Cave merged with Berwin Leighton Paisner in February this year to form BCLP. This new appointment will mean […]
Shanda Group general counsel Li Han has exited the company after six years to join O’Melveny in Hong Kong. Han, who led the legal team at the global investment firm, is returning to private practice as a corporate partner. Prior to joining Shanda, she was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell for over three […]
Ashurst has boosted its Asian banking and finance practice with the hires of Fangda Partners partner Eric Tan and Allen & Overy (A&O) counsel Daniel Lau. Tan specialises in acquisition finance, cross border lending, structured finance and other banking matters.
Cooley has launched a second Chinese office in Beijing, hiring Ropes & Gray counsel Xun Zeng as a partner. Zeng was at his former firm for over three years, first as an associate in the private investment funds group and then as a counsel in the same practice based in Hong Kong.
Gowling WLG has extended its “best friend” relationship with Indian law firm Naik Naik & Company from its UK LLP to the firm’s Canada arm as post-merger integration continues.
Osborne Clarke’s best friend firm in India has opened its second office in the country to tap into the region’s burgeoning technology markets.
Linklaters has once again claimed the title as the international firm seen to have the most robust India practice, while Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has shot up to second place, research reveals.
The Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) has contacted its members saying the opening of the country’s legal services market to foreign firms is inevitable and imminent.
Kennedys has launched its first India desk, becoming the latest firm to increase its focus in the country ahead of a possible market liberalisation.
India has taken one step forward and two steps back in its move to liberalise its legal market following an unexpected move by the Bar Council of India (BCI) this month.
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Wuhan was relatively unknown on the global stage until it became the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak this year. However, its legal services market has been growing, with eight of The Lawyer’s China Top 30 based in the city. Dentons is just one of the firms currently on lockdown. Dentons’ Wuhan managing partner Lv Chenkui told […]
Overseas investors are looking to China for shareholding opportunities in foreign-invested securities companies and, as a result, are boosting the country’s presence in the market
At the Pharmaceutical Forum of the EAEU and CIS countries held in Moscow in late February 2018, the Director of the Department of Technical Regulation and Accreditation of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEС) said that the full-scale work on registration of medicines using the unified information system of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will start […]
The Asia Pacific 100 2017 report consists of 80 pages of exclusive data and analysis on the region’s 100 largest firms. It is the most comprehensive guide to the top legal advisers in the region’s key markets. It provides useful information for international firms that are looking to expand into the region or seeking to […]
Despite China’s economic growth having reached its slowest in 25 years last year, the country’s leading law firms continued their strong pace of revenue growth. The China Elite 2016 report singles out the top 30 firms by annual turnover and provides a year-on-year comparison on their results. This year, it also takes a special look at […]