In this news update, it shows the latest moves within the legal industry.
Hong Kong / China
Singapore Big Four law firm Rajah & Tann has added Michelle Li to its Shenzhen office as the new head of its international arbitration, construction and projects practices in China from Herbert Smith Freehills. (ALB, 1 Jan 2025)
PRC law firm Han Kun has bolstered its capital markets practice in Hong Kong after hiring Alex Tao as a partner from Milbank. (ALB, 6 Jan 2025)
PRC law firm Han Kun Law Offices has bolstered its corporate practice in Hong Kong after hiring seasoned M&A lawyer Melody He as a partner from Ashurst. (ALB, 8 Jan 2025)
Global law firm Ashurst has strengthened its Hong Kong investment funds and asset management practice by hiring James Ford, a former managing partner of O’Melveny’s Hong Kong office, as a partner from A&O Shearman. (ALB, 7 Jan 2025)
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has hired Karen Lam as a partner and head of its Hong Kong securitisation and derivatives practice China from Magic Circle firm Linklaters, where she spent the entirety of her two-decade-long career. (ALB, 7 Jan 2025)
Anglo-German law firm CMS has hired Steven Tran, a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Singapore-based corporate practice, as a partner in Hong Kong to oversee M&A and private equity transactions across Asia. (ALB, 7 Jan 2025)
Hong Kong law firm CFN Lawyers has continued to strengthen its team with the addition of corporate partner Patrick Wong, who joins from U.S. firm Reed Smith. (ALB, 8 Jan 2025)
U.S. law firm Morrison Foerster has hired private equity and U.S. public M&A expert Xiaoxi Lin as a partner in its Hong Kong office from Linklaters, making its second lateral hire in the private equity space in Asia within just a week. (ALB, 13 Jan 2025)
Hong Kong law firm PC Woo & Co. has appointed two new managing partners: Litigator Calvin Chow, who returns after a one-year stint at the offshore firm Harneys, and Gary Wong, a long-standing corporate partner at the firm. (ALB, 14 Jan 2025)
Singapore
Singapore boutique Providence Law Asia has hired Daniel Tan, a former partner at Shook Lin & Bok, as director and head of its restructuring and insolvency practice. (ALB, 3 Jan 2025)
Singapore law firm Eugene Thuraisingam has welcomed back litigator Jerrie Tan as a partner from K&L Gates Straits Law, where she was a counsel. (ALB, 7 Jan 2025)
Singapore boutique Lighthouse Law has bolstered its dispute resolution and white-collar crime capabilities after adding a team led by litigator Muslim Albakri. Albakri was most recently running its own practice, Albakri LLC. (ALB, 7 Jan 2025)
Private client-focused firm Charles Russell Speechlys (CRS) has continued the rapid expansion of its Singapore office after hiring corporate lawyer Tun Zaw Mra as a partner from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP). (ALB, 7 Jan 2025)
U.S. law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has hired Hagen Rooke as a partner in its financial regulatory practice group in Singapore from Reed Smith, where he had been a partner since 2022. (ALB, 9 Jan 2025)
Global law firm Morrison Foerster has announced that private equity veteran Scott Jalowayski will rejoin the firm as a partner in Singapore. Jalowayski most recently co-chaired the global private equity group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. (ALB, 10 Jan 2025)
Singapore disputes and advisory boutique Sreenivasan Chambers, launched last August by former K&L Gates Straits Law managing partner Sreenivasan Narayan SC, has deepened its disputes bench with the addition of five attorneys. (ALB, 27 Jan 2025)
