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Asia Pacific Legal Market Summary And Partner Moves - September 2017

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(As excerpted from our monthly Associate Newsletter - Asia Pacific)

Associate Newsletter – Asia Pacific is a monthly resource that reports current legal market news, trends, partner moves and active opportunities in the Asia Pacific legal markets.

Legal Market Summary

HONG KONG

Summer has not slowed down the legal recruitment market. International law firms remain busy with their deal flow and this leads to continue hiring needs. The needs are arising from replacement and growth reasons. Asset management, conveyance and dispute resolution are the areas we see growth hires and corporate and banking teams include a lot of replacement hires. We foresee the recruitment market will remain busy for the rest of the year.

SINGAPORE

The Singapore market continues to garner interest from lawyers based regionally and globally as an exciting and technically challenging legal hub. Arbitration and projects work remains steady; however, some well-established teams are feeling the pressure as more firms enter an already competitive market. For growth roles (as opposed to replacement roles), we have found the hiring process slightly longer of late, which may be for several reasons. Hiring partners are waiting for confirmation of winning work for which they pitched before hiring new associates as well as the continual requests by existing MNC clients to reduce outside counsel costs. Associates with experience in white collar crime are highly sought after at many US and UK firms in the city state.

CHINA

Having recently visited our clients in China, the market remains steady with some opportunities at a few firms. Law firms are largely focused on IPO work with a Hong Kong link, so for associates looking to be at the forefront of high-profile deals, it is worth considering relocating to Beijing. Law firms are building domestic networks and tapping into opportunities to list overseas by leveraging their regional and US office connections. Other areas such as finance and IP are busy, too, both in Beijing and Shanghai. China is a good option for ambitious associates who want to build up their own client base and progress quickly in a moving market.

SEOUL

Seoul has had a small spike in opportunities from international firms in the corporate space this month. Firms are looking for excellent experience with US qualification and experience in the US at a top tier firm. However, firms are open to more junior associates joining spending time overseas to fulfil the FLC requirements before joining the Seoul office.

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Recent Partner Moves in Asia Pacific

Partners

Practice

To

From

Location

Charles Chau

Mergers and Acquisitions

Jones Day

Morrison & Foerster

Hong Kong

Bertie Mehigan

Restructuring and Insolvency

Mehigan LLP (Owner)

Howse Williams Bowers (Registered Foreign Lawyer)

Hong Kong

Cori Lable

Global Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations

Kirkland & Ellis

Ropes & Gray

Hong Kong

Douglas Murning

Leverage Finance

DLA Piper

Kirkland & Ellis

Hong Kong and London

Alan Linning

Litigation

Mayer Brown JSM

Sidley Austin

Hong Kong

Raymond Wong

International Corporate

Seyfarth Shaw

King & Wood Mallesons

Hong Kong

Etelka Bogardi

Corporate

Norton Rose Fulbright

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (Senior Counsel)

Hong Kong

Charles Mo

Litigation

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Winston & Strawn

Hong Kong

Joe Tam

Banking

Zhong Lun Law Firm

Mayer Brown JSM

Hong Kong

Jenny Zhong

Compliance

JunHe

Rui Bai

Beijing

Matthew Durham

Employment

Simmons & Simmons

Winston & Strawn

Shanghai

May Lu

Employment

Simmons & Simmons

MWE China Law Offices

Shanghai

Kunal Kapoor

Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance

Dentons Rodyk & Davidson

Ashurst

Singapore

Bill Gibson

Leasing and Financing Transactions

Vedder Price, Singapore

Dentons, London

Singapore

Sundaram Subramaniam

Litigation and Disputes Resolution

RHTLaw Taylor Wessing

Bogaars & Din

Singapore

Gavin Margetson

Dispute Resolution

Berwin Leighton Paisner

Herbert Smith Freehills

Singapore

Shobna Chandran

Litigation

Dentons Rodyk & Davidson

Clifford Chance (Senior Associate)

Singapore

Isaac West

Corporate

Jones Day

McCullough Robertson

Brisbane

Patrick O’Grady

Restructuring and Banking and Finance

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Henry Davis York

Sydney

Cameron Cheetham

Restructuring and Banking and Finance

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Henry Davis York

Sydney

Craig Ensor

Restructuring and Banking and Finance

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Henry Davis York

Sydney

Ben Emblin

Restructuring and Banking and Finance

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Henry Davis York

Sydney

Michael Catchpoole

Restructuring and Banking and Finance

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Henry Davis York

Sydney

Bryan Pointon

Mergers and Acquisitions

PricewaterhouseCoopers

DLA Piper

Sydney

Kon Mellos

Private Equity

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Herbert Smith Freehills

Melbourne

David Fixler

Intellectual Property

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

King & Wood Mallesons

Melbourne

Jeremy Lynn Chagas Pereira

Dispute Resolution

DMD Advocates

S&R Associates

Mumbai

These listed partner moves are obtained from both public sources and Major, Lindsey & Africa. This list is not intended to represent Major, Lindsey & Africa as the consultancy involved in the moves, although some moves may have been brokered by Major, Lindsey & Africa.

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