Appointments

  • Ropes & Gray take IP specialist from Hogan Lovells in Shanghai
    By Cecilia Liu | Wednesday, 7 September 2011

    Ropes & Gray has appointed Geoffrey Lin as a partner in its Shanghai office. Lin, who is an intellectual property lawyer with more than six years experience in advising clients on non-contentious and contentious IP matters across the region, joins the firm from the Shanghai office of Hogan Lovells

  • Pinsent Masons targets Hong Kong IPO work with ONC lateral
    By ALB | Thursday, 11 August 2011

    Pinsent Masons has hired Kenneth Chong as a partner for its Hong Kong office. Chong, who join the firm’s corporate department, joins the firm from local Hong Kong firm ONC Lawyers and will bring his team of senior associate Sylvia Zee and Jackie Liu with him.

  • MoFo takes Moore from Herbert Smith for US/Asia ECM practice
    By ALB | Tuesday, 19 July 2011

    Moore, who joins the firm as a partner in its corporate & capital markets practice, is also currently serving as the Deputy Chairman of the Listing Committee of the Main Board of the Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and has acted on some of the region’s largest listings of the past few years.

  • Jones Day brings X'mas cheer to 36 new partners
    By Pamela Hamer-Koh | Wednesday, 22 December 2010

    US-based firm Jones Day has promoted 36 lawyers to its global partnership this week, a third of whom are in offices outside the US and a quarter of whom are female. Those promoted include Joe Bauerschmidt in Singapore, John Lin in Taipei and Sebastien Evrard and Ian Lian both in Beijing.

  • Mayer Brown JSM foresees more PRC employment work with new hire
    By Yun Zhang | Friday, 6 August 2010

    Against a challenging background for employers in China, Mayer Brown JSM has enhanced its offerings with the addition of PRC employment specialist Susan Deng, previously a senior legal counsel of Standard Chartered Bank (China).

  • Rocky Lee trades DLA Piper for Cadwalader
    By Jessica Seah | Thursday, 10 June 2010

    Rocky Lee has left his position as head of China venture capital and PE practice at DLA Piper to become Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s Asia managing partner and head of Greater China corporate practice.

  • King & Wood lures Clifford Chance's Beijing chief (2 comments)
    By Yun Zhang | Tuesday, 11 May 2010

    Yet another partner has moved from an international to a local firm. Rupert Li, previously the Beijing chief representative and partner of Clifford Chance, has swapped his partnership at the magic circle firm for a senior management position with domestic powerhouse King & Wood.

  • Paul Hastings loses two; gains Hogan’s Beijing MP
    By Jessica Seah | Thursday, 6 May 2010

    Hot on the heels of losing Hong Kong partner Joe Sevack to Troutman Sanders, Paul Hastings has appointed former managing partner of Hogan & Hartson’s Beijng office, Roger Peng, as partner in its Beijing office.

  • Vietnam: Indochine welcomes first female partner
    By ALB | Thursday, 6 May 2010

    ALB Fast 30 firm Indochine Counsel has made up its first female partner. Ms Nguyen Thi Hong Anh, who as a senior associate has led the firm's IP & technology practice since its establishment in 2007, becomes the firm's fifth partner overall.

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