Asia/Hong Kong

Withers promotes 16 partners in global round as US dominates

Expanded round sees firm achieve 50:50 gender split

  • 21h

Former Sidley, Kirkland practice leaders join recently launched Alvarez & Marsal-linked firm in Hong Kong

Gordon Davidson and Fergus Saurin sign up with Broadfield alongside five more hires across Hong Kong and London

  • 1d

Reed Smith hires A&O Shearman trio across Singapore, Hong Kong

A&O Shearman’s joint Singapore managing partner Tim Beech moves over with newly-minted partner Regina Lui and an associate to boost US firm’s global corporate trust team

  • 1mo

Blackstone Chambers junior to take silk in Hong Kong

Tim Parker will be appointed Senior Counsel in June; but another international judge has left the Court of Final Appeal

  • 2mos

Eversheds Sutherland’s international arm makes up 23 partners

UK network dominates in latest promotion round – a significantly reduced cohort compared to 2024

  • 2mos

Japan’s Miura & Partners marks Hong Kong office launch

Office set to open this summer follows firm’s recent launches in US, Malaysia and Thailand

  • 3mos

BCLP to close in Hong Kong and Singapore as it plans Asia ‘wind-down’

Firm says it will continue to service its clients’ Asia needs through associate firm network

  • 3mos

CMS merges with Hong Kong alliance firm

Tie-up to create 40-lawyer practice contrasts with wider scaling back of China operations by large international law firms

  • 4mos

IBA to explore cross-border law opportunities at Asia Pacific Regional Forum

Biennial forum is taking place in Hong Kong this week and features sessions on arbitration and cross-border M&A

  • 4mos

Herbert Smith Freehills makes twin disputes hire in Hong Kong from Kirkland, Latham

Paul Quinn and Truman Mak join as partners in the firm’s commercial litigation team

  • 4mos

Malaysia sovereign fund 1MDB files legal claim over $1bn alleged fraud

BVI action against Hong Kong company alleges ‘dissipation of billions of dollars in stolen funds’

  • 6mos

Lawyers among 45 pro-democracy activists sentenced to prison by Hong Kong court

Western governments and human rights groups condemn city’s largest national security prosecution to date

  • 7mos

Kennedy succeeds Neuberger as chair of international media freedom panel

Appointment follows controversy over Lord Neuberger’s decision to continue as a judge on Hong Kong’s Court of Final of Appeal

  • 8mos

DAC Beachcroft debuts in Hong Kong with new office and association

Top 50 UK firm bucks trend of law firms pulling out of the city

  • 9mos

Neuberger resigns from media freedom panel over Hong Kong judicial role

Decision follows court’s controversial rejection of appeal by pro-democracy demonstrators

  • 10mos

Dechert shuts Frankfurt arm ahead of impending Chicago, Beijing and Hong Kong closures

Top 40 US firm closed office in April leaving it with a single German base in Munich

  • 1yr

Former Canadian chief justice is latest judge to step down from Hong Kong’s top court

Beverley McLachlin announces her retirement from the Court of Final Appeal as Lord Sumption speaks out against Hong Kong’s rule of law

  • 1yr

Two retired UK judges resign from Hong Kong’s top court

Decision of Lords Collins and Sumption comes amid mounting concern over rule of law

  • 1yr

Mayer Brown agrees to split from Hong Kong partnership citing 'strategic priorities'

US firm will continue to operate in Hong Kong, but bulk of office will resurrect historic Johnson Stokes & Master brand

  • 1yr

Understanding green trademarks in China and Hong Kong

As green marks grow in advertising, DLA Piper lawyers Elizabeth Wong and Liam Blackford provide guidance on trademark rules in China and Hong Kong

  • 1yr
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