Law Firm Office Closures

Closure of eight-lawyer office next year to leave Akin with Hong Kong as sole branch in Asia

Decision to close arbitration-focused outpost after 10 years follows ‘routine review’

Firm hires of counsel Olivia Girouad from Globalization Partners to support launch

Move follows Cleary Gottlieb’s announcement in May that it will exit Frankfurt this year

Team’s exit for Thomson Geer result of Ashurst scaling back work for Australian government

Closure follows departure of senior partners from shrinking office in recent years

Closure leaves US firm with eight overseas offices, all in in Europe

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

New York firm to focus China coverage in Hong Kong

Cuts to affect 14 equity partners and all three German offices, according to reports

End of partnership with Witara Cakra Advocates means US firm will no longer have an on-the-ground presence in Indonesia

Closure follows office head Shaobin Zhu defecting to DLA Piper last year

Move follows transatlantic firm’s announcement in September that it was shuttering its Warsaw office

Paul Weiss has also called time on its Beijing arm this week as exodus of US firms continues

Wall Street leader is 13th US firm to close an office in China this year