Winston & Strawn has hired Ge Xiangyang from Baker & McKenzie LLP. Xiangyang will be in charge of the firm’s new Beijing office. Winston & Strawn took over the Beijing and Shanghai offices from deceased firm Heller Ehrman LLP. Xiangyang focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions.
Source: www.bloomberg.com
Tags: Baker & McKenzie LLP | Beijing
Jackson Lewis is launching a Cincinnati office with the help of a few top lawyers from nearby firms. Scott Carroll, most recently a partner with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, will be in charge. David Montgomery and Katharine Weber join as partners from Keating Muething & Klekamp and Cors and Bassett respectively.
Source: www.cincinnati.bizjournals.com
Tags: Jackson Lewis P.C.
An Intellectual Property litigator has jumped from DLA Piper to Jones Day. Randy Kay has landed at the firm’s San Diego office after speding 20 years at DLA Piper. He is the second partner to laterally land at the San Diego office in two weeks.
Source. www.sddt.com
Tags: DLA PiperThe international offices of our nations largest law firms were hit drastically by the recession in 2009. DLA Piper for instance, laid off 10.6% of its London office. In 2008 the office had 424 attorneys and now has 379. Jones Day cut 18% of its Hong Kong office, going from 61 attorneys to 50. White & Case shut down its Bangkok, dismissing 44 attorneys.
Source: www.nylj.com
Blake Dawson has announced that it will not be merging with another UK firm and will instead focus on the Asia legal market. The firm plans to open an office in Tokyo in early 2010. The new firm will work closely with the office in Jakarta due to the increase of activity between Japan and Indonesia. The next step in the plan is to focus on the Australia market.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Tags: Tokyo
Ashurst has a list of six firms for the purpose of receiving referrals. The firm landed in the US in February of this year with the hiring of 11 structured finance partners from McKee Nelson. This is the first real attempt to get into the US market since its plan to merge with Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson failed about ten years ago.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Tags: Ashurst
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP has hired Mark Young for its New York office. Young previously worked for Foley Hoag LLP as chief marketing officer. He joins Sonnenschein as CMO.
Source: www.boston.bizjournals.com
Tags: Foley Hoag LLP | New York
Two partners have left Linklaters for its Indian friend firm, Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA). Narayan Iyer, a project finance partner, joins from Singapore and corporate partner, Kunal Thakore, joins from Hong Kong. They are both equity partners at their new firm.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Tags: Linklaters | Singapore
The Manhattan prosecutor who won the case against Bernard Madoff with the maximum punishment of 150 years is joining Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Lev Dassin will be based in the firm’s New York office. He will focus his practice on white-collar crime and enforcement cases, as well as commercial civil litigation.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Tags: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | New YorkRobert here, writing from New York. Apologies for no new post for a few weeks. It was an extremely busy October, including multiple trips to NYC and Asia (and those trips are of course continuing, with two more NYC and one Hong Kong trip scheduled over the next few weeks).
I will be in Hong Kong again from November 21 to December 5, so feel free to reach out if you would like to meet up with me there. For the law student readers out there, on November 19 I will be participating in a seminar in NYC sponsored by the China Business Lawyers Association and the Asia Law Society of NYU. The event’s target audience will be law students who are interested in future biglaw careers in Asia. While I don’t always have time available (I wish I did) to talk to each of the many law students that reach out to us about future potential careers in Asia, events like this can be very helpful for those interested. The event’s sponsors have done a great job of securing speakers / participants for the seminar, including a few law firm partners and myself.
It has been a solid past couple of weeks for us in Hong Kong, with one partner placement and three associate placements. There has also been a lot more interview activity recently in Asia, especially in HK / China, so we are expecting more results for our associate candidate clients in the short-term.
Tags: Asia | Hong Kong