Steptoe & Johnson announced that they have opened a new office in Beijing, their first foray into Asia. International trade partner Eric Emerson relocated to Beijing to assume the role of managing partner at the new office. Susan Munro, former counsel to O’Melveny & Myers’ Shanghai office, will join Emerson. She has experience in corporate [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
SJ Berwin’s 12th office and 2nd office in East Asia has opened in Shanghai. The Shanghai office will focus on Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate, and other core practice areas. This is SJ Berwin’s 3rd expansion this year. In April, the firm opened an office in Dubai and in Marchit launched an [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 6, 2009
Diaz Reus & Targ has launched a new office in Shanghai, China. Firm partners Robert Q. Lee and Adam Ehrlich will manage the office. They are joined by associates Federico Tabja, Xiaomin Hu and Xin Zhang. Miami, Florida-based Diaz Reus & Targ LLP focuses on trade and business transactions; complex commercial, civil, and criminal litigation; and arbitration [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
DLA Piper announced today it is laying off 20 lawyers and 34 staff across its Asian offices, in response to the global economic meltdown. DLA Piper has in recent years built up one of the largest Asia practices of any international law firm, with offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Bangkok. The majority of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
First LA’s Paul Hastings announced the layoff of 10 Atlanta associates. Now tipsters tell Above the Law that the firm is holding stealth layoffs today at its Los Angeles HQ. I just wanted to let you know that stealth layoffs are ongoing at Paul Hastings. Rumor has it that the grim reaper is making rounds to many [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 27, 2009
London’s Eversheds is opening of a new office in Singapore, and beginning work on developing a presence in Hong Kong. The firm has recruited DLA Piper’s former Singapore managing partner Desmond Ong to head up the new operation. Ong, a corporate and litigation lawyer, quit as DLA’s Singapore chief last November. The Singapore office will be Eversheds’ [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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JDJournal’s A. Harrison Barnes just emailed me: I just spoke with a candidate from the China office of a large US firm, and was told that “corporate practices are VERY slow in Hong Kong and Shanghai, despite what you are reading on blogs. Firms are slow and laying capital markets associates [...]
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