Allen & Overy has said that it has asked four of its Hong Kong partners to leave the firm for economic reasons.
The cuts come amid a continuing slowdown in Hong Kong capital markets activity, which had driven large-scale expansions in the region by many firms less than a year before. Campbell McIlroy, a spokesman for the British Magic Circle firm, said the firm is responding to economic conditions but was not “hitting the panic button.”
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