Ridgeland, Mississippi-based firm Butler Snow has opened an office in Singapore.

London partner Kurt Rademacher has relocated to run the firm's second international outpost in the Southeast Asian city-state. Every other week, Rademacher will also spend time in Hong Kong, where the firm has rented work space and facility but has not launched a formal office.

Rademacher is the only lawyer in the Singapore office for now, but he says the goal is to have at least five lawyers in Singapore and five lawyers in Hong Kong in the next two years.