Who is “Daisy Wong”? In the breezy blog that she writes about Hong Kong’s legal scene, she claims to be a young female associate at one of the city’s top law firms. While some readers have begun to wonder whether Daisy is actually a fictional creation, they think she’s dropped enough clues to identify the firm that’s the focus of her stories.
According to six attorneys who work in the local offices of U.S. and U.K. firms, Daisy is apparently gossiping about the Hong Kong outpost of London’s Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. These readers speculate that some of the key characters in Daisy’s blog may be based on partners in the Freshfields branch. Antony Dapiran, a former Freshfields partner who joined the Hong Kong office of Davis Polk & Wardwell last year, says, “A few of the deals that the writer described on her blog were similar to the ones that Freshfields was doing at different times.” Dapiran says that while he doesn’t read the blog himself, he’s been told what’s in it by other readers.
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