CC recruits Latham partner to head Singapore funds practice
Clifford Chance (CC) has recruited Latham & Watkins partner Kai Schneider to lead the firm's funds team in Singapore. Schneider, who was previously based in Dubai as head of the US firm's funds practice for the Middle East and Africa, will join CC in Singapore to lead the funds and investment practice in the office, replacing Han Ming Ho, who is due to leave CC for Sidley Austin.
June 25, 2013 at 04:32 AM
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Clifford Chance (CC) has recruited Latham & Watkins partner Kai Schneider to lead the firm's funds team in Singapore.
Schneider, who was previously based in Dubai as head of the US firm's funds practice for the Middle East and Africa, will join CC in Singapore to lead the funds and investment practice in the office, replacing Han Ming Ho, who is due to leave CC for Sidley Austin.
Schneider, who has been at Latham since 2008, specialises in investment funds, joint ventures and private equity, as well as hedge, real estate, venture capital, mezzanine and distressed asset funds.
He has extensive experience advising clients on cross-border acquisitions and strategic alliances, and regularly acts for sponsors on accessing the US market as well as on regional licensing and securities laws. While based in the Middle East he developed a strong background in Shariah-compliant funds, and is currently chair of the regulatory committee of the Gulf Bond and Sukuk Association.
CC currently has seven funds partners in Asia located in Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Across Asia, the firm has been particularly focused on building up its offices in Australia and Singapore in the last year, with a number of lateral hires and promotions in these areas.
In January the firm hired antitrust partner Dave Poddar to join its Sydney office from Allen & Overy, which was its first lateral hire in Australia since the firm launched there in 2011, and was followed by the relocation of London finance partner Caroline Jury to Sydney in the same month.
In Singapore, it expanded its local office in December through a Formal Law Alliance with local outfit Cavenagh Law, giving it a total of 16 partners and 69 other legal staff on the ground.
The magic circle firm also made up two Singapore based lawyers in its annual partnership promotions in May – construction and infrastructure project finance specialist Matthew Buchanan and M&A corporate lawyer Melissa Ng.
Other recent appointments in Asia include the recruitment of maritime finance partner Alastair MacAulay in Hong Kong, who was previously head of finance for Asia at Mayer Brown JSM, and the promotion of banking and finance lawyer Jiahua Ni to partner in Shanghai in May.
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