DLA Piper has begun to rebuild its Singapore team with the hire of three partners from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Jones Day.

The Anglo-American firm, which has lost six partners in Singapore since mid-2012 including two office managing partners, amid a flurry of exits in the wider region, has added John Viverito and Myles Hankin from Gibson Dunn and Indonesia specialist Joseph Bauerschmidt from Jones Day, taking the number of partners in the city state from two to five as of today.

The three have previously worked together at Gibson Dunn prior to Bauerschmidt's exit, and were part of the team which launched the Los Angeles firm's Singapore office in 2008.

All US qualified, the new recruits will also boost DLA's US team in Asia. Another US partner to join the Asia practice in the last year was corporate expert Paul Chen, who transferred from the firm's Silicon Valley office and was made head of the Asia corporate group.

The firm previously told Legal Week it wanted to create more synergies between the American and Asia offices after it set up a US-led, three-partner Asia management committee in December 2013.

Among the senior departures since the announcement was the firm's former Asia head Bob Charlton, who moved to Berwin Leighton Paisner in September.

The new hires similarly bring some changes to the Asia management team.

Viverito, who specialises in general corporate and commercial work on infrastructure projects in the region, will take over the role of Singapore office managing partner from John Goulios, while Bauerschmidt, whose focus is capital markets and M&A, has been appointed to the newly-create role of head of capital markets for Southeast Asia, sitting across from Stephen Peepels, who is the head of US capital markets for Asia in Hong Kong.

Goulios will co-head the Asia insurance practice with Peter Shelford in Bangkok.

Hankin, an of counsel at Gibson, will not take a management role but continue with his current practice which includes work on energy and natural resources, infrastructure, project finance, construction, transportation and real estate work in emerging or growing markets such as Mongolia, Myanmar and Thailand.