Transfer Window Asia: recent moves including Cleary Gottlieb, Ashurst and DLA Piper
Further hires for White & Case, King & Wood Mallesons, and Morrison & Foerster
August 02, 2015 at 07:03 PM
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Simmons & Simmons has hired Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft corporate partner Joseph Lee into its Hong Kong office.
The corporate finance and securities transactions specialist re-joins Simmons, after having practiced at the firm between 2004 and 2006.
Cadwalader financial markets partner David Neuville, who practiced at Simmons with Lee, also re-joined the firm last month. The pair bring with them a team of associates who will join over the coming weeks.
Pinsent Masons has hired King & Spalding's infrastructure disputes specialist Peter Megens to join the firm's Melbourne office. The hire coincides with the opening of the firm's Australia offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
Megens has advised on a number of high profile projects including the Melbourne CityLink Project and the Melbourne train network. He has relocated from Singapore to join the partnership.
Baker & McKenzie has hired Joel Greer from White & Case in Tokyo. Greer, who has joined the firm's dispute resolution practice as a partner and has experience representing Japanese multinational companies in international disputes across various sectors. In addition to international arbitration, he assists clients with mediation and complex, multi-jurisdictional litigation.
Sherman & Sterling's capital markets partner Shuang Zhao is set to leave the firm for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Hong Kong. Zhao advises Chinese corporate clients on capital markets transactions in the US and Hong Kong. Her hire brings the firm's Asia partner headcount to nine.
Clifford Chance has hired finance partner Richard Gordon from Allens, Linklaters' alliance firm in Australia, in Sydney. Gordon's practice focuses on transactions including acquisition finance, project and infrastructure finance, real estate finance and funds. Gordon is the second lateral hire Clifford Chance has made in Australia this year after hiring litigator Jenni Hill from Norton Rose Fulbright in Perth.
Jones Day has hired Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe M&A partner Elizabeth Cole to join the firm's Singapore office. Cole is relocating from Orrick's Hong Kong office to join Jones Day.
She has experience throughout the Asia-Pacific region, having worked in Brisbane, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Melbourne, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. Cole brings Jones Day's partner headcount in Singapore to 14.
Prior to joining Orrick, Cole was the managing partner of Deacons' Shanghai office.
Fenwick & West has hired Latham & Watkins corporate partner Karen Lam who is joining the firm in Shanghai. The US-headquartered firm has also hired corporate counsel Alexandra Yin from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in Shanghai and associate Liz Qin from Ropes & Gray.
DLA Piper has appointed a new Asia head of internal investigations. New York partner, Karl Buch, is transferring to the litigation and regulatory group of the Hong Kong office. Buch is taking on the new role to work alongside compliance and investigations partner Sammy Fang.
King & Wood Mallesons has hired the former co-head of energy and resources group at Allens to join the firm in Melbourne. Scott Langford will join the firm as a partner on 1 August. Langford joins the firm from an in-house role as general counsel and company secretary of Newcrest Mining Limited.
Winston & Strawn's Asia litigation head Adrian Yip is jumping ship to Morrison & Foerster, where he will work in the firm's Hong Kong office. Yip's practice focuses on Hong Kong and China-facing cross-border disputes and commercial litigation.
The firm has also hired dispute associates Cliff Mok, Gary Yu Zeng, and Jessica Chan from Winston & Strawn who will join MoFo alongside Yip.
White & Case has expanded its Asia private equity offering with the hire of Linklaters associate Jonathan Bowden who joins the firm in Singapore as a partner.
Bowden's practice focuses on private equity transactions in Singapore and across Southeast Asia.
Ashurst has hired a projects partner from Allen & Overy in Jakarta. Andrew Digges is relocating to Singapore from Jakarta where he was a consultant with A&O's associated firm Ginting & Reksodiputro to join the firm. Digges worked for A&O in Singapore before re-locating to Jakarta in 2011.
His practice focuses on project development and project finance in the region.
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