White & Case set to hire Linklaters Hong Kong partner Kelly
Linklaters Hong Kong corporate partner set to join White & Case as firm continues to build practice
February 01, 2016 at 06:35 AM
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Linklaters corporate partner Christopher Kelly is set to join White & Case in Hong Kong.
The move, which is not thought to have been formally agreed, will reunite him with former Linklaters partner Peggy Wang who joined White & Case in April 2015.
Kelly, who focuses on corporate finance, M&A and general corporate work, was one of three Asia partners to retire from the Linklaters' partnership last month. Fellow partners Jeremy Webb and Dean Lockhart also stepped down from the partnership, though their next moves are unclear.
Linklaters has seen a number of exits in Asia over the last year.
In March capital markets partner David Ludwick left to join Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
US qualified capital markets partner Jon Gray left in June to join Davis Polk & Wardwell in Tokyo and, in September, finance partner David Irvine left to join Kirkland & Ellis in Hong Kong.
White & Case has been building up its corporate and private equity practice since hiring Linklaters buyout duo Ian Bagshaw and Richard Youle in 2013, with the firm making a number of hires since.
In addition to its hire of Wang and forthcoming recruitment of Kelly, the US firm boosted its London private equity team in October last year with the hire of Caroline Sherrell from Clifford Chance and senior associate Kenneth Barry from Debevoise & Plimpton.
Last year Bagshaw and Youle were made co-heads of White & Case's global private equity group as part of a wider private equity push that fits in with a firm-wide strategy focused on building up a number of key sectors as well as growing London and New York more generally.
Earlier this year White & Case Asia head Eric Berg gave an interview to Legal Week about the impact of the firm's strategy on Asia.
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