Eversheds Adds Hong Kong Technology Practice Leader From Big Four's PwC
Rhys McWhirter leaves PwC's Hong Kong affiliate law firm Tiang & Partners—part of the first string of departures from the firm since its 2017 launch and aggressive expansion last year.
April 16, 2019 at 01:50 PM
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Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour
Eversheds Sutherland has hired Rhys McWhirter from the Big Four accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers' affiliate law firm in Hong Kong. At Eversheds, he will be a consultant and a leader of the firm's technology, media and telecommunications practice.
McWhirter focuses on information technology outsourcing, strategic procurement, digital asset offerings, data analytics and privacy, and tech-related mergers and acquisitions. He joins from Tiang & Partners, an affiliate of Singapore-based PwC Legal International Pte. Ltd., where he was a senior associate.
Before joining Tiang & Partners in 2017, McWhirter practised at Australian firm Gilbert + Tobin for three years in Sydney, and was in-house at Australia's Westpac Banking Corp. as legal counsel for two and a half years.
McWhirter's departure from Tiang & Partners comes as the PwC affiliate has been aggressively expanding, hiring 18 lawyers including six partners, since name partner David Tiang launched it in January 2017. The firm has brought on four of the partners – William Marshall, Martin Robertson, Rebecca Silli and Michelle Taylor – since April 2018.
Tiang & Partners has more recently experienced its first string of departures. Besides McWhirter, former associates Cliff Yung and Tina Wong left in December and September, respectively. Yung is now a legal tech delivery adviser at Clifford Chance and Wong is a banking and finance associate at Ashurst.
Last year, Eversheds lost its former Asia head of the commercial and TMT practice, Nigel Stamp, to K&L Gates.
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