Singapore.Another Lawyer Leaves RPC's Singapore Joint Law Venture
RPC Premier Law director Erlene Tan joins Withers KhattarWong. An eight-lawyer disputes team also is leaving the firm, joining Singapore's Drew & Napier.
May 14, 2019 at 03:06 PM
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Just as an eight-lawyer team prepares to leave RPC Premier Law, the joint law venture of U.K. firm RPC in Singapore, another lawyer has left the firm—this time for Withers.
Director Erlene Tan is joining Withers KhattarWong as a partner in the city-state. She focuses on advising family-owned companies in Indonesia and Singapore on corporate and commercial matters, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, regulatory, debt restructuring and finance.
She joined Singapore firm Premier Law in 2013 as an associate and stayed through its joint law venture with RPC in 2016; she was promoted to director the following year. Previously, Tan was a senior in-house lawyer at Singaporean developer CapitaLand Ltd.
"Erlene's focus on businesses owned by Indonesian families resonates with our core strategy of expanding the personal and business services we provide to private wealth in the region," Jeremy Wakeham, the London-based chief executive of Withers' business division, said in a statement.
Withers merged with its Formal Law Alliance partner firm KhattarWong in Singapore earlier this year and has been expanding in Asia over the past few years. Recent hires include dispute resolution partners Soo Khim Keoy in Hong Kong and Amarjit Kaur in Singapore, who join from Baker McKenzie and Morgan Lewis Stamford, respectively; and nine lawyers for its Tokyo office.
Meanwhile, Tan leaves RPC Premier Law as an eight-lawyer disputes team, led by partner and disputes head Siraj Omar, is leaving to join local firm Drew & Napier on July 1.
The Singapore departures will leave RPC with seven lawyers in the city-state, including insurance partners Mark Errington and Iain Anderson. Errington launched RPC's Singapore office in 2011.
RPC also has suffered mass departures in Hong Kong, the firm's only other Asian office, where a total of 16 lawyers, including three partners, have left the firm since last June.
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