EY's Hong Kong Law Firm Founder Leaves for Local Firm
Former managing partner Harry Lin leaves LC Lawyers, which he launched in 2015, and joins a local boutique firm as a consultant.
July 31, 2019 at 12:42 PM
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The founder and former managing partner of Big Four accounting firm EY's affiliated Hong Kong law firm has left after a year of rapid growth.
Harry Lin, who specialises in mergers and acquisitions and capital market transactions, joins local commercial boutique Chungs Lawyers as a consultant. Lin leaves EY after more than four years in association with the auditing giant. Previously, he practised at local firms as a partner at Li & Partners and head of the China practice at Fred Kan & Co.
In 2015, Lin launched Lin and Associates and formed an association with EY. After several years of relative stagnation, EY – along with its Big Four rivals – started to aggressively expand its legal services arm in Hong Kong last year.
In early 2018, corporate partner Rossana Chu joined Lin and Associates with three other lawyers, including energy partner Lynia Lau, from Troutman Sanders after the U.S. firm decided to close its offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. Chu joined as co-managing partner of the firm with Lin, and the firm name changed to LC Lawyers.
Since then, three more partners have joined from two other Am Law 100 firms – Paul Hastings and Dechert. LC Lawyers now has 15 lawyers, including six partners. Corporate lawyer Kelly Ho is the sole partner at LC Lawyers who was there before it was rebranded, joining in early 2017.
EY still has plans to expand LC Lawyers. In April, EY Law's Singapore-based Asia-Pacific leader, Dmitry Tetiouchev, told The Asian Lawyer that the firm is looking to add a broad technology practice. And earlier this month, EY Law launched in Shenzhen, a Chinese technology hub just across the border from Hong Kong, by merging with local firm Guangdong Allied Law Firm.
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